Smart Eye

Tag: Eye Tracking Applications

  • Introduction to Eye Tracking Technology

    Eye tracking is an innovative area of technology that is rapidly gaining traction. By analyzing people’s eye and head movements, we can uncover insights regarding participant behavior and mindset during a wide variety of situations. 

    These are just a few examples of how researchers are using eye tracking to gain a greater understanding of human behavior: 

    • Increasing the understanding of ocular disease and improve its treatment. 
    • Identifying various neurological conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder and Alzheimer’s disease. 
    • Training tomorrow’s pilots in aviation and aerospace by helping them correct their scanning techniques for future flights. 
    • Training train engineers to enhance train operation safety 
    • Improving automotive simulations and contributing to a greater understanding of human behavior in vehicles. 
    • Supporting people with limited mobility by assisting them to express their thoughts, needs, ideas and feelings through their eye movements in an effort to help improve their quality of life.

    The basic concept of optical eye tracking is capturing and analyzing usually infrared light reflected from the eye using remote cameras or another optical sensor. Mathematical calculations are then performed to determine where the eye was looking. 

    For example, this is how a camera-based, AI-powered eye tracking system (such as what Smart Eye develops) works:

    1. The first step is to provide our eye tracking systems with data to analyze. To capture images of the eye and other facial features, we use entirely camera-based monitoring. These cameras operate in the infrared spectrum and are therefore able to work in various lighting conditions. 
    2. Once the images have been extracted, they are run through software that tracks the person’s gaze and eye movements.  
    3. Meanwhile, AI-supported algorithms interpret the details of the face captured–like the person’s state of mind or mood. For every time the system identifies a face, it gets to know its unique characteristics a little better, enabling higher efficiency.

    Learn more about eye tracking in this download – A Guide to Selecting Eye Tracking Solutions.

  • A Guide to Selecting Eye Tracking Solutions

    Eye tracking is an innovative area of technology that is rapidly gaining traction. By analyzing people’s eye and head movements, we can uncover insights regarding participant behavior and mindset during a wide variety of situations. However, purchasing the right eye tracking system for your research can be a challenging process — there are many different types of eye tracking solutions with a wide range of features and capabilities available in market today. 

    Before you decide on an eye tracking solution, you should ask yourself a few simple questions: What environment will you be testing in? What type of measurement parameters and metrics are needed? How would you like to analyze and visualize the data? What advanced features or capabilities will be needed for your project? What is your budget? 

    Download our e-Book to get the answer to these questions  — and to find out all the details about the different eye tracing solutions, the importance of each, and which one would be the best fit for your needs.

  • Introducing: Smart Eye Pro 9.3

    120 Hz with unparalleled flexibility

    Size matters; at least when it comes to the instruments you bring into complex research environments. With its small footprint, Smart Eye Pro dx is the perfect eye tracker for situations that require a system that is as adaptable as it is advanced.

    Now, this unparalleled flexibility is combined with the accuracy and reduced delay of a higher sampling rate – resulting in Smart Eye Pro 9.3 with 120 Hz.

    Thanks to its compact size, Smart Eye Pro 9.3 is the 120 Hz solution that gives you the best of both worlds. Developed for the customers who have requested more data, better saccade detection, and better eyelid detection, but without compromising on the flexibility or high resolution of the dx camera.

    Watch our sales engineer Sebastian Johansson demonstrate and explain the new features and improvements of Smart Eye Pro 9.3:  

    The new features of Smart Eye Pro 9.3 include:

    • 120 Hz eye tracking with the smaller, non-intrusive Dx camera
    • More robust and accurate gaze tracking
    • Improved video recording performance and robustness
    • Reduced processor load for AI-X and Aurora cameras
    • Added RPC methods for toggling between adult or infant tracking
    • Upgraded to Basler Pylon 6.2.0

     

  • The Role of Eye Tracking in Understanding Human Behavior, Intentions and Interactions

  • Using Eye Tracking to Understand Human Behavior Through Driving Simulations with VI-grade

  • Training Tomorrow’s Top Engineers with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  • Webinar: Understanding Eye Tracking Research with Smart Eye

    Why watch?

    Eye tracking is a quickly growing area of research and information and can be used to uncover insights regarding participant behavior and mindset during various situations.

    If you want to apply it to your industry or field, the first step you need to take, is choosing the right eye tracking device. There are many solutions available and they all have a number of different features and capabilities and each type of tracker has its own advantages and disadvantages. In this webinar we dive into some important characteristics that you should consider before making a decision.

    In this webinar you will learn:

    • How to make an informed decision when selecting an eye tracking solution
    • To understand capabilities and features of remote 3D eye tracking

  • Smart Eye Pro 9.2: New generation of AI-powered gaze for next-level precision

    With the best combined head box, field of view and gaze accuracy on the market, Smart Eye Pro has become known as the ideal research partner for even the most complex environments and studies.

    Now, the world’s most advanced remote eye tracking system levels up.

    With Smart Eye Pro 9.2, we introduce a system with AI-powered gaze, enabling even better precision and flexibility.

    The multi-camera system is scalable from 2 up to 8 cameras, allowing 360-degree head and eye tracking. Free and wide placement of cameras both horizontally and vertically makes it ideal for car and flight simulators, vehicle studies, multi-screen or control room environments, long-range tracking, mobiles, tablets, and single screens around the world.

    Watch as our sales engineer Sebastian Johansson demonstrates and explains the new features and improvements of Smart Eye Pro:

    The new features of Smart Eye Pro 9.2 include:

    – New generation of AI-powered gaze enables greatly improved estimated gaze for extended field of view during extreme angles and head rotation – while keeping the precise gaze within the camera’s field of view.

    – No gaze calibration needed for accurate estimated gaze.

    – Estimated gaze does not use the corneal reflection from the illuminators. So, for setups with only estimated gaze, even more flexibility in camera and flash placement is enabled.

    – All programs and associated examples (except for the Laser Chessboard Tool) are now built for 64 bit architectures instead of 32 bit, for a more modern environment.

     

    Get in touch.

    Want to know more about how Smart Eye Pro 9.2 work?
    Get in touch, and we’ll be happy to set up a live demonstration.

    Contact us

  • Introducing Smart Eye Pro 9.1

    Since its launch, Smart Eye Pro has helped researchers see beyond their previous limitations. As accurate as it is versatile, the Smart Eye Pro has been the ultimate research partner for car and flight simulators, vehicle studies, multi-screen or control room environments, long-range tracking, mobiles, tablets and single screens around the world.

    Now, the world’s most advanced remote eye tracking system is able to see even further. As of today, we are proud to introduce new Smart Eye Pro 9.1.

    Smart Eye Pro 9.1 takes the great accuracy and large visual field of the original model and combines it with an increased flexibility. The multi-camera system allows 360-degree head and eye tracking in any lighting conditions, even when large parts of the face is covered.

    If there’s anything this year has taught us, it’s the importance of versatility in our research instruments. Covid-19 has not only affected our daily lives, it has also forced us to adjust the way we do research, whether this means switching up locations or wearing a face mask. With this in mind, we have developed Smart Eye Pro 9.1 as a system that adapts to you and your research – not the other way around.

    Watch as our sales engineer Sebastian Johansson demonstrates the new functions of Smart Eye Pro 9.1 in the video below.

    https://vimeo.com/488432287/a2b79d5929

    The new features of
    Smart Eye Pro 9.1 include:

    • Very accurate head and eye tracking, even when the subject is wearing a face mask or some other object that partly covers the face
    • Effective in situations where helmets and oxygen masks cover most of the face, which are common for many of our aviation customers
    • Allows you to set a world coordinate system to an anchor point in the real world, reducing the need to have a mount for the chess board to reproduce original world coordinate systems
    • Synchronizes multiple systems in order to use the same point of origin for the world coordinate system, making it possible for multiple systems to use the same world model and that the output data is synchronized in both time and space

     

    Get in touch.

    Want to know more about how Smart Eye Pro 9.1 work?
    Get in touch, and we’ll be happy to set up a live demonstration.

    Contact us

  • Webinar: How Eye Tracking Benefits Automotive HMI Research and Development

     

    Why watch?
    The automotive industry’s technology is constantly in flux.  As a result, the automobile working environment is ever expanding, continually reaching new levels of complexity. To keep up with the technological advances, the pressure on HMI research and development is greater than ever.