Eye localization through multiscale sparse dictionaries

Abstract

This paper presents a new eye localization method via Multiscale Sparse Dictionaries (MSD). We built a pyramid of dictionaries that models context information at multiple scales. Eye locations are estimated at each scale by fitting the image through sparse coefficients of the dictionary. By using context information, our method is robust to various eye appearances. The method also works efficiently since it avoids sliding a search window in the image during localization. The experiments in BioID database prove the effectiveness of our method. © 2011 IEEE.