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Object-aware Gaze Target Detection

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-09-28 v2

Abstract

Gaze target detection aims to predict the image location where the person is looking and the probability that a gaze is out of the scene. Several works have tackled this task by regressing a gaze heatmap centered on the gaze location, however, they overlooked decoding the relationship between the people and the gazed objects. This paper proposes a Transformer-based architecture that automatically detects objects (including heads) in the scene to build associations between every head and the gazed-head/object, resulting in a comprehensive, explainable gaze analysis composed of: gaze target area, gaze pixel point, the class and the image location of the gazed-object. Upon evaluation of the in-the-wild benchmarks, our method achieves state-of-the-art results on all metrics (up to 2.91% gain in AUC, 50% reduction in gaze distance, and 9% gain in out-of-frame average precision) for gaze target detection and 11-13% improvement in average precision for the classification and the localization of the gazed-objects. The code of the proposed method is publicly available.

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@article{arxiv.2307.09662,
  title  = {Object-aware Gaze Target Detection},
  author = {Francesco Tonini and Nicola Dall'Asen and Cigdem Beyan and Elisa Ricci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09662},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted to ICCV 2023. Code is available at https://github.com/francescotonini/object-aware-gaze-target-detection

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