ChangeLog

GazeParser 0.11.1

(released 2019/04/24)

• CHANGED GazeParser

  • FIXED: Bug in calcurating threshold for Microsaccade detection is fixed.

  • FIXED: Bug in getCameraImageSize() is fixed.

  • FIXED: "config" option is added to Dummy backend of GazeParser.TrackingTools.

  注釈

  SimpleGazeTracker 0.11.1 is not released. Please use SimpleGazeTracker 0.11.0.

GazeParser 0.11.0

(released 2018/08/27)

• CHANGED GazeParser

  • CHANGED: GazeParser supports both Python 2 and 3. (Tested on Python 2.7 and 3.6)

  • CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools no longer supoorts VisionEgg-backend. Only PsychoPy is supported.

  • CHANGED: EyelinkToGazeParser() and TobiiToGazeParser() are removed from GazeParser.Converter

• CHANGED GazeParser PsychoPy components

  • CHANGED: PsychoPyComponent supports PsychoPy 1.90.0 or later.

  • CHANGED: PsychoPyComponent no longer supports PsychoPy older than 1.84.0.

• CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker

  • CHANGED: Dialog for camera setup guide is shown at the first run.

  • CHANGED: HTML help can be opened by "H" key.

GazeParser 0.10.0

(released 2016/09/30)

• CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools

  • ADDED: Manual calibration mode is added.

• CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker

  • ADDED: Manual calibration mode is added.

• ADDED: DirectShow edition is added to support DirectShow cameras (2017/03/03).

GazeParser 0.9.0

(released 2015/10/08)

• 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.

GazeParser 0.8.2

(released 2015/06/03)

• 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.

GazeParser 0.8.1

(released 2015/03/25)

• 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

  • ADDED: A new option is added to GazeParserInit to toggle sending PsychcoPy's monitor settings to SimpleGazeTracker.

  • CHANGED: Time gap between SimpleGazeTracker and experiments built with PsychoPyComponent is reduced.

  • CHANGED: Unnecessary log messages generated by PsychoPyComponents are suppressed.

  • CHANGED: GazeParserRec component sends a 'rec_sync' message when initialization of recording is finished.

  • CHANGED: Default parameters of PsychoPy Components are modified.

• FIXED: GazeParser.Configuration

  • FIXED: getParametersAsDict didn't return current values but default values.

• FIXED: GazeParser.TrackingTools

  • FIXED: Units of current gaze position was not properly converted to 'pix'.

  注釈

  PsychoPyComponents included in 0.8.1 cannot be used with current version of PsychoPy (1.82.01). Please download Components0.8.1-PsychoPy1.82.01.zip.

GazeParser 0.8.0

(released 2015/03/14)

• 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

GazeParser 0.7.0

(released 2014/08/12)

• 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.

GazeParser 0.6.6

(released 2013/12/10)

• 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.

GazeParser 0.6.5

(released 2013/05/31)

• 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 getSpatialError() did not support 'ma' option.

  • FIXED: 'units' option of getSpatialError() 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.

GazeParser 0.6.4

(released 2013/03/29)

• 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. This command is not compatible with previous versions of GazeParser.TrackingTools.

  • CHANGED: Log messages are added.

  • CHANGED: initCamera() and saveCameraParameters() are changed to receive no arguments.

  • CHANGED: Name of executable file is changed from simplegazetracker to sgtsrv (Linux, MacOS X).

  • 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: A new option "ma" is added to verifyFixation() and getEyePosition().

  • 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.

GazeParser 0.6.3

(released 2013/02/21)

• 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 not '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.

GazeParser 0.6.2

(released 2012/12/12)

• 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. For example, when 'data.csv' is passed as the name of a new data file and 'data.csv' already exists, the existing 'data.csv' is renamed to 'data.csv.0'. If 'data.csv.0' also exists, SimpleGazeTracker try to rename it to 'data.csv.1', 'data.csv.2', ...

• 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.

GazeParser 0.6.1

(released 2012/11/30)

• CHANGED: SimpleGazeTracker

  • FIXED: TCP/IP behavior is modified to prevent program halt in Ubuntu.

  • 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 TrackingTools configuration file.

  • FIXED: TCP/IP behavior is modified to prevent program halt in Ubuntu.

  • 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 converet 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

GazeParser 0.6.0

(released 2012/11/01)

• 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.

GazeParser 0.5.3

(released 2012/10/15)

• 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 (0.12.0 or later) to disable/enable this feature. See Format of the SimpleGazeTracker CSV data file (0.5.3 to 0.6.6) 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 added to GazeParser.Core.GazeData.

  • ADDED: A parameter 'OUTPUT_PUPILSIZE' is added to SimpleGazeTracker.

• ADDED: 'font' option is added 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.

GazeParser 0.5.2

(released 2012/08/27)

SimpleGazeTracker is not updated. Please use SimpleGazeTracker 0.5.1 with GazeParser 0.5.2.

• 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.

GazeParser 0.5.1

(released 2012/07/31)

• 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.

GazeParser 0.5.0

(released 2012/06/28)

• CHANGED: GazeParser.Tracker is renamed to SimpleGazeTracker and now runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

  • ADDED: There are three editions of SimpleGazeTracker, OptiTrack, InterfaceGPC5300, and OpenCV.

    • OpenCV edition runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

    • Optitrack and InterfaceGPC5300 editions run on Windows only.

  • CHANGED: Location of configuration files is moved from %APPDATA%GazeTracker to %USERPROFILE%SimpleGazeTracker in Windows.

  • CHANGED: New SimpleGazeTracker depends on SDL, SDL_net and SDL_ttf instead of DirectX and WinSock.

  • ADDED: Tentative binocular recording mode.

  • ADDED: Application log is output to Tracker.log in the data directory.

• ADDED: GazeParser.Core.GazeData.findMessage()

GazeParser 0.4.1

(released 2012/05/25)

• ADDED: GazeParser.Converter.TobiiToGazeParser()

• CHANGED: GazeParser.TrackingTools module is updated.

  • GazeParser.TrackingTools.BaseController.calibrationLoop() returns 'space' and 'q' instead of pygame.locals.K_SPACE and pygame.locals.K_q.

  • GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerPsychoPyBackend supports pyglet window.

  • GazeParser.TrackingTools.ControllerPsychoPyBackend supports unit options.

  注釈

  Gaze position is recorded in pix in the data file.

• ADDED: Installer of CameraLink edition of GazeParser.Tracker is released. CameraLink image grabbers manufactured by Interface Corporation is necessary to use this edition.

• FIXED: Installer of GazeParser.Tracker was localized to Japanese. Localization of the installer is now set to 'Neutral'.

• CHANGED: GazeParser.Tracker outputs calibration target poisitions to the data file. This information would be helpful to convert the units of target position when calibration target positions are specified in non-'pix' units.

• CHANGED: GazeParser.app.Viewer is updated. * Messages are plotted in XY-T mode. * Number of fixations are plotted in XY mode.

• FIXED: GazeParser.Core.GazeData._getEventListByTime could not deal with data without any saccade.

• FIXED: bug with GazeParser.Microsaccade module.

• FIXED: process of GazeParser.Tracker did not terminate when multiple errors occurred while initialization.

• FIXED: GazeParser.app.Converters.interactiveConfig did not work.

GazeParser 0.4.0

(released 2012/05/10)

• First release.