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Tracking doesn´t start!

Postby garbage » Thu Nov 19, 2009 3:42 pm

Hi,

I´m using the Genius iSlim 321R with the latest downloadable version from the website. I´m running the software on my desktop pc (Windows 7) as on my notebook (Windows XP SP3). On both computers the camera gets regognized correctly (Under Windows XP as USB Camera only, but it is working nevertheless) and by the ITU Gaze Tracker Software, too. Changing the video resolution brings the infrared LED´s to life, so everything is behaving as supposed to.

The first strange behaviour is on the XP machine. When I try to check the "pupil" tracking mode it doesn´t get checked. Also the "glinz" option refuses to get checked. But as I see green surfaces in the recorded image and no blue ones I suppose the pupil mode is already activated. The windows 7 machine doesn´t have this mysterious behaviour.

But nevertheless in both machines I got the calibration to work. On my second try I already scored 4 stars :D and the aiming cross does follow my eye movements correctly after the initialisation procedure of the calibration process. It´s a little bit jittery but with somewhat concentration I managed to hit the center of the white circles pretty good...

In pleasant anticipation I finished the calibration process and started the tracker, but the mouse doesn´t move at all! I can reproduce this behaviour on both pc´s and so it is quite improbably that the reason is some (unknown) missconfiguration of the Windows system... So something else has to go completly wrong ... but what? It would be glad if someone can help me out of this pitty...

I did everything exactly as I described above, everything double or even tripple checked.

Thanks,
Elias
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Re: Tracking doesn´t start!

Postby martintall » Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:14 pm

Hi Elias,

I'm happy that you've got it working, we're always interested in hearing peoples experiences with the software. To your issues, the "checkbox issue" is know and seems to be dependent on the operating system or version of .Net, I've head others having the same problem. It's related to the styling of the component and will be fixed in the upcoming release.

If you have the cross-hair moving after the calibration everything should be good to go, I assume you have checked the option to start mouse control under the Options tab, right? (knowing it might be hard for you to see if it's checked or not)
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Re: Tracking doesn´t start!

Postby backuslab » Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:46 pm

I'd like to know how you got everything working on Windows 7. I'm getting the black screen problem, but I think it's because I'm running in 64-bit. Could you let me know more details?

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Re: Tracking doesn´t start!

Postby javiersanagustin » Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:02 pm

backuslab wrote:I'd like to know how you got everything working on Windows 7. I'm getting the black screen problem, but I think it's because I'm running in 64-bit. Could you let me know more details?

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OpenCV does not officially support 64-bit.
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