Re: [osg-users] Open source projects for eye tracking

2009-08-08 Thread Gerwin de Haan
I asked Oleg Komogortsev, an eye-tracking researcher at Texas State University: here is what we use at the moment http://www.gazegroup.org/ , the quality of the results will depend on your camera hardware. But this is the best in my opinion at the moment. I briefly looked it up, and their GPL

Re: [osg-users] Open source projects for eye tracking

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Beckett
It's fairly easy to do in OpenCV using Haar trackers. OpenCV also handles all the webcam stuff for you fairly painlessly. See http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cpp/TrackEye.aspx for example. -- Read this topic online here: http://forum.openscenegraph.org/viewtopic.php?p=15968#15968

Re: [osg-users] Open source projects for eye tracking

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Beckett
Sorry forgot to add, OpenCV is C/C++, cross platfom is BSD licensed and works well with OSG. The documentation isn't bad and it's used by a lot of vision courses so quite a few tutorials out there. There is a good intro book from O'Reilly Martin -- Read this topic online

Re: [osg-users] Open source projects for eye tracking

2009-08-07 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi Martin, Thanks for the pointer. Have you use TrackEye yourself? Robert. On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Martin Beckettm...@mgbeckett.com wrote: It's fairly easy to do in OpenCV using Haar trackers. OpenCV also handles all the webcam stuff for you fairly painlessly. See

Re: [osg-users] Open source projects for eye tracking

2009-08-07 Thread Martin Beckett
No, other than running the demo. I once did something to automatically find pupil position/size for an opthalmic system but it didn't do gaze direction. One thing that was very useful (if you can control the environment) was to use an IR LED which reflects off the cornea and an IR sensitive