Cost Effective Real-time System for cognitive computing using Personalized Eye Blink Detection from Camera

Eye blink is indicative of various mental states. Generally, vision based approaches are used for detecting eye blinks. However, performance of such approaches varies across participants. Standard eye tracker or eye glasses used for detecting blinks, are very costly. Here, we are proposing a personalized vision based eye blink detector system. Proposed approach is ubiquitous and unobtrusive in nature and can be implemented using standard webcams/mobile camera, making it deployable for real world scenarios. Our approach has been validated on a set of data collected from our lab and on an open data set. Results show that in both cases, our system performs well for various conditions like natural/artificial light, with or without spectacles. We achieved a F_score of 0.98 for own collected data and 0.91 for open dataset, which outperform state of the art approaches.