Home // ACHI 2013, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions // View article


Automatic Discrimination of Voluntary and Spontaneous Eyeblinks. Use of the blink as a switch interface

Authors:
Shogo Matsuno
Minoru Ohyama
Kiyohiko Abe
Hironobu Sato
Shoichi Ohi

Keywords: Computer interface, Automatic discrimination, Voluntary eye blink, Spontaneous eye blink

Abstract:
This paper proposes a method to analyze the automatic detection and discrimination of eyeblinks for use with a human-computer interface. When eyeblinks are detected, the eyeblink waveform is also acquired from a change in the eye aperture area of the subject by giving a sound signal. We compared voluntary and spontaneous blink parameters obtained by experiments, and we found that the trends of the subjects for important feature parameters could be sorted into three types. As a result, the realization of automatic discrimination of voluntary and spontaneous eye blinking can be expected.

Pages: 433 to 439

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-250-9

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013