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Egocentric Gaze Estimation via Neck-Mounted Camera

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-02-13 v1

Abstract

This paper introduces neck-mounted view gaze estimation, a new task that estimates user gaze from the neck-mounted camera perspective. Prior work on egocentric gaze estimation, which predicts device wearer's gaze location within the camera's field of view, mainly focuses on head-mounted cameras while alternative viewpoints remain underexplored. To bridge this gap, we collect the first dataset for this task, consisting of approximately 4 hours of video collected from 8 participants during everyday activities. We evaluate a transformer-based gaze estimation model, GLC, on the new dataset and propose two extensions: an auxiliary gaze out-of-bound classification task and a multi-view co-learning approach that jointly trains head-view and neck-view models using a geometry-aware auxiliary loss. Experimental results show that incorporating gaze out-of-bound classification improves performance over standard fine-tuning, while the co-learning approach does not yield gains. We further analyze these results and discuss implications for neck-mounted gaze estimation.

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@article{arxiv.2602.11669,
  title  = {Egocentric Gaze Estimation via Neck-Mounted Camera},
  author = {Haoyu Huang and Yoichi Sato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11669},
  year   = {2026}
}
R2 v1 2026-07-01T10:33:11.287Z