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GazeParser Changelog

What's new in GazeParser 0.10.0

Oct 21, 2016
  • CHANGED GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • ADDED: Manual calibration mode is added.
  • CHANGED SimpleGazeTracker
  • ADDED: Manual calibration mode is added.

New in GazeParser 9.0.0 (Nov 6, 2015)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • ADDED: Linux version of FlyCapture2 edition is released. Name of executable file is sgtsrv-flycap.
  • ADDED: Camera image can be saved by pressing “I” key during preview.
  • ADDED: Camera image can be viewed during recording by pressing “L” key. Note that performance of SimpleGazeTracker degrades by drawing camera image.
  • ADDED: Error dialog is shown when initialization of SimpleGazeTracker is failed. Configuration directory can be opened from the dialog.
  • ADDED: GazeParser
  • setup_for_psychopy.py script is added to help installing GazeParser to Standalone PsychoPy.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer
  • Default data viewer is replaced with wxPython-based version. Previous (Tkinter-based) viewer is available as GazeParser/app/tk_Viewer.py.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • ADDED: Camera image can be saved by pressing “I” key during preview.
  • FIXED: getEyePosition() and getEyePositionList() did not work in the dummy mode.

New in GazeParser 0.8.2 (Jun 23, 2015)

  • ADDED: New Data Viewer
  • ADDED: Prototype version of a new, wxPython-based data viewer is added.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • ADDED: A new command “getCameraImageSize” is added.
  • CHANGED: Camera mode is changed from GrayscaleMode to MJPEGMode in order to improve performance on V120slim (OptiTrack edition).
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • ADDED: getCameraImageSize() and fitImageBufferToTracker() are added to fit size of the preview image buffer to SimpleGazeTracker’s camera image buffer.
  • ADDED: setCurrentScreenParamsToConfig() is added to set current screen parameters to GazeParser’s configuration.
  • CHANGED: PsychoPyComponents
  • ADDED: GazeParserGetPos component is added to get the latest gaze position data.
  • ADDED: A new option “Fit Preview Buffer” is added.
  • CHANGED: TRACKER_ORIGIN, VIEWING_DISTANCE, DOTS_PER_CENTIMETER_H and DOTS_PER_CENTIMETER_V are supported by “Use Monitor Info” option.
  • CHANGED: GazeParserRec component outputs “sync_rec” message to PsychoPy’s log file.
  • CHANGED: GazeParserMessage component outputs event log.
  • FIXED: “Message (Start)” and “Message (End)” can be set to “set every repeat”.
  • FIXED: “Mode” option of GazeParserInit component did not work properly.

New in GazeParser 0.8.1 (Mar 27, 2015)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • CHANGED: “MINPOINTS” and “MAXPOINTS” are removed automatically from the CONFIG file. You don’t have to edit CONFIG file manually. Note that values of these parameters are lost.
  • CHANGED PsychoPyComponents:
  • A new option is added to GazeParserInit to toggle sending PsychcoPy’s monitor settings to SimpleGazeTracker.
  • Time gap between SimpleGazeTracker and experiments built with PsychoPyComponent is reduced.
  • Unnecessary log messages generated by PsychoPyComponents are suppressed.
  • GazeParserRec component sends a ‘rec_sync’ message when initialization of recording is finished.
  • Default parameters of PsychoPy Components are modified.
  • FIXED GazeParser.Configuration:
  • FIXED: getParametersAsDict didn’t return current values but default values.
  • FIXED GazeParser.TrackingTools:
  • Units of current gaze position was not properly converted to ‘pix’.

New in GazeParser 0.8.0 (Mar 25, 2015)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • CHANGED: Width and height are used to select pupil candidate instead of contour length. Use MIN_PUPIL_WIDTH and MAX_PUPIL_WIDTH to specify acceptable pupil size (unit is percentage of ROI width)
  • CHANGED: Percentage of dark pixels in pupil candidates are checked to improve pupil detection.
  • CHANGED: Calibration results are output to data file.
  • CHANGED: “MINPOINTS” and “MAXPOINTS” options are obsolete in this version.
  • ADDED: “saveCalValResultsDetail” command is added to save raw calibration data.
  • CHANGED GazeParser.Core:
  • ADDED: checkVersion option to GazeParser.Utility.load().
  • ADDED: GazeParser.Core.CalPointData is added to hold calibration data.
  • CHANGED: Data attribute ‘CalPointData’ is added to GazeParser.Core.GazeData.
  • CHANGED GazeParser.Converter:
  • GazeParser.Converte.TrackerToGazeParser() supports calibration precision/accuracy data of SimpleGazeTracker 0.8.0.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • Raw calibration/validation data can be saved to SimpleGazeTracker data file (GazeParser.TrackingTools).
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py)
  • fix error in combining data files (Viewer.py).
  • ADDED: Custom components for PsychoPy Builder

New in GazeParser 0.7.0 (Aug 14, 2014)

  • CHANGED SimpleGazeTracker:
  • ADDED: Measurement Computing’s USB-IO units are supported. The “Universal Library” is used on Windows, and the “DAQFlex” is used on Linux.
  • ADDED: New parameters, USBIO_BOARD, USBIO_AD, USBIO_DI and USB_USE_THREAD are added to SimpleGazeTracker configuration file.
  • CHANGED: Version of libraries are updated: OpenCV2.4.9, FlyCapture2.6.3.4, OptiTrack CameraSDK 1.5.1.
  • FIXED: Decimation method is fixed in SimpleGazeTracker Optitrack edition.
  • FIXED: Set IRFilter=true in SimpleGazeTracker Optitrack edition.
  • CHANGED GazeParser.Core:
  • ADDED: Support USB-IO data recorded by SimpleGazeTracker.
  • CHANGED GazeParser.Converter:
  • ADDED: Support USB-IO data recorded by SimpleGazeTracker.
  • CHANGED GazeParser.TrackingTools:
  • FIXED: Pillow is supported.
  • FIXED: ‘units’ option is removed from setPos() from GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerPsychoPyBackend.
  • CHANGED Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py):
  • FIXED: Pillow is supported.
  • FIXED: Previous directory is set to initial directory of the File dialogs (open, save...).
  • FIXED: Hide ‘Exit’ menu of ConfigEditor to prevent closing data viewer when configuration dialog is opened from the viewer.

New in GazeParser 0.6.6 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker:
  • CHANGED: Parameter directory and data directory can be changed with using command line option. Please see SimpleGazeTracker commandline options for detail.
  • CHANGED: Source files for Windows and Linux were integrated.
  • CHANGED: GPC5300 edition supports WOW64 envirionment. This means that GPC5300 edition can run on 64bit Windows 7/8.
  • CHANGED: OptiTrack CameraSDK is used instead of OptiTrack 2D SDK to build OptiTrack edition. Thanks to this modification, OptiTrack edition can run on 64bit Windows 8.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Core:
  • ADDED: Data attribute named ‘recordingDate’ is added, that holds when the data was recorded.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Configuration:
  • ADDED: “RESAMPLING” option is added to control data resampling during data conversion See Resampling data for detail.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Converter:
  • CHANGED: Data resampling is supported.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • CHANGED: Default calibration target is filled because the target was not properly drawn on some graphic cards (PsychoPyBackend).
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Utility:
  • ADDED: compareVersion(), checkAttributes() and rebuildData() are added to load data that were converted with older versions of GazeParser.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py):
  • CHANGED: Parameters can be exported from “Convert SimpleGazeTracker CSV” dialog.
  • CHANGED: Checkmark is drawn on [View] menu to indicate current plot mode.
  • CHANGED: Only number of converted files is displayed when more than 16 files are converted at once.
  • CHANGED: Data viewer tries to rebuild old data if it doesn’t have newly added attributes.
  • FIXED: “saveas” is called if name is not specified. (ConfigEditor)
  • FIXED: Data export didn’t work correctly.
  • FIXED: Aspect ratio T-XY plot was not correctly updated.
  • FIXED: Stimulus image was not correctly rendered.

New in GazeParser 0.6.5 (Jun 3, 2013)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • ADDED: SimpleGazeTracker GPC5300 edition supports camera-specific data. Status if digital input port on the interface board is output to the data file.
  • ADDED: A new parameter, BLUR_FILTER_SIZE, is added to SimpleGazeTracker FlyCapture2 edition to reduce image noize.
  • CHANGED: Calibration results summary is simplified.
  • CHANGED: Default installation directory of sgtsrv is change to /usr/local/bin. Default installation directory of configuration files (CONFIG, CONFIG_OPENCV) and font file (FreeSans.ttf) are changed to /usr/local/lib/simplegazetracker.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker tries to find configurations file in the directory where executable binary is installed at first. Then, tries to find them in /usr/local/lib/simplegazetracker, /usr/lib/simplegazetracker and finally in the current directory.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker tries to find font file in the directory where executable binary is installed at first. Then, tries to find them in /usr/local/lib/simplegazetracker, /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont and finally in the current directory.
  • FIXED: Several bugs are fixed.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • CHANGED: Calibration results summary is simplified.
  • CHANGED: Validation checks whether calibration has been performed or not. If calibration has not been performed, validation is not started.
  • FIXED: verifyFixation() crashed because getEyePosition() did not support ‘ma’ option.
  • FIXED: ‘units’ option of getEyePosition() did not work properly.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Converter
  • ADDED: TrackerToGazeParser() supports camera-specific data.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Core
  • ADDED: Data attribute named ‘CameraSpecificData’ is added to store camera-specific data. hasCameraSpecificData() is added to test whether the data has camera-specific data.
  • ADDED: findIndexFromTime() is added to get index of sample that is nearest to the time given by the argument.

New in GazeParser 0.6.4 (Mar 29, 2013)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • ADDED: Thread-mode is adde to SimpleGazeTracker FlyCapture2 edition. “USE_THREAD” option is added to select threading or non-threading mode. SLEEP_DURATION option is added to save CPU resource when FPS is low.
  • ADDED: “getEyePositionList” command is added to get a list of latest gaze position data during recording.
  • ADDED: “getWholeEyePositionList” and “getWholeMessageList” commands are added to transfer data at the end of each recording.
  • ADDED: “isBinocularMode” command is added to check recording mode.
  • CHANGED; A new option is added to “getEyePosition” command to get moving-average of gaze position.
  • CHANGED: Log messages are added.
  • CHANGED: initCamera() and saveCameraParameters() are changed to receive no arguments.
  • FIX: Application was not properly closed when running in non-thread mode (OpenCV Edition).
  • FIX: Command after “insertSettings” was ignored.
  • FIX: Message buffer was not correctly initialized at the begining of recording.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • ADDED: Following methods are added to support new functions of SimpleGazeTracker.
  • getEyePositionList()
  • getWholeEyePositionList()
  • getWholeMessageList()
  • isBinocularMode()
  • ADDED: isDummy() is added to check whether tracker is running in dummy mode or not.
  • CHANGED:
  • FIX: getCalibrationResults, getCalibrationResultsDetail and getEyePosition failed when non-float value was received.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py)
  • FIX: Latency data could not be exported.

New in GazeParser 0.6.3 (Feb 21, 2013)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker:
  • ADDED: FlyCapture2 edition is added to support Point Grey Flea3 USB3.0 camera (FL3-U3-13Y3M-C). Currently, this edition runs only on Windows.
  • CHANGED: Windows Installers of SimpleGazeTracker for Windows are build by VisualStudio 2010 and OpenCV 2.4.3.
  • CHANGED: Camera image is visible during performing getSpatialError(). This will help adjusting camera settings when getSpatialError() fails.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker checks CONFIG and copy default CONFIG when CONFIG is not found.
  • CHANGED: Detailed error messages are output to log file when CONFIG is not found in the installation directory.
  • CHANGED: New icon
  • CHANGED: GazePraser.Core:
  • ADDED: delete(), updateMessage(), deleteMessage() and insertNewMessage() are added to edit messages.
  • ADDED: sortMessagesByTime() and sortEventListByTime() are added to sort messages and events when messages are inserted or edited.
  • ADDED: getSacAmp() is added to get a list of apmlitudes of saccades.
  • CHANGED: Following methods returns subset of data when a list of indices is passed.
  • getFixDur()
  • getFixCenter()
  • getFixTime()
  • getBlinkTime()
  • getMsgTime()
  • getBlinkTime()
  • getSacLen()
  • getSacDur()
  • getSacTime().
  • ADDED: GazeParser.Region:
  • This submodule is experimental. This module is called from Data Viewer to count fixations in rectangular or circular regions.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools:
  • CHANGED: Background stimuli can be presented while performing getSpatialError() and verifyFixation().
  • CHANGED: Current gaze position and limit of gaze position error can be presented on the screen by pressing a key. This will help adjusting camera settings when verifyFixation() fails.
  • FIXED: Sleep 0.5 sec after verifyFixation() successfully finished.
  • FIXED: PsychoPy-based dummy controller’s getEyePosition() works properly when the value of ‘units’ is other than ‘pix’.
  • FIXED: ‘message’ option of PsychoPy-based getSpatialError() did not work.
  • FIXED: Unnecessary messages in PsychoPy logfile (e.g. updating camera preview image while performing doCalibration()) are suppressed.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Converter:
  • FIXED: TrackerToGazeParser() failed data conversion when no saccade candidates are found in the data.
  • FIXED: TrackerToGazeParser() failed data conversion when there is no vaid gaze data in a certain trial.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Utility:
  • ADDED: splitFilenames() is moved from GazeParser/app/Converters.py.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py):
  • ADDED: Heat-map plot and scatter plot of fixations. Plots can be selected from ‘View’ menu.
  • ADDED: Heat-map, scatter and XY plot can be superimposed on stimulus image. Stimulus image can be specified for each trial by inserting ‘!STIMIMAGE’ message.
  • ADDED: ‘Jump to ...’ is added to ‘View’ menu to provide quick switching of trials.
  • ADDED: ‘Saccade latency’ is added to ‘Analysis’ menu to get a list of saccade onset time relative to inserted messages.
  • ADDED: ‘Clear’ button is added to clear selection in the event list. Selection mode automatically changes to ‘Emphasize’ when selection is cleared.
  • ADDED: Messages can be deleted, inserted and edited by right-clicking on the event list.
  • ADDED: ‘Save’ and ‘Combine data files’ are added to ‘File’ menu.
  • ADDED: Font file selector is added to display non-ascii messages on the data plot.
  • CHANGED: New icon
  • FIXED: ‘Export’ menu did not work properly.
  • FIXED: ‘prev/next trial’ of Interactive configuration window did not work properly.
  • FIXED: A bug in file type is corrected.

New in GazeParser 0.6.2 (Dec 12, 2012)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker logs messages sent with startRecording and stopRecording.
  • CHANGED: A new option to ‘openDataFile’ command to determine whether SimpleGazeTracker overwrits or renames an existing data file.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Core
  • CHANGED: relativeStartTime and relativeEndTime accept MessageData object as th reference time (SaccadeData amd FixationData).
  • FIXED: ‘direction’ is not defined in SaccadeData.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • CHANGED: ‘overwrite’ option is added to ‘GazeParser.TrackingTools.BaseController.openDataFile` to support overwrite/rename feature of SimpleGazeTracker.
  • FIXED: Default IP address did not work correctly.
  • FIXED: Unnecessary warning messages are suppressed when controller is running in a dummy mode.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrajectoryCurvature
  • CHANGED: A new option, ‘ignoreNaN’ is added to GazeParser.TrajectoryCurvature.getAreaCurvature() to calculate area curvature when NaNs are included in gaze trajectory.
  • FIXED: ‘origin’ option of GazeParser.TrajectoryCurvature.getRotatedTrajectory() didn’t work.
  • FIXED: Unnecessary messages are suppressed.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py)
  • FIXED: SCREEN_ORIGIN is correctly recognized in XY-T plot mode.
  • FIXED: Interactive configuration dialog couldn’t save new configuration file.
  • FIXED: Interactive config couldn’t open data file generated by older version of GazeParser.

New in GazeParser 0.6.1 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • FIXED: Spaces and tabs are allowed before and after “=” in SimpleGazeTracker configuration files.
  • CHANGED: “toggleCalResult” command requires a new parameter which directly specify whether calresult should be on/off.
  • CHANGED: Configuration files with section header (e.g. [SimpleGazeTrackerCommon]) are supported to read SimpleGazeTracker configuration files using ConfigParser module. Old format (without section header) is also supported.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Configuration
  • Output warning messages if options are not found in the GazeParser configuration file.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • ADDED: verifyFixation() is added.
  • ADDED: A new option, TRACKER_IP_ADDRESS, is added to customize default SimpleGazeTracker IP address.
  • CHANGED: Mouse buttons can be used instead of keyboard in doCalibration(), doValidation() and getSpatialError().
  • CHANGED: Output warning messages if options are not found in
  • FIXED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerVisionEggBackend halted when event buffer overflowed.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Converter
  • CHANGED: TrackerToGazeParser() reads a GazeParser configration file when the filename is passed as ‘config’ parameter.
  • ADDED: A new parameter, SACCADE_MINIMUM_AMPLITUDE, is added to prevent detecting saccades with small amplitude.
  • FIXED: TrackerToGazeParser() failed to convert data when no saccade candidate was detected.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py)
  • ADDED: Color configuration dialog is added.
  • ADDED: Grid configuration dialog is added.
  • CHANGED: “modifyPlotRange” is removed from the menu.
  • FIXED: interactive configuration
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.Graphics.quickPlot
  • ADDED: New options, xlim, ylim, and units, are added to GazeParser.Graphics.quickPlot().
  • FIXED: some bugs in GazeParser.Graphics.quickPlot() are fixed.
  • Converters MOD: ineffective paramters are disabled in app.Converters.Converter FIX: app.Converters.Converter.useParameters is changed from Tkinter.StringVar to Tkinter.BooleanVar

New in GazeParser 0.6.0 (Nov 1, 2012)

  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • ADDED: Two options, CALTARGET_MOTION_DURATION and CALTARGET_DURATION_PER_POS, are added to customize calibration/validation target motion.
  • ADDED: Two options, NUM_SAMPLES_PER_TRGPOS and CAL_GETSAMPLE_DEALAY, are added to customize calibration data acquisition.
  • ADDED: setCalTargetMotionParams() and setCalSampleAcquisitionParams() are added to overwrite CALTARGET_MOTION_DURATION, CALTARGET_DURATION_PER_POS, NUM_SAMPLES_PER_TRGPOS and CAL_GETSAMPLE_DEALAY.
  • CHANGED: getEyePosition() returns current pupil size.
  • CHANGED: sendMessage(), startRecording() and stopRecording() accepts an unicode string as a message.
  • The message is recorded as an UTF-8 string in SimpleGazeTracker CSV file.
  • CHANGED: Terminator of data sent from SimpleGazeTracker is changed to 0 in all commands. As a result, This version of GazeParser cannot communicate with SimpleGazeTracker 0.5.3 or former.
  • CHANGED: sendSettings() sends parameters in a fixed order.
  • CHANGED: TrackerToGazeParser() accepts UTF-8 messages in SimpleGazeTracker CSV file.
  • CHANGED: Data Viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py)
  • ADDED: Viewer configuration file (Viewer.cfg) is added to customize appearance of Data Viewer.
  • ADDED: A list of recently used directories are added to ‘File’ menu to provide quick access to these directories.
  • CHANGED: UTF-8 messages can be rendered in the plot area. An appropriate font file must be specified in the configuration file.
  • CHANGED: Event list provides quick access to an event by double-clicking an item on the event list.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker CSV file is automatically converted to GazeParser data file when it is opened by Data Viewer.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • CHANGED: “getEyePosition” command returns current pupil size.
  • CHANGED: Terminator of data sent from SimpleGazeTracker is changed to 0 in all commands. As a result, This version of SimpleGazeTracker cannot communicate with GazeParser 0.5.3 or former.
  • ADDED: A new parameter is added to “getCalSample” and “getValSample” commands to customize number of calibration samples per target position.
  • CHANGED: Warning messages are logged when number of calibration samples exceeds MAXCALDATA (=7200).
  • CHANGED: Warning messages are logged when number of calibration positions exceeds MAXCALPOINT (=60).
  • FIXED: GazeParser.Utility.createConfigDir() does not create configuraion directory when running as root (uid=0).
  • FIXED: Default value of ‘font’ parameter of setCalibrationScreen() is fixed.

New in GazeParser 0.5.3 (Oct 15, 2012)

  • CHANGED: Location of configuration files was changed in order to place data files and configuration files to separate directories.
  • CHANGED: [Microsoft Windows] Configuration files are at %AppData%GazeParser and %AppData%SimpleGazeTracker.
  • CHANGED: [Linux and MacOS X] Configuration files are at $HOME/.GazeParser and $HOME/.SimpleGazeTracker.
  • ADDED: Tentative pupillometry support. See Configure SimpleGazeTracker to disable/enable this feature. See Format of the SimpleGazeTracker CSV data file (0.5.3) for new data format.
  • ADDED: SimpleGazeTracker outputs pupil size.
  • ADDED: GazeParser.Converter.TrackerToGazeParser() supports pupil size. Note that EyelinkToGazeParser and TobiiToGazeParser does not support pupil size yet.
  • ADDED: ‘Pupil’ attribulte is appended to GazeParser.Core.GazeData.
  • ADDED: A parameter ‘OUTPUT_PUPILSIZE’ is appended to SimpleGazeTracker.
  • ADDED: ‘font’ option is appended to setCalibrationScreen().
  • ADDED: Appearance of data viewer (GazeParser/app/Viewer.py) can be customized using a configuration file.
  • FIXED: Calibration results display was not correctly drawn when screen width of the Presentation PC was not a mulile of 4 (e.g. 1366pixel).
  • FIXED: Several bugs in the binocular recording mode were fixed.
  • FIXED: Texts on the main plot of data viewer were now correctly clipped.

New in GazeParser 0.5.2 (Aug 27, 2012)

  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.BaseController.calibrationLoop() raises ValueError if calibrationLoop is called before setting calibration area and calibration target positions.
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerVisionEggBackend.setCalibrationTargetStimulus() and GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerPsychoPyBackend.setCalibrationTargetStimulus() support a list of stimulus objects as calibration target.
  • ADDED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.BaseController.updateCalibrationTargetStimulusCallBack() is added to support dynamic calibration target. See Sample 04: Dynamic calibration target for detail.
  • FIXED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerVisionEggBackend.setCalibrationTargetStimulus() did not work correctly.
  • FIXED: Tuple was not accepted by GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerVisionEggBackend.setCalibrationTargetPositions().
  • FIXED: GazeParser.Converter.TrackerToGazeParser() could not convert data files with CR/LF line feed code when running on Linux.
  • FIXED: Size of converter dialog was too small when GazeParser/app/Converters.py was executed on Linux.

New in GazeParser 0.5.1 (Aug 1, 2012)

  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker
  • CHANGED: Pupil detection algorithm is improved. Rate of detection failure is reduced when shadows whose size is similar to pupil size are included in captured images.
  • CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker edition is output to a log file.
  • ADDED: A parameter ‘Camera ID’ is added to OpenCV edition. You can specify which camera should be used when multiple camearas are connected to the Recorder PC.
  • ADDED: A parameter ‘SHOW_DETECTIONERROR_MSG’ is added to all edition.
  • ADDED: Parameters ‘ROI_WIDTH’ and ‘ROI_HEIGHT’ are added to all edition. You can specify a subregion where SimpleGazeTracker searches pupil and Purkinje image.
  • ADDED: Parameters ‘PORT_RECV’ and ‘PORT_SEND’ are added to all edition to customize TCP ports.
  • ADDED: A parameter ‘DELAY_CORRECTION’ is added to all adition .
  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools
  • CHANGED: Dummy mode is improved. You can emurate eye movement with mouse when the controller runs as dummy mode.
  • CHANGED: Parameters ‘port1’ and ‘port2’ of GazeParser.TrackingTools.BaseController.connect() are renamed to portRecv’ and ‘portSend’
  • ADDED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.BaseController.getSpatialError()
  • ADDED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.cameraDelayEstimationHelper()
  • CHANGED: GazeParser Home directory on Win32 is moved from %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%GazeParser to %USERPROFILE%GazeParser.
  • FIXED: GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerPsychoPyBackend.getSpatialError() did not work when ‘units’ was not ‘pix’.
  • FIXED: Some minor bugs.