# eyeLike

**Repository Path**: yangdashi/eyeLike

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: eyeLike
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-04-08
- **Last Updated**: 2021-04-08

## Categories & Tags

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## README

## eyeLike
An OpenCV based webcam gaze tracker based on a simple image gradient-based eye center algorithm by Fabian Timm.

## DISCLAIMER
**This does not track gaze yet.** It is basically just a developer reference implementation of Fabian Timm's algorithm that shows some debugging windows with points on your pupils.

If you want cheap gaze tracking and don't mind hardware check out [The Eye Tribe](https://theeyetribe.com/).
If you want webcam-based eye tracking contact [Xlabs](http://xlabsgaze.com/) or use their chrome plugin and SDK.
If you're looking for open source your only real bet is [Pupil](http://pupil-labs.com/) but that requires an expensive hardware headset.

## Status
The eye center tracking works well but I don't have a reference point like eye corner yet so it can't actually track
where the user is looking.

If anyone with more experience than me has ideas on how to effectively track a reference point or head pose
so that the gaze point on the screen can be calculated contact me.

## Building

CMake is required to build eyeLike.

### OSX or Linux with Make
```bash
# do things in the build directory so that we don't clog up the main directory
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make
./bin/eyeLike # the executable file
```

### On OSX with XCode
```bash
mkdir build
./cmakeBuild.sh
```
then open the XCode project in the build folder and run from there.

### On Windows
There is some way to use CMake on Windows but I am not familiar with it.

## Blog Article:
- [Using Fabian Timm's Algorithm](http://thume.ca/projects/2012/11/04/simple-accurate-eye-center-tracking-in-opencv/)

## Paper:
Timm and Barth. Accurate eye centre localisation by means of gradients.
In Proceedings of the Int. Conference on Computer Theory and
Applications (VISAPP), volume 1, pages 125-130, Algarve, Portugal,
2011. INSTICC.

(also see youtube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aGmGyFLQAFM)