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Deconvolutional Neural Network for Pupil Detection in Real-World Environments

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Eyelid identification provides key data that can be used in several application such as controlling gaze-based HMIs (human machine interfaces), the design of new diagnostic tools for brain diseases, improving driver safety, drowsiness detection, research on advertisement, etc. We propose a novel eyetracking algorithm by learning a deep deconvolutional neural network. To train and test our method, we use several data sets with hand-labeled eye images from real-world tasks. Our method outperforms previous eye tracking methods, improving the results of the current state of the art in a 19%.

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This work was partially funded by project DPI2015-68664-C4-1-R of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and by Banco de Santander and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Funding Program for Excellence Research Groups ref. Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP). We gratefully acknowledge the support of NVIDIA Corporation with the donation of the Nvidia Tesla K40 GPU used for this research.

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Vera-Olmos, F.J., Malpica, N. (2017). Deconvolutional Neural Network for Pupil Detection in Real-World Environments. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo Moreo, J., Adeli, H. (eds) Biomedical Applications Based on Natural and Artificial Computing. IWINAC 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10338. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59773-7_23

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