The Eye Tribe

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for Windows & OSX v0.9.77 released

2016-05-04T00:18:58+02:00

It's been a while but finally here it is, the new .77 release. There's many changes under the hood so let us know if there's anything troubling. This round covers primarily bug-fixing, improved run-time efficiency and better tracking in some situations.

Download available at your account page.

Update: Potential compatibility issue with PyGaze reported. Bug in PyTribe (invalid json) needs to be resolved. Please use version 0.9.56 until it's fixed.

EyeTribe Server
- Optimized tracking algorithms for faster recovery
- Improved image processing routines for faster and more precise detection of eye features
- Reduced CPU consumption, fewer spikes
- Pull request has been deprecated, Push is mandatory and selected automatically for new connections
- Heartbeats have been deprecated (still supported). Client connections will not be disconnected if heartbeats are not sent to the server
- API ID has been added (optional). The ID is simply echoed in the reply if it’s available with the request. The ID has been introduced for synchronization purposes.

EyeTribe UI for Windows
- Showing Frames Per Second in title bar of APIConsole (avg over 1000ms)
- Fixed memory leak in APIConsole
- Fixed bug for calibration point sampling duration (TETControls) did not respect setting applied in application.
- Fixed additional minor bugs in TETControls and C# TETClient. Source code will be pushed to Github repo shortly.

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 04 May 2016, 00:18

Announcements • Updates for web server

2016-05-03T19:15:45+02:00

I'm performing updates on the web server, one of the reasons is that we're getting ready to ship a new fresh version to you all. Please be patient while we resolve issues that occurred while migrating WordPress and associated plugins

Hope to have it all back to within a few hours.

Stay tuned for version 0.9.77.

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 03 May 2016, 19:15

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.56 released

2015-03-13T17:12:03+02:00

Fetch it through the download page (login required). Changes as follows:

EyeTribe Server
- Introducing the default calibration profile. Loads the default calibration profile at startup - saves/overwrites the default calibration profile after every successful calibration
- Fixed an issue with high CPU usage in a “no presence” situation
- Fixed crash when sending invalid JSON requests
- Improved detection robustness

EyeTribe UI
- Fixed broken drawn eyes in fullscreen/demo mode on Yosemite
- Fixed for mouse cursor control not being available after a saved calibration profile was auto-loaded
- Fixed screen rotation awareness

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 13 Mar 2015, 17:12

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for Windows v0.9.56 released

2015-03-13T17:09:50+02:00

Grab it off the download page (login required). Changes as follows:

EyeTribe Server
- Introducing the default calibration profile. Automatically loads the default calibration profile at startup and saves/overwrites the default calibration profile after every successful calibration.
- Dramatically reduced CPU usage in a “no presence” situation
- Fixed crash when sending invalid JSON requests
- Improved detection robustness

EyeTribe UI
- Fixed calibration scaling issue when DPI scaling applied (wrong values in screen size and point moving offscreen)
- Fixed bug where calibration window would freeze at last point when server requested resampling of one or more points.
- Reduced CPU load when rendering text in API Console.
- Fixing a bug where several servers would be spawned when the server exec has been manually set to something other than default "eyetribe.exe" in the configuration file.
- Setting minimum transition time between calibration points to 1ms

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 13 Mar 2015, 17:09

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for Windows v0.9.49 released

2014-12-06T00:47:14+02:00

This time we are bumping the version number from 0.9.41 to 0.9.49, there's been a couple of candidates that never made it. Mac version got a great deal of focus, now that OSX is working we return to Windows. The newest version contains a number of improvement across the board. Lower resource utilization, improved stability, better eye tracking performance. We've also made some improvements to the SDKs and samples found on our GitHub.

You can get the new version at the download page (login required).

Change log:

EyeTribe Server
- Improved one-eye tracking
- Improved network stability
- Lower CPU utilization and latency
- Fixed crash when device was connected to a USB 2.0 port at startup
- Server executable is now digitally signed
- Faster response time when calibrating with feedback-reporting

EyeTribe UI
- Updated to .Net 4.0 framework, no longer requires activation of legacy framework on Windows 8.
- Optimized the graphical look of target for optimal fixation based on a publication by Thaler et al (2013) “What is the best fixation target? The effect of target shape on stability of fixational eye movements”
- Improved built-in calibration stability, added the option for selecting the transition time between points (e.g. animation speed).
- Added dialog to reconfigure and restart server from UI (e.g. change frame-rate etc.), found under the Systems tab.
- Added keyboard shortcuts to perform basic operations, the hot-keys are:
Shift-C, start calibration
Shift-M, enable/disable mouse cursor redirect
- Added option in config file to enable/disable auto-starting of the server, located in tetbasicsettings.xml. Corresponding tag is True
- Minor UI updates, fixed calibration area size text fields, values are reset when selecting the same monitor again. Reworked the demo-mode flow and logic.
- Overall stability improvements and performance optimizations (minor)
- Updated to run with latest C# SDK (client, trackbox & calibrationrunner)

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 06 Dec 2014, 00:47

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.48 released

2014-11-21T12:29:13+02:00

A new version of The Eye Tribe Tracker SDK for OS X, 0.9.48, is available for download. This release brings support for OS X 10.10 (Yosemite), as well as improvements on both EyeTribe Server and UI. You can get the new version at the download page (login required).

Change log:

EyeTribe Server
- Yosemite (OS X 10.10) supported
- Improved performance

EyeTribe UI
- Corrected and adjusted for Yosemite
- Bugfixes to the UI

Statistics: Posted by skataJavier — 21 Nov 2014, 12:29

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.46 released

2014-10-31T16:14:58+02:00

A new version of The Eye Tribe Tracker SDK for OSX, 0.9.46, is available for download. This release greatly improves tracking robustness by reducing the amount of jitter (as reported by a number of uses). Get the new version at the download page (login required).

Note: support for OSX 10.10 Yosemite has yet to be verified (issues has been reported by QA). We aim at fixing the 10.10 with the next update.

Change log:

EyeTribe Server
- Improved tracking significantly
- Improved one eye tracking
- Improved network stability
- Fixed crashes that could happen at startup
- Fixed a Frame timestamp issue that produced wrong timestamps
- Works on OS X 10.8 and 10.9

EyeTribe UI
- Fixed several crashes and UI stalls
- Added server awareness

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 31 Oct 2014, 16:14

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.41 released

2014-08-14T16:01:04+02:00

A new version of The Eye Tribe Tracker SDK for OSX, 0.9.41, is available for download. This is a maintenance release aiming at further improving stability and robustness by fixing bugs reported on the forum and internal QA. Get the new version at the download page (login required)

Changelog

EyeTribe Server
- Improved detection for user wearing glasses
- Fixed crashes during server and device initialization (Segmentation faults)
- Fixed AVF property crashes on OS X 10.8
- Added OS X version awareness. The software will not run on systems that are not supported

The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.41 has been tested on Mac Mini and MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. If you experience issues or have feedback please report it on the Issues and Troubleshooting - OSX forum.

Statistics: Posted by skataJavier — 14 Aug 2014, 16:01

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for Windows v0.9.41 released

2014-08-13T19:02:12+02:00

A new version, 0.9.41, is out. This is a maintenance release aiming at further improving stability and robustness by fixing bugs reported on the forum and internal QA. Get the new version at the download page (login required).

Changelog

EyeTribe Server
- Improved detection for user wearing glasses
- Minor stability and performance improvements

The installer is now digitally signed.

Statistics: Posted by skataJavier — 13 Aug 2014, 19:02

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.40 released

2014-08-01T17:38:35+02:00

A new version of The Eye Tribe Tracker SDK for OSX, 0.9.40, is available for download. This is a maintenance release aiming at further improving stability and robustness by fixing bugs reported on the forum and internal QA. Get the new version at the download page (login required)

Changelog

EyeTribe Server
- Added support for 60Hz mode
- Added support for disconnect/reconnect of the tracker, including launching the server without the tracker connected
- Supports newer tracker firmware up to rev 293
- Improved detection in some corner cases
- Fixed memory leaks
- Added additional data value validations from messages sent by clients
- Removed non-critical messages from the log file

EyeTribe UI
- Fixed issue pressing Calibration button multiple times
- Fixed color selector window not closing
- Fixed reporting if tracker device is connected or not
- Fixed calibration rating bug show wrong quality on first calibration
- Fixed arbitrary system exit when pressing any button after calibration
- Fixed API Console navigation bar being stuck to the left
- Fixed trackbox sometimes hanging when starting up even if device is connected

The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.40 has been tested on Mac Mini and MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. If you experience issues or have feedback please report it on the Issues and Troubleshooting - OSX forum.

Statistics: Posted by skataJavier — 01 Aug 2014, 17:38

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker v0.9.40 released

2014-07-29T18:46:27+02:00

A new version, 0.9.40, is out. This is a maintenance release aiming at further improving stability and robustness by fixing bugs reported on the forum and internal QA. Get the new version at the download page (login required)

Changelog

EyeTribe Server
- Improved detection in some corner cases
- Fixed memory leaks
- Supports newer tracker firmware up to rev 293
- Fixed crash when tracker was connected to a USB2 host
- Added additional data value validations from messages sent by clients
- Removed non-critical messages from the log file

EyeTribe UI
- Improvements to Calibration feedback transmission
- TETConsole, minor UI bug corrections
- TETUI. Fixed pre-selection of calibration background and points color and load/save. Fixed issue when calibration area was set to 0x0, now it must be a minimum of 100x100 pixels.

SDK and Samples
- Updates to TETControls are available on GitHub.

Statistics: Posted by skataJavier — 29 Jul 2014, 18:46

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.39 released

2014-06-28T11:54:57+02:00

We are proud to announce the first beta release (v0.9.39) of The Eye Tribe Tracker SDK for OS X. The software package contains two modules: the EyeTribe Server and the EyeTribe UI.

The EyeTribe Server is in charge of starting the hardware device and providing eye tracking information through a TCP socket. Client applications can connect to the Server using this socket and get the stream of gaze coordinates.

The EyeTribe UI is provided as a sample application and allows you to start the eye tracking engine, calibrate the system to your eyes, and control the mouse cursor with your eye movements.

The Objective-C SDK will be available on our GitHub in the coming days.

The current version of The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X is in beta. We have identified the following known issues, which will be fixed in a future release:
- The eye tracker device must be plugged in the USB 3.0 port before starting the EyeTribe Server, otherwise it will not be recognized
- The EyeTribe Server needs to be started before launching the EyeTribe UI, otherwise the EyeTribe UI might crash
- The server currently supports framerates up to 30 Hz. 60 Hz will be supported in a later release

The Eye Tribe Tracker for OS X v0.9.39 has been tested on Mac Mini and MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. If you experience issues or have feedback please report it on the Issues and Troubleshooting - OSX forum.

Statistics: Posted by skataJavier — 28 Jun 2014, 11:54

Announcements • Re: The Eye Tribe Tracker v0.9.35 released

2014-05-23T09:57:22+02:00

We have released new versions of the C# and Java SDKs as well as updated samples. Go check out the changelogs of release 0.9.35 on GitHub.

Statistics: Posted by skataAnders — 23 May 2014, 09:57

Announcements • Re: The Eye Tribe Tracker v0.9.35 released

2014-05-13T15:11:37+02:00

We have released new versions of the C# and Java SDKs. Go check out the changelogs of SDK release 0.9.34 on GitHub.

Statistics: Posted by skataAnders — 13 May 2014, 15:11

Announcements • The Eye Tribe Tracker v0.9.35 released

2014-05-07T18:58:10+02:00

A new version, 0.9.35, is out. This is a maintenance release aiming at further improving stability and robustness by fixing bugs reported on the forum and internal QA. Get the new version at the download page (login required)

Changelog

EyeTribe Server
- Allowing server to accept non-local connections by argument “--remote=true”
- Improved device connectivity and state monitoring
- Fixed duplicate broadcast notification when tracker is reconnected.
- Fixed issue with connection timeout when computer has been sleeping
- Minor performance improvements

EyeTribe UI
- Calibration screen is set correctly on server on application start
- Fixed poor accuracy “star indicator” when calibration was actually good (related to above)
- Only showing “Start server” dialog once and closing dialog on exit
- Allowing calibration feedback reporting to be canceled. Less jitter in the progress reporting.
- Improved detection of screens connected via HDMI
- Minor bugfixes

SDK and Samples
Only minor bug fixes, the source code on Github will updated shortly.

Known issues:
- In some rare cases the calibration result window may report a "REDO" result even though the calibration result is actually good. We are looking into this issue.

Statistics: Posted by skataMartin — 07 May 2014, 18:58