Eye gaze location detection based on iris tracking with web camera

In recent years, there has been an increased interest in human computer interaction systems where web cameras are used as input devices. In this study, a system developed to distinguish eye gaze locations on the screen by referring to the position of the iris part of the eye is introduced. It is aimed to distinguish more eye gaze location compared to the previous works by web cam. K-nearest neighbors classifier was used to detect eye gaze location by the feature vector of the iris center coordinates. As a result of the first experiments with 10 subjects, the 17 different eye gaze locations on the screen have classified with an average of 97.64% accuracy. It has been observed that only the two adjacent points near the center of the screen in the vertical direction are detected incorrectly. It is expected to increase the classification performance ratio by not using these two incorrectly detected points in future studies.