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Open source and low cost eye tracking

Last modified 24-06-2008
This list contains low-cost, free and open source eye tracking systems and research prototypes, and information that should help in building your own eye tracker. Some of them are targeted at people with disabilities (eye-control systems), some for more general eye tracking and research.

Open source eye tracking

  • openEyes, open-source open-hardware toolkit for low-cost real-time eye tracking
    See also the Windows version by Joel Clemens.
  • Opengazer, open-source gaze tracker for ordinary webcams.
  • TrackEye: Real-Time Tracking Of Human Eyes Using a Webcam. Implemented in C++ using the OpenCV library.

Open source and freeware eye movement analysis tools

  • OGAMA (OpenGazeAndMouseAnalyzer), an open source software designed to analyze eye and mouse movements in slideshow study designs
  • RITCode analysis tool for captured eye tracker video files, created by the Rochester Institute Of Technology Visual Perception Lab.
  • iComponent, tracker-independent analysis and visualization tool by Oleg Spakov.
  • ETU Driver, Eye-Tracking Universal (Standard) Driver, which helps the developer to build tracker-independent applications and test them off-line with a gaze data simulator.

Low-cost eye tracking

  • I4Control®, low-cost eye control system (under development)
  • Magic Key, low-cost eye control system (under development)

Research prototypes

  • FreeGaze, a gaze tracking system for everyday gaze interaction by Takehiko Ohno et al.
  • GoldenGaze, low-cost IR-based eye tracking system, developed at Universität Koblenz-Landau.
    Droege et al. (2006) GoldenGaze: an inexpensive real-time gaze tracking system. Proceedings of COGAIN 2006 (pdf)
  • Practical tips on building a lightweight eyetracker by J.S. Babcock and J.B. Pelz. Proceedings of ETRA 2004 (pdf)

Miscellaneous

  • Blink-It, system for environment control and communication for entirely disabled people. Not eye-tracking but reacts to eye blinks.
  • EyeFinder, not eye tracking but OpenCV tools for locating the eyes and face.
  • xuuk eyebox2TM detects when an eye is looking at it at reasonable cost.


See also the list of
list of eye trackers for eye movement research Commercial eye tracking systems for eye movement research, analysis and evaluation
list of open-source and low-cost eye trackers Eye control systems for interactive applications within AAC


Please email any corrections or additions to paivi.majaranta@cogain.org.