In order to localize the viewers’ eyes, a high-speed and robust
infrared-guiding multiuser eye localization system was fabricated in
this paper for a binocular autostereoscopic display, which can project
a pair of parallax images to corresponding eyes. The system is
composed of a low-resolution thermal infrared camera, a pair of
high-resolution left and right visible spectral cameras, and an
industrial computer. The infrared camera and the left visible spectral
camera, and the left and right visible spectral camera, can both form
the binocular vision system. The thermal infrared camera
can capture the thermography images. The left and right visible
spectral cameras can capture the left and right visible spectral
images, respectively. Owing to the temperature difference between the
face and background, the features of the face in thermography images
are prominent. We use the YOLO-V3 neural network to detect the
viewers’ faces in thermography images. Owing to the different features
of the pseudo and real faces in the infrared spectral, in the
thermography images, the pseudo-faces can be easily eliminated.
According to the positions and sizes of potential bounding boxes of
the detected faces in the thermography images, the industrial computer
can be guided to determine the left candidate regions in the left
visible spectral image. Then, the industrial computer can determine
the right candidate regions in the right visible spectral image. In
the left candidate regions, the industrial computer detects the faces
and localize the eyes by using the SeetaFace algorithm. The template
matching is performed between the left and right candidate regions to
calculate the accurate distance between the viewer and the system. The
average detection time of the proposed method is about 3–8 ms.
Compared with traditional methods, the localization time is improved
by 86.7%–90.1%. Further, the proposed method is hardly influenced by
the pseudo-faces and the strong ambient light.
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