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GazeFormer-MoE: Context-Aware Gaze Estimation via CLIP and MoE Transformer

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-01-21 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We present a semantics modulated, multi scale Transformer for 3D gaze estimation. Our model conditions CLIP global features with learnable prototype banks (illumination, head pose, background, direction), fuses these prototype-enriched global vectors with CLIP patch tokens and high-resolution CNN tokens in a unified attention space, and replaces several FFN blocks with routed/shared Mixture of Experts to increase conditional capacity. Evaluated on MPIIFaceGaze, EYEDIAP, Gaze360 and ETH-XGaze, our model achieves new state of the art angular errors of 2.49{\deg}, 3.22{\deg}, 10.16{\deg}, and 1.44{\deg}, demonstrating up to a 64% relative improvement over previously reported results. ablations attribute gains to prototype conditioning, cross scale fusion, MoE and hyperparameter. Our code is publicly available at https://github. com/AIPMLab/Gazeformer.

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@article{arxiv.2601.12316,
  title  = {GazeFormer-MoE: Context-Aware Gaze Estimation via CLIP and MoE Transformer},
  author = {Xinyuan Zhao and Xianrui Chen and Ahmad Chaddad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12316},
  year   = {2026}
}

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accepted at ICASSP 2026