FlatTrack: Eye-tracking with ultra-thin lensless cameras

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Auteurs principaux: Jain, Purvam, Nazar, Althaf M., Khan, Salman S., Mitra, Kaushik, Chakravarthula, Praneeth
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Publié: 2025
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author Jain, Purvam
Nazar, Althaf M.
Khan, Salman S.
Mitra, Kaushik
Chakravarthula, Praneeth
author_facet Jain, Purvam
Nazar, Althaf M.
Khan, Salman S.
Mitra, Kaushik
Chakravarthula, Praneeth
contents Existing eye trackers use cameras based on thick compound optical elements, necessitating the cameras to be placed at focusing distance from the eyes. This results in the overall bulk of wearable eye trackers, especially for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets. We overcome this limitation by building a compact flat eye gaze tracker using mask-based lensless cameras. These cameras, in combination with co-designed lightweight deep neural network algorithm, can be placed in extreme close proximity to the eye, within the eyeglasses frame, resulting in ultra-flat and lightweight eye gaze tracker system. We collect a large dataset of near-eye lensless camera measurements along with their calibrated gaze directions for training the gaze tracking network. Through real and simulation experiments, we show that the proposed gaze tracking system performs on par with conventional lens-based trackers while maintaining a significantly flatter and more compact form-factor. Moreover, our gaze regressor boasts real-time (>125 fps) performance for gaze tracking.
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spellingShingle FlatTrack: Eye-tracking with ultra-thin lensless cameras
Jain, Purvam
Nazar, Althaf M.
Khan, Salman S.
Mitra, Kaushik
Chakravarthula, Praneeth
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Existing eye trackers use cameras based on thick compound optical elements, necessitating the cameras to be placed at focusing distance from the eyes. This results in the overall bulk of wearable eye trackers, especially for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets. We overcome this limitation by building a compact flat eye gaze tracker using mask-based lensless cameras. These cameras, in combination with co-designed lightweight deep neural network algorithm, can be placed in extreme close proximity to the eye, within the eyeglasses frame, resulting in ultra-flat and lightweight eye gaze tracker system. We collect a large dataset of near-eye lensless camera measurements along with their calibrated gaze directions for training the gaze tracking network. Through real and simulation experiments, we show that the proposed gaze tracking system performs on par with conventional lens-based trackers while maintaining a significantly flatter and more compact form-factor. Moreover, our gaze regressor boasts real-time (>125 fps) performance for gaze tracking.
title FlatTrack: Eye-tracking with ultra-thin lensless cameras
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15450