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A new eye blink detection algorithm is proposed. It is based on analyzing the variance of the vertical motions in the eye region. The face and eyes are detected with a Viola–Jones type algorithm. Next, a flock of KLT trackers is placed over the eye region. For each eye, region is divided into \(3\times 3\) cells. For each cell an average “cell” motion is calculated. Simple state machines analyse the variances for each eye. The proposed method has lower false positive rate compared to other methods based on tracking. We introduce a new challenging dataset Eyeblink8. Our method achieves the best reported mean accuracy 99 % on the Talking dataset and state-of-the-art results on the ZJU dataset.
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Drutarovsky, T., Fogelton, A. (2015). Eye Blink Detection Using Variance of Motion Vectors. In: Agapito, L., Bronstein, M., Rother, C. (eds) Computer Vision - ECCV 2014 Workshops. ECCV 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8927. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_31
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