Machine Vision and Applications

, Volume 21, Issue 5, pp 779–787 | Cite as

A fast connected components labeling algorithm and its application to real-time pupil detection

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Abstract

We describe a fast connected components labeling algorithm using a region coloring approach. It computes region attributes such as size, moments, and bounding boxes in a single pass through the image. Working in the context of real-time pupil detection for an eye tracking system, we compare the time performance of our algorithm with a contour tracing-based labeling approach and a region coloring method developed for a hardware eye detection system. We find that region attribute extraction performance exceeds that of these comparison methods. Further, labeling each pixel, which requires a second pass through the image, has comparable performance.

Keywords

Connected components labeling Pupil detection Eye tracking Region coloring Segmentation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.3DVIS Lab, College of Optical SciencesUniversity of ArizonaTucsonUSA
  2. 2.Department of Computer ScienceUniversity of ArizonaTucsonUSA

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