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A NOVEL EFFICIENT HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACE USING

AN ELECTROOCULOGRAM
Vandhana1, Prabhu. S2
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PG Student, Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology

Assistant professor, Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology

Abstract
This paper presents the Electrooculography (EOG) on human computer interface (HCI) is a novel measurement technique for eye
tracking and the recognition for patients Eye movement and blood circulation in the nerves are measured by EOG signal. The EOG
signal can be acquired by placing electrodes in the forehead and acquired data is analyzed by using wavelet transform and fuzzy
logic. The transformed signal can be decomposed and de-noised. Fuzzy logic is used to separate the clustered signal from false
signal. The analyzed signal can be given on the MSP430 controller which is implemented and used to control the electrical devices.

Keywords: Electrooculography (EOG), Human Computer interface (HCI), Multi signal processing (MSP), Eye movement
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Human computer interface is a field that promises to ease the
communications between machines and humans. It is assumed
that the population of people aged 60 and beyond will range
from one to three in 2030 considering life span extension and
the handicapped patients, they need for a human computer
interface (HCI) has been increasing cognitive functions are
generally normal, patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
other tetraplegia clinical conditions have severe disabilities in
moving their whole bodies. Some of these patients can only
move their eyeballs. So by introducing a new channel without
overt speaking and hand/arm motions makes life easier for
patients and therefore improves their life style.
Paralyzed stroke patients are unable to normally communicate
with their environment. Their body that is under their control,
in terms of muscular movement using eyeballs [15]. As a
review of the state of the art of electrooculogram (EOG)
systems, there are several EOG based HCI applications for
different purposes in the literature. Our motivation is to
increase the quality of life of these patients using an HCI that
provides an efficient communication channel.
The interface that provides control of machines for disabled
people is called man machine interface (MMI) in general.
When the control can be made by using a computer based or
(microcomputer-based) system, it is called HCI, instead of
MMI. The electrical signals generated by the human brain that
are related to body functions are called an
electroencephalogram (EEG). If the assistive system is based
on EEG, it is known as the brain computer interface (BCI),
and its applications for severely disabled people. The electrical
signals generated by the eye movements which are called an
electrooculogram (EOG).

The Electrooculogram (EOG) as a novel measurement

technique for wearable eye tracking and recognition of user
activity and attention in mobile settings. The EOG recordings
to be implemented using electrodes integrated into glasses and
the signals processed in real time on a light weight device
worn on the body. This signal capturing eye wear system is
used to project the graphical interface [3].

Fig 1.1 Electrode device

The fig1.1 shown the electrode circuit it can be capture the
data or signal from the blood circulation on forehead on eye.
The most efficient ways to acquire and analyze bioelectrical
signals is through highly integrated software and hardware
such as National Instruments SIGVIEW and data acquisition
devices. SIGVIEW includes a powerful library with more than
500 functions for mathematics, signal processing, and
analysis. Once the bioelectrical signal is amplified it can be
digitized by any electrode data acquisition device, and then
analyzed and displayed in SIGVIEW.
In recent technological advancements in human computer
interface movement based interaction such as eye gaze

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tracking[1][8],track the pupil[13],Rapid Eye Movement (REM

sleep)[14] and mobile gaze based[2]. The previous papers are
used the EOG signal for control the wheel chair [8], virtual
keyboard [4][7], remote devices[3], and eye controlled web
browser[9]. They used to analyses the techniques are image
processing algorithm, longest line scanning, cam shift
algorithm, wavelet transform, neural network, Kanade optical
flow algorithm, Clustering algorithm and Kalman filtering.
The existing system provides a HCI based on EOG signal,
data analyzed in real time using a microcontroller based
platform running the Linux operating system. The EOG signal
is filtered using a CWT, here an eye movement is detected by
using neural network.

Fig 2.1 Block Diagram of Human Computer Interface

The proposed project is analyzed the electrooculogram (EOG)

signal by using wavelet transform and fuzzy logic. The EOG
signal (Eye movement and blood circulation) can be acquired
by placing the electrodes which is used in Human computer
interface (HCI) it shown in Fig 1.2.

Fig 2.2 Block Diagram of Acquisition system

Fig 1.2 Positioning of electrodes

Horizontal-channel electrodes were placed on the right and
left channel (Ch.H+ and Ch.H-), up and down channel (Ch.V+
and Ch.V-) this field focused on translating four eye
movements (left, right,up, and down), and eye blink to select
device which is vary from the pressure of the blood in the
nerves. The EOG signal can be acquired from the electrode
and the signal are amplified using the signal conditioning
circuit. Then the acquired data is analyzed by using wavelet
transform and fuzzy logic. The transformed signal can be
decomposed and de- noised. Fuzzy logic is used to separate
the clustered signal from false signal.

2. SYSTEM DESGIN
The block diagram describing the project is shown in Fig
2.1.The method consists of two steps namely 1. Acquisition
system 2.Control system

The electrode circuit, it can be capture the data or signal from

the blood circulation on forehead on eye. The biomedical
signals acquired from the human body are frequently very
small. So that the signal can be amplified. The Wavelet
Transform provides a time-frequency representation of the
signal. Wavelet transform has ability to analysis different eye
movement simultaneously in both time and frequency domain.
Fuzzy Logic belongs to the family of many-valued logic,
which focuses on fixed and approximate reasoning. A variable
in fuzzy logic can take a value range from 0 and 1, which
opposed to take true or false as in traditional binary sets.
Fuzzy logic is used to separate the clustered signal from false
signal and determine the value of true and false signal. The
eye movement can be determined by using the wavelet
transform and fuzzy logic. The digital wavelet transformed
signal can be decomposed and de-noised. Then measure the
range of de-noised. Thus the values are different for each
movement.

3. PHOTOS AND SPECIFICATION

In the acquisition system, the 230v Dc power supply is given
to transformer; it converts 230 v to 12v. Then is 12v power
supply is given to bridge rectifier which converts Dc to Ac.
now the 12v power supply is converted to 5v using voltage
regulator. The 5v supply is given to signal conditioning circuit
and this is amplifies the signal from the electrode. The signal
obtain from the forehead will be from 58.12 to 68mv, and then

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the amplified output will be 5v. The amplified signal is the

analog signal which is viewed in the SIGVIEW software.

3.1 Acquisition System

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The input signal of left movement is 20khz and it is analyzed

using discrete Fourier transform and produces de-noised
signal, then the output frequency of left eye movement will be
1.428X 10-3HZ. Then the threshold value obtained 0.1596.

The block diagram describing the acquisition system, the brain

signals are acquired using electrode, then the obtained signal
are amplified and the signals are analyzed using wavelet
transform and fuzzy logic. The detail block diagram is shown
in the figure 2.2.

2
3
4

Fig 4.2 Noise and De Noised Signal for Right

Fig 3.1 Hardware Component of Acquisition System

1. Transformer, 2. Signal conditioning, 3.Voltage regulator,
4.Electrode.

4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION

The input signal of right movement is 23.9khz and it is

analyzed using discrete Fourier transform and produces denoised signal, then the output frequency of right eye
movement will be 1.25X 10-3HZ. Then the threshold value
obtained 0.1609.

The simulation tool used is MATLAB13a. The MATLAB

(matrix laboratory) is a numerical computing environment and
fourth-generation programming language.

4.1 Wavelet Transform

The eye movement (signal) is analyzed in discrete Fourier
transform, which is filtered and decomposed and it is denoised.

Fig 4.3 Noise and De Noised Signal for Upward

The input signal of up movement is 29khz and it is analyzed
using discrete Fourier transform and produces de-noised
signal, then the output frequency of up eye movement will be
1.0526X 10-3HZ. Then the threshold value obtained 0.1152.

Fig 4.1 Noise and De Noised Signal for Left

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Fig 4.4 Noise and De Noised Signal for Downward

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Fig 6.1 Output Of Clustered Signal For Left

The input signal of upward movement is 25khz and it is

analyzed using discrete Fourier transform and produces denoised signal, then the output frequency of left eye movement
will be 1.538X 10-3HZ. Then the threshold value obtained
0.1209.

5. THRESHOLD GRAPH

Fig 6.2 Output of Clustered Signal For Right

Fig 5.1 Graph of Frequency and Threshold

Figure 5.1 shows the threshold value and the frequency of
different eye movements, where if there is any increase in
input frequency, there could be a decrease in the respective
threshold value.
MOVEMENT

Up
Down
Left
Right

INPUT
FRQUENCY
(KHz)
29.0
25.0
20.0
23.9

THRESHOLD

Fig 6.3 Output of Clustered Signal For Upward

0.1152
0.1209
0.1596
0.1609

Fig 5.2 Comparative Table of threshold ranges for different

eye movement

6. FUZZY LOGIC
The fuzzy logic is used to separate the true and false signal of
different eye movement (left, right, up and down).

Fig 6.4 Output of Clustered Signal For Downward

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EYE
MOVEMENTS

TRUE
VALUE

LEFT

-0.3 to 0.9

RIGHT

-0.4 to 0.9

UPWARD
DOWNWARD

-0.5 to 0.9
-0.9 to 0.7

FALSE VALUE
Positive
Negative
region
region
-0.4 to 0.9 to 1
0.7
0.9-1
-0.4 to 0.8
0.9-1
0.5 to -1
0.7-1
-0.9 to -1

Fig 6.5 comparative table for different eye movement

7. CONCLUSIONS
The EOG signal for different eye movements are classified in
real time system in signal conditioning circuit and the quality
of the graphic interface, for better controlling of the electrical
devices.
The EOG signal analysis linear saccadic eye model and eye
blinking, using wavelet transform and fuzzy logic in serial
process and then it detects the corresponding eye movement.
Then the captured EOG signal will be used for implementing
algorithm and also for implementing the graphical user
interface which controls electrical devices. Then by using
MSP430 controller, human computer interface will be
implemented.

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