Mouse Pointer Tracking with Eyes

In this article, we expose our research work in Human-machine Interaction. The research consists in manipulating the workspace by eyes. We present some of our results, in particular the detection of eyes and the mouse actions recognition. Indeed, the handicaped user becomes able to interact with the machine in a more intuitive way in diverse applications and contexts. To test our application we have chooses to work in real time on videos captured by a camera placed in front of the user.

Authors:

• H. Mhamdi
• N. Hamrouni
• A. Temimi
• M. Bouhlel

Keywords:

• Computer vision
• Face and Eyes Detection
• Mouse pointer recognition.

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