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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.0 20120330//EN" "JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFORMATICA</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Informatica</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">0868-4952</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">0868-4952</issn><publisher><publisher-name>VU</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">inf23106</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/Informatica.2012.351</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>The Gaze Tracking System with Natural Head Motion Compensation</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Raudonis</surname><given-names>Vidas</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:vidas.raudonis@ktu.lt">vidas.raudonis@ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Paulauskaitė-Tarasevičienė</surname><given-names>Agnė</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:agne@ifko.ktu.lt">agne@ifko.ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="Author"><name><surname>Kižauskienė</surname><given-names>Laura</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:losta@ifko.ktu.lt">losta@ifko.ktu.lt</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002"/></contrib><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_000">Kaunas University of Technology, Department of Control Technologies, Studentu 48-325, LT-51367 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_001">Kaunas University of Technology, Department of Business Informatics, Studentu 56-442, LT-51424 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff><aff id="j_INFORMATICA_aff_002">Kaunas University of Technology, Department of Computer Engineering, Studentu 50-214, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania</aff></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>01</month><year>2012</year></pub-date><volume>23</volume><issue>1</issue><fpage>105</fpage><lpage>124</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>01</day><month>03</month><year>2011</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>01</day><month>10</month><year>2011</year></date></history><abstract><p>In this paper the gaze tracking system based on the adaptively changing threshold value of the gray level, which automatically detects the pupil position in two dimensional data is proposed. The system detects closed eye using normalized accumulative luminosity function. The detection of closed eye allows the confirmation of voluntary selected command in a more natural way. The presented technique allows recalibration without intervention or help of other assistive persons. Natural head motion is evaluated, employing signals, generated by orientation sensor. Within two experiments, the proposed system is tested at different behavior modes in respect of speed and accuracy of the system.</p></abstract><kwd-group><label>Keywords</label><kwd>eye tracking</kwd><kwd>artificial neural networks</kwd><kwd>adaptive threshold</kwd><kwd>head motion compensation</kwd><kwd>calibration</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>