April Makers Challenge #4/30: eyetrack

What: a webcam based system that tracks the gaze of a person. i know people have these things in proprietary systems all over the place - like with the Tobii system and a company actually called EyeGaze. hopefully when it is all said and done, it'll be a free program that only costs users a webcam to navigate their computer.

Objectives: track the iris on people, or track the averaged gaze (for those with lazy eyes).

How: mostly based off the demo video capture scripts in the examples off processsing. i might have to work off IR beams to get the specific color range - or use a reflective sticker that other systems use. after i get that down pat, then I can try and patch in to cursor control.

Application: something like what these dudes are doing. hopefully this can be nice and open source enough so that people can just download the code, go out and buy a webcam, and have accessible "mouse control". Huzzah!