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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Thomson Licensing, Issy de Moulineaux, FR;
Phi Bang Nguyen, Rennes, FR;
Julien Fleureau, Rennes, FR;
Christel Chamaret, Chantepie, FR;
Philippe Guillotel, Vern sur Seiche, FR;
Thomson Licensing, , FR;
Abstract
A method and device for eye gaze estimation with regard to a sequence of images. The method comprises receiving a sequence of first video images and a corresponding sequence of first eye images of a user watching at the first video images; determining first saliency maps associated with at least a part of the first video images; estimating associated first gaze points from the first saliency maps associated with the video images associated with the first eye images; storing of pairs of first eye images/first gaze points in a database; for a new eye image, called second eye image, estimating an associated second gaze point from the estimated first gaze points and from a second saliency map associated with a second video image associated with the second eye image; storing the second eye image and its associated second gaze point in the database.