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Archive for July, 2010

Google Voice transcript fail

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Google Voice is pretty good at transcribing voicemail but can come unstuck on more unusual messages. Perhaps it is able to read more into it than I can. Here are two messages I got today (flash player required).

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Eye Tracking – The Eye Camera

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Photo of a camera lens in an eye

In this post I’ll be describing how I made a head mounted IR camera for tracking where a person is looking. I’ve been working on getting low-cost home brew eye tracking running on my Mac. I want the computer to know where I’m looking on the screen and to be able to interact with my gaze. My first attempt uses a head mounted IR camera to determine the pupil position and a second remote camera to detect the head position relative to the screen.

Picture Rachel Chapman.
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