IntelliPupil: Pupillometric Light Modulation for Optical See-Through Head-Mounted Displays

Chang Liu, Alexander Plopski, Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Photchara Ratsamee, Jason Orlosky

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4 Scopus citations

Abstract

In practical use of optical see-through head-mounted displays, users often have to adjust the brightness of virtual content to ensure that it is at the optimal level. Automatic adjustment is still a challenging problem, largely due to the bidirectional nature of the structure of the human eye, complexity of real world lighting, and user perception. Allowing the right amount of light to pass through to the retina requires a constant balance of incoming light from the real world, additional light from the virtual image, pupil contraction, and feedback from the user. While some automatic light adjustment methods exist, none have completely tackled this complex input-output system. As a step towards overcoming this issue, we introduce IntelliPupil, an approach that uses eye tracking to properly modulate augmentation lighting for a variety of lighting conditions and real scenes. We first take the data from a small form factor light sensor and changes in pupil diameter from an eye tracking camera as passive inputs. This data is coupled with user-controlled brightness selections, allowing us to fit a brightness model to user preference using a feed-forward neural network. Using a small amount of training data, both scene luminance and pupil size are used as inputs into the neural network, which can then automatically adjust to a user's personal brightness preferences in real time. Experiments in a high dynamic range AR scenario with varied lighting show that pupil size is just as important as environment light for optimizing brightness and that our system outperforms linear models.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2018
EditorsDavid Chu, Joseph L. Gabbard, Jens Grubert, Holger Regenbrecht
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages98-104
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781538674598
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2018 - Munich, Germany
Duration: Oct 16 2018Oct 20 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2018

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period10/16/1810/20/18

Keywords

  • Head-mounted displays
  • augmented reality
  • eye tracking
  • lighting adjustment
  • optical see-through

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Media Technology

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