3D-Oculography: New Method of Determination of Human Gaze Point Position in Space

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Oculography — a method of recording movement of eyeballs of a human or animal by analyzing changes in electrical potentials recorded by two electrodes fixed on skin near the eye socket is used to solve various problems. Among them are the determination of pronounced nystagmus, of characteristic changes of oculomotor reactions in different conditions of observing video images. Of interest is the determination of the position of gaze point (GP) and of the area of increased attention in three-dimensional space. This information is associated with the cognitive system of the observer and is of interest not only to physiologists, but also to specialists of related fields. .

AIM: To experimentally prove the effectiveness of the developed method of 3D-oculography providing determination of the GP position in space.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The possibility of restoring GP position based on the analysis of recorded oculograms even in the presence of additive noise induced by the external electromagnetic fields, is proven by the numeric modeling method. Direct experimental studies were conducted with recording oculograms of a human observer on a previously verified equipment. A ZB-2 oculograph was used, the data obtained were verified by the method of average values.

RESULTS: The obtained modeling results permitted to determine the maximal values of dispersion of additive noise and amplitude shifts of signals, which make possible satisfactory restoration of the coordinates of the GP and parameters of its movement trajectory. The qualitative correspondence of the experimental results to the results of numerical modeling was proven. The correspondence between trajectories of the observed object moving in space and trajectories of GP movement synthesized from counts of recorded oculograms was confirmed.

CONCLUSION: Multichannel record of oculographic signals permits restoring parameters of the GP trajectory. Creating systems for recording these signals requires minimization of the noise level. An increase in dispersion of the noise component of the signal leads to most significant errors in calculating the coordinates of trajectory points.

Keywords

oculography / 3D-space / gaze point / trajectory / additive noise

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