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Night Eyes: A Reproducible Framework for Constellation-Based Corneal Reflection Matching

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-04-03 v1 Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract

Corneal reflection (glint) detection plays an important role in pupil-corneal reflection (P-CR) eye tracking, but in practice it is often handled as heuristics embedded within larger systems, making reproducibility difficult across hardware setups. We introduce a 2D geometry-driven, constellation-based pipeline for mulit-glint detection and matching, focusing on reproducibility and clear evaluation. Inspired by lost-in-space star identification, we treat glints as structured constellations rather than independent blobs. We propose a Similarity-Layout Alignment (SLA) procedure which adapts constellation matching to the specific constraints of multi-LED eye tracking. The framework brings together controlled over-detection, adaptive candidate fallback, appearance-aware scoring, and optional semantic layout priors while keeping detection and correspondence explicitly separated. Evaluated on a public multi-LED dataset, the system provides stable identity-preserving correspondence under noisy conditions. We release code, presets, and evaluation scripts to enable transparent replication, comparison, and dataset annotation.

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@article{arxiv.2604.01909,
  title  = {Night Eyes: A Reproducible Framework for Constellation-Based Corneal Reflection Matching},
  author = {Virmarie Maquiling and Yasmeen Abdrabou and Enkelejda Kasneci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01909},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

6 pages, 3 figures, 2 algorithms, ETRA26

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