Gaze-based interaction between human and computers has opened a potential domain of effortless supervision. The eye is one of the most important organs to perceive information from our surroundings and it can be the most conspicuous way to interact with computers. Therefore, in this research, a system model has been introduced to control the multimedia player with eye gaze using an economical webcam, as well as provides higher precision and robustness. The goal is to control the play, pause, forward and backward functions of a multimedia player. The click event was triggered by detecting the user’s eye blink.

Controlling Multimedia Player With Eye Gaze Using Webcam

Various results have been proposed in the past decades to capture the user‘s head motions through a camera to control the navigation of the mouse pointer to enable the people with disability in the movement to interact with computers. Movement of the facial feature is tracked to estimate the movement of the mouse cursor in the computer screen. Synchronizing the rate of movement of the head with the mouse cursor movement is identified as the challenge as the head movement is three dimensional but the sequence of images captured by the web camera is two dimensional. The proposed system is an innovative approach of capturing the three-dimensional head rotation through the usual web camera that captures the image in

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Controlling Mouse Navigation Through 3D Head Movement

Sixth sense can be defined as a wearable gestural interface that augments our physical world with the digital information and also lets us communicate with this information using natural hand gestures. Without any mechanical means humans can interface with the machine (HMI) and interact with them. As we know today, human- machine interaction is very important aspect for user friendliness. Most of the gadgets today use touch screen technology, but this is too often nowadays. [3] Till now everybody is using mouse to operate computers, but surveys have found that using mouse continuously can cause various health issues like carpel tunnel syndromes, repeated motion injuries etc. Also due to the short wire the area of reach is limited. People with crippled hands or fingers are not able to use computers as they cannot hold the mouse or control a touch pad. Considering these problems we put forth the idea of “FINGER CURSOR: SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY”, where you don't need to touch the screen or hold the mouse but can control the cursor by moving fingers in the atmosphere. Here we use a webcam as hardware and MATLAB as software. We implement our project using RGB (RED, GREEN, BLUE) caps. The computer interprets these caps and we can move the cursor accordingly. We capture real time videos which are converted into frames processed by extracting its RGB components, gray scale, binary and further evaluating its centroid. The mouse movements are carried out using the Robotic Class of Java. We also add features like screenshot and right click operation.

A paradigm of Sixth Sense: Finger Cursor

Recognition of Facial Patterns Using Surface Electromyography—A Preliminary Study

Controlling computer using eye movement

This paper presents a novel algorithm for controlling the movement of a computer screen cursor using the iris movement. By accurately detecting the position of the iris in the eye and mapping that to a specific position on the computer screen, the algorithm enables physically disabled individuals to control the computer cursor movement to the left, right, up and down. The algorithm also enables the person to open and close folders or files or applications through a clicking mechanism.

Maryam Mohamed Zubair

Papers

Eye-controlled mouse cursor for physically disabled individual