3D mapping of visual attention for smart rehabilitation

The estimation of human attention as input modality has been suggested as a method for an advanced human-computer interaction. With an increasing interest and development of augmented reality tools, the advent of Microsoft HoloLens glasses and increasingly affordable wearable eye-tracking devices, monitoring the human attention will soon become ubiquitous. Also visual heat-maps have become very popular and simpler to create in the 2D space over the last few years. They are very compelling and can be effective in summarizing and communicating data. The innovation in our work is the implementation of visual 3D heat-maps of the real world combined with advanced Computer Vision libraries. Finally, we have incorporated the visual 3D heat-maps for rehabilitation purposes that deal with the loss of concentration in children with learning disabilities, or disabled patients to select items of interest for them across a room.