PURPOSE To examine the possible role of corneal sensitivity and tear film quality in triggering a blink by investigating the relationship between blink rate, central corneal sensitivity threshold (CST), ocular surface temperature (OST), tear meniscus height (TMH), tear film quality (noninvasive tear break-up time [NIBUT]), and tear film lipid pattern under normal conditions. METHODS Forty-two...

A real-time algorithm to detect eye blinks in a video sequence from a standard camera is proposed. Recent landmark detectors, trained on in-the-wild datasets exhibit excellent robustness against face resolution, varying illumination and facial expressions. We show that the landmarks are detected precisely enough to reliably estimate the level of the eye openness. The proposed algorithm therefor...

Although we blink every 4 to 6 seconds, we notice neither the act of blinking nor the mini-blackouts they cause. A new study using imaging techniques identifies the neural structures in humans involved in suppressing vision processing and visual awareness during blinking.

Blinks are known to change the kinematic properties of horizontal saccades, probably by influencing the saccadic premotor circuit. The neuronal basis of this effect could be explained by changes in the activity of omnipause neurons in the nucleus raphe interpositus or in the saccade-related burst neurons of the superior colliculus. Omnipause neurons cease discharge during both saccades and verg...

The attentional blink paradigm tests attention by overloading it: a list of stimuli is presented very rapidly one after another at the same location on a computer screen, each item overwriting the last, and participants monitor the list using two criteria [e.g. detect the target (red letter) and identify the probe (letter p)]. If the interval between the target and the probe is greater than abo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate possible alterations in dopaminergic function in children with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome by evaluating spontaneous eye blink rate, a putative measure of central dopaminergic function. DESIGN Evaluation of previously videotaped test sessions of a consecutive case series of 50 children (mean age, 5.2 years; range, 2-12 years) with acquired immunodeficiency synd...

As field of signal processing is widening in various security and surveillance applications, motivated the interest for implementing better application with less complications. A non-intrusive machine vision based concepts is used to simulate Drowsiness Detection System. The system is consisting of web camera which placed in a way that it records driver’s head movements in order to detect drows...

This work is motivated by our goal of providing non-contact head and eye based control of computer systems for people with motor difficulties. The system described here uses spatio-temporal filtering and variance maps to locate the head and find the eye-feature points respectively. These feature points are accurately tracked in the succeeding frames by using a modified version of the Lucas-Kana...

Sensory deprivation sheds light on cortical plasticity mechanisms, but recovery of lost brain function may bear the greatest clinical relevance. Ramoa and colleagues now find that binocular recovery from monocular occlusion can be extraordinarily rapid, independent of protein synthesis, and precise. Reactivation of latent connections may then reverse amblyopia.

Recent models have suggested an important role for neuromodulation in explaining trial-to-trial adaptations in cognitive control. The adaptation-by-binding model (Verguts & Notebaert, Psychological review, 115(2), 518-525, 2008), for instance, suggests that increased cognitive control in response to conflict (e.g., incongruent flanker stimulus) is the result of stronger binding of stimulus, act...