Realizing Fully-Integrated, Low-Power, Event-Based Pupil Tracking with Neuromorphic Hardware

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Auteurs principaux: Paredes-Valles, Federico, Miyatani, Yoshitaka, Scheper, Kirk Y. W.
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author Paredes-Valles, Federico
Miyatani, Yoshitaka
Scheper, Kirk Y. W.
author_facet Paredes-Valles, Federico
Miyatani, Yoshitaka
Scheper, Kirk Y. W.
contents Eye tracking is fundamental to numerous applications, yet achieving robust, high-frequency tracking with ultra-low power consumption remains challenging for wearable platforms. While event-based vision sensors offer microsecond resolution and sparse data streams, they have lacked fully integrated, low-power processing solutions capable of real-time inference. In this work, we present the first battery-powered, wearable pupil-center-tracking system with complete on-device integration, combining event-based sensing and neuromorphic processing on the commercially available Speck2f system-on-chip with lightweight coordinate decoding on a low-power microcontroller. Our solution features a novel uncertainty-quantifying spiking neural network with gated temporal decoding, optimized for strict memory and bandwidth constraints, complemented by systematic deployment mechanisms that bridge the reality gap. We validate our system on a new multi-user dataset and demonstrate a wearable prototype with dual neuromorphic devices achieving robust binocular pupil tracking at 100 Hz with an average power consumption below 5 mW per eye. Our work demonstrates that end-to-end neuromorphic computing enables practical, always-on eye tracking for next-generation energy-efficient wearable systems.
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spellingShingle Realizing Fully-Integrated, Low-Power, Event-Based Pupil Tracking with Neuromorphic Hardware
Paredes-Valles, Federico
Miyatani, Yoshitaka
Scheper, Kirk Y. W.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Eye tracking is fundamental to numerous applications, yet achieving robust, high-frequency tracking with ultra-low power consumption remains challenging for wearable platforms. While event-based vision sensors offer microsecond resolution and sparse data streams, they have lacked fully integrated, low-power processing solutions capable of real-time inference. In this work, we present the first battery-powered, wearable pupil-center-tracking system with complete on-device integration, combining event-based sensing and neuromorphic processing on the commercially available Speck2f system-on-chip with lightweight coordinate decoding on a low-power microcontroller. Our solution features a novel uncertainty-quantifying spiking neural network with gated temporal decoding, optimized for strict memory and bandwidth constraints, complemented by systematic deployment mechanisms that bridge the reality gap. We validate our system on a new multi-user dataset and demonstrate a wearable prototype with dual neuromorphic devices achieving robust binocular pupil tracking at 100 Hz with an average power consumption below 5 mW per eye. Our work demonstrates that end-to-end neuromorphic computing enables practical, always-on eye tracking for next-generation energy-efficient wearable systems.
title Realizing Fully-Integrated, Low-Power, Event-Based Pupil Tracking with Neuromorphic Hardware
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20175