EYE PHONE-HAND FREE MOBILE CONTROL: A Review

Abstract

Eye Phone, a new “hand-free” interfacing system which enables its users in driving mobile applications/functions using only the eyes movement and actions. Using the front camera of the phone and
different machine learning algorithms, user’s eye movements are being tracked. Eye Phone tracks the position of the user's eye relative to the screen but not where the user is looking. Eye phone seems to be an important alternative to voice activation systems as their performance decreases in noisy environment. The naturalness of gaze makes eye tracking reliable and promising. The Eye Phone’s working mainly relies on eye tracking and blink detection. This paper gives an overview of eye tracking system and prototype implementation of Nokia N810 developed at Dartmouth College.