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Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding visual content, yet their ability to predict where humans look on user interfaces remains unexplored. We present UIGaze, a study investigating how closely…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Min Song , Yoonseong Lee , Yeonhu Seo

Traditional eye tracking requires specialized hardware, which means collecting gaze data from many observers is expensive, tedious and slow. Therefore, existing saliency prediction datasets are order-of-magnitudes smaller than typical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Pingmei Xu , Krista A Ehinger , Yinda Zhang , Adam Finkelstein , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Jianxiong Xiao

In human-robot interaction (HRI), detecting a human's gaze helps robots interpret user attention and intent. However, most gaze detection approaches rely on specialized eye-tracking hardware, limiting deployment in everyday settings.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Linlin Cheng , Koen Hindriks , Artem V. Belopolsky

Eye movements play a vital role in perceiving the world. Eye gaze can give a direct indication of the users point of attention, which can be useful in improving human-computer interaction. Gaze estimation in a non-intrusive manner can make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Anjith George

Predicting the target of visual search from eye fixation (gaze) data is a challenging problem with many applications in human-computer interaction. In contrast to previous work that has focused on individual instances as a search target, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Hosnieh Sattar , Andreas Bulling , Mario Fritz

Appearance-based gaze estimation, aiming to predict accurate 3D gaze direction from a single facial image, has made promising progress in recent years. However, most methods suffer significant performance degradation in cross-domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qida Tan , Hongyu Yang , Wenchao Du

Predicting human gaze behavior within computer vision is integral for developing interactive systems that can anticipate user attention, address fundamental questions in cognitive science, and hold implications for fields like…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Akash Awasthi , Ngan Le , Zhigang Deng , Rishi Agrawal , Carol C. Wu , Hien Van Nguyen

Gaze object prediction (GOP) aims to predict the category and location of the object that a human is looking at. Previous methods utilized box-level supervision to identify the object that a person is looking at, but struggled with semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yang Jin , Lei Zhang , Shi Yan , Bin Fan , Binglu Wang

Virtual reality (VR) can enrich neuropsychological testing, yet the ergonomic trade-offs of its input modes remain under-examined. Seventy-seven healthy volunteers-young (19-29 y) and middle-aged (35-56 y)-completed a VR Trail-Making Test…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Panagiotis Kourtesis , Evgenia Giatzoglou , Panagiotis Vorias , Katerina Alkisti Gounari , Eleni Orfanidou , Chrysanthi Nega

Gaze and face tracking algorithms have traditionally battled a compromise between computational complexity and accuracy; the most accurate neural net algorithms cannot be implemented in real time, but less complex real-time algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 George He , Sami Oueida , Tucker Ward

Mobile eye tracking plays a vital role in capturing human visual attention across both real-world and extended reality (XR) environments, making it an essential tool for applications ranging from behavioural research to human-computer…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chuhan Jiao , Zhiming Hu , Andreas Bulling

We present HOIGaze - a novel learning-based approach for gaze estimation during hand-object interactions (HOI) in extended reality (XR). HOIGaze addresses the challenging HOI setting by building on one key insight: The eye, hand, and head…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhiming Hu , Daniel Haeufle , Syn Schmitt , Andreas Bulling

Video conferences play a vital role in our daily lives. However, many nonverbal cues are missing, including gaze and spatial information. We introduce LookAtChat, a web-based video conferencing system, which empowers remote users to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Zhenyi He , Ruofei Du , Ken Perlin

Non-invasive gaze estimation methods usually regress gaze directions directly from a single face or eye image. However, due to important variabilities in eye shapes and inner eye structures amongst individuals, universal models obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Gang Liu , Yu Yu , Kenneth A. Funes Mora , Jean-Marc Odobez

Existing eye trackers use cameras based on thick compound optical elements, necessitating the cameras to be placed at focusing distance from the eyes. This results in the overall bulk of wearable eye trackers, especially for augmented and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Purvam Jain , Althaf M. Nazar , Salman S. Khan , Kaushik Mitra , Praneeth Chakravarthula

Immersive virtual reality (VR) applications demand accurate, temporally coherent full-body pose tracking. Recent head-mounted camera-based approaches show promise in egocentric pose estimation, but encounter challenges when applied to VR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Haojie Cheng , Shaun Jing Heng Ong , Shaoyu Cai , Aiden Tat Yang Koh , Fuxi Ouyang , Eng Tat Khoo

Emotion recognition,as a step toward mind reading,seeks to infer internal states from external cues.Most existing methods rely on explicit signals-such as facial expressions,speech,or gestures-that reflect only bodily responses and overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Mengke Song , Yuge Xie , Qi Cui , Luming Li , Xinyu Liu , Guotao Wang , Chenglizhao Chen , Shanchen Pang

Human eye gaze detection plays an important role in various fields, including human-computer interaction, virtual reality and cognitive science. Although different relatively accurate systems of eye tracking and gaze detection exist, they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Ehsan Arbabi , Mohammad Shabani , Ali Yarigholi

Conducting collaborative tasks, e.g., multi-user game, in virtual reality (VR) could enable us to explore more immersive and effective experience. However, for current VR systems, users cannot communicate properly with each other via their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Song Zhao , Shiwei Cheng , Chenshuang Zhu

Intention prediction has become a relevant field of research in Human-Machine and Human-Robot Interaction. Indeed, any artificial system (co)-operating with and along humans, designed to assist and coordinate its actions with a human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Anna Belardinelli