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Eye tracking<br />

The architecture <strong>of</strong> the <strong>facial</strong> expression recognition system integrates two major<br />

components. In the case <strong>of</strong> the real-time analysis applied on video streams, a first module<br />

is set to determine the position <strong>of</strong> the person eyes. The eye detector is based on the<br />

characteristic <strong>of</strong> the eye pupils in infra-red illumination. For the project experiments, an<br />

IR-adapted web cam was used as vision sensor (Figure 11).<br />

Given the position <strong>of</strong> the eyes, the next step is to recover the position <strong>of</strong> the other visual<br />

features as the presence <strong>of</strong> some wrinkles, furrows and the position <strong>of</strong> the mouth and<br />

eyebrows. The information related to the position <strong>of</strong> the eyes is used to constrain the<br />

mathematical model for the point detection. The second module receives the coordinates<br />

<strong>of</strong> the visual features and uses them to apply recognition <strong>of</strong> <strong>facial</strong> <strong>expressions</strong> according<br />

to the given emotional classes.<br />

Figure 11. IR-adapted web cam<br />

The enhanced detection <strong>of</strong> the eyes in the image sequence is accomplished by using a<br />

tracking mechanism based on Kalman filter [Almageed et. all 2002]. The eye-tracking<br />

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