Dual-Cameras-Based Driver's Eye Gaze Tracking System with Non-Linear Gaze Point Refinement.

Sensors (Basel)

School of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026, China.

Published: March 2022

The human eye gaze plays a vital role in monitoring people's attention, and various efforts have been made to improve in-vehicle driver gaze tracking systems. Most of them build the specific gaze estimation model by pre-annotated data training in an offline way. These systems usually tend to have poor generalization performance during the online gaze prediction, which is caused by the estimation bias between the training domain and the deployment domain, making the predicted gaze points shift from their correct location. To solve this problem, a novel driver's eye gaze tracking method with non-linear gaze point refinement is proposed in a monitoring system using two cameras, which eliminates the estimation bias and implicitly fine-tunes the gaze points. Supported by the two-stage gaze point clustering algorithm, the non-linear gaze point refinement method can gradually extract the representative gaze points of the forward and mirror gaze zone and establish the non-linear gaze point re-mapping relationship. In addition, the Unscented Kalman filter is utilized to track the driver's continuous status features. Experimental results show that the non-linear gaze point refinement method outperforms several previous gaze calibration and gaze mapping methods, and improves the gaze estimation accuracy even on the cross-subject evaluation. The system can be used for predicting the driver's attention.

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