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Fast and accurate eye tracking in a virtual reality or augmented reality headset could lead to better display performance and enable novel methods of user interaction with the system. However, it remains a challenge for a system to combine…
28,000+ high-quality iris images of 1350 distinct eyes from 650+ different individuals from a relatively diverse university town population were collected. A small defined unobstructed portion of the normalized iris image is selected as a…
Reconstructing 3D hand meshes from monocular RGB images has attracted increasing amount of attention due to its enormous potential applications in the field of AR/VR. Most state-of-the-art methods attempt to tackle this task in an anonymous…