Simplified Eye Gesture Recognition for control of Assistive Devices

用于控制辅助设备的简化眼部手势识别

• 批准号: 7219094
• 负责人: PHILIP R SCHAEFER
• 金额: $ 12.36万
• 依托单位: VORTANT TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7219094
• 关键词: Address; Calibration; Communication; Communication Aids for Disabled; Communication impairment; Computer software; Computers; Data; Development; Devices; Electronics; Evaluation; Eye; Eyeglasses; Feedback; Future; Generations; Gestures; Glass; Government; Hospitals; Individual; Java; Lead; Measurement; Measures; Motion; Movement; Mus; Optics; Participant; Performance; Persons; Phase; Population; Positioning Attribute; Price; Purpose; Rehabilitation therapy; Research Project Grants; Self-Help Devices; Solutions; System; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Text; Training; United States; Update; Volunteer Group; base; computerized data processing; concept; cost; disability; gaze; impression; improved; next generation; rehabilitation technology; sensor; skills; usability; user-friendly; visual feedback

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This project aims to provide a simpler, more user-friendly system for eye-controlled communication and computer interaction. Although eye-tracking systems are currently available, the existing systems tend to be very expensive, typically costing thousands of dollars, and most importantly, are difficult to set up, calibrate, and use. In this project, we will develop an eye-based communication device that is much simpler and is easy to use. It will be based on detecting qualitative eye gestures for communication, rather than on precisely measuring eye position. In the future, this device holds promise to integrate well with advanced software we have identified for text generation, word selection, and disambiguation. In this project, we will first identify practical eye gestures with a consortium of practitioners, technologists, and users. We will then develop a proof-of-concept I-gesture device using low-cost optical and electronic components. Java-based software will be developed for the PC to enable realistic testing of the device. The proof-of-concept device will be tried by a group of volunteer participants with disabilities to show feasibility of the I-gesture technology, and preliminary cost estimates will be derived to help predict user acceptance of the device. More than one million people in the United States have communications disorders severe enough to require augmentative communications technology, and many tens of thousands have disabilities so severe that few alternatives other than eye-based communication is possible. However, existing eye tracker solutions tend to be difficult to use for many individuals. This project will result in a device that is much more practical for a significant proportion of this population, and also promises to be lighter, smaller, and competitively priced.

描述（由申请人提供）：该项目旨在提供一个更简单，更易于用户友好的系统，用于眼神交流和计算机交互。尽管目前可用令人眼前一亮的系统，但现有系统往往非常昂贵，通常花费数千美元，最重要的是，很难设置，校准和使用。在这个项目中，我们将开发一种基于眼睛的通信设备，该设备更简单且易于使用。它将基于检测定性眼手势进行通信，而不是精确测量眼睛位置。将来，该设备有望与我们确定的用于文本生成，单词选择和歧义的高级软件合理地集成。在这个项目中，我们将首先使用从业人员，技术人员和用户的财团来确定实用的眼球手势。然后，我们将使用低成本的光学和电子组件开发概念验证i-theed设备。将为PC开发基于Java的软件，以实现对设备的现实测试。概念验证设备将由一组残疾人志愿参与者尝试显示I-Esture技术的可行性，并将得出初步的成本估算，以帮助预测用户对设备的接受。在美国，有超过一百万的人患有足够严重的通信障碍，需要增强的通信技术，而且成千上万的残疾人如此严重，以至于除了基于眼睛的交流以外的其他替代方案是不可能的。但是，对于许多人来说，现有的眼动解决方案往往很难使用。该项目将导致该设备对于相当一部分人群而言更为实用，并且也有望更轻，更小且价格竞争性。