It’s Written All Over Your Face: Full-Face Appearance-Based Gaze Estimation
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, Mario Fritz, Andreas Bulling
arXiv:1611.08860, pp. 1–10, 2016.
Abstract
Eye gaze is an important non-verbal cue for human affect analysis. Recent gaze estimation work indicated that information from the full face region can benefit performance. Pushing this idea further, we propose an appearance-based method that, in contrast to a long-standing line of work in computer vision, only takes the full face image as input. Our method encodes the face image using a convolutional neural network with spatial weights applied on the feature maps to flexibly suppress or enhance information in different facial regions. Through extensive evaluation, we show that our full-face method significantly outperforms the state of the art for both 2D and 3D gaze estimation, achieving improvements of up to 14.3% on MPIIGaze and 27.7% on EYEDIAP for person-independent 3D gaze estimation. We further show that this improvement is consistent across different illumination conditions and gaze directions and particularly pronounced for the most challenging extreme head poses.Links
Paper: zhang16_arxiv.pdf
Paper Access: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08860
BibTeX
@techreport{zhang16_arxiv,
title = {It's Written All Over Your Face: Full-Face Appearance-Based Gaze Estimation},
author = {Zhang, Xucong and Sugano, Yusuke and Fritz, Mario and Bulling, Andreas},
year = {2016},
pages = {1--10},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08860}
}
