A further simplified algorithm for blink recognition using video oculography for communicating

Abstract

A lot of research has been carried out in the past decade to assist patients suffering from paralysis or Motor Neuron Disease (MND) to communicate and also to move. Though solutions exist, they are extremely expensive and also sluggish in user response. This paper presents a cost effective setup and a novel algorithm to help the MND affected segment of the society to communicate using only blinks. A major feature of the research carried out is the high speed dilation algorithm discovered and also a simplified eye detection methodology, which is totally independent of a computer interface. All experiments were carried out using Simulink bundled with MATLAB 2011b. A Java implementation for speed efficiency calculation was also carried out and proved that the proposed methodology is 8 times faster compared to its predecessor technology.