We are excited to announce our latest update for Pupil Cloud including a new blink detector for Pupil Invisible, visualizations for the Reference Image Mapper enrichment and quicker access to data downloads in convenient formats!
Blink Detector
We built a brand new blink detection algorithm and are making it available in Pupil Cloud. Blinks will be calculated for recordings automatically on upload to Pupil Cloud and be available in exports. The algorithm analyzes motion patterns in the eye videos to robustly detect blink events including blink duration. We are planning on open sourcing the blink detection algorithm in the near future.
Learn more about the algorithm here.
Checkout the export format of blink data here.
Reference Image Mapper Visualizations
The Reference Image Mapper enables you to automatically map gaze from the scene video onto a reference image. We want to give users a glimpse into how the algorithm works and a way to inspect the results.
To facilitate that, we added two new visualizations for the Reference Image Mapper to the project editor.
If you select a Reference Image Mapper enrichment in the project editor sidebar you can enable a side-by-side view of the reference image and the scene video. You can play back gaze on them simultaneously and verify the correctness of the mapping.
Internally, the Reference Image Mapper is generating a 3D point cloud representation of the recorded environment. You can now enable a visualization of this point cloud projected onto the scene video. This allows you to verify that the 3D scene camera motion has been estimated correctly.
CSV Data Downloads In Drive
You can already use the Raw Data Exporter enrichment to download recordings in convenient formats like CSV and MP4 files. Now you can download recordings in convenient formats directly from Drive! We did this to help speed up the exploration of data for those who don’t need to create a project.
In the Drive view you can click on the Download button and now see two options. Download binary recording data which downloads the raw data as recorded on the Companion Device (plus 200Hz gaze data). And the new option called Download Recording which will result in CSV data files and videos in convenient formats (including 200 Hz gaze, fixation and blink data).
