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Precisely detecting which object a person is paying attention to is critical for human-robot interaction since it provides important cues for the next action from the human user. We propose an end-to-end approach for gaze target detection:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Zhi-Yi Lin , Jouh Yeong Chew , Jan van Gemert , Xucong Zhang

Joint attention is a core, early-developing form of social interaction. It is based on our ability to discriminate the third party objects that other people are looking at. While it has been shown that people can accurately determine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Tao Gao , Daniel Harari , Joshua Tenenbaum , Shimon Ullman

Gaze following aims to predict where a person is looking in a scene, by predicting the target location, or indicating that the target is located outside the image. Recent works detect the gaze target by training a heatmap regression task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Qiaomu Miao , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

A user's eyes provide means for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research as an important modal. The time to time scientific explorations of the eye has already seen an upsurge of the benefits in HCI applications from gaze estimation to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Atul Sahay , Imon Mukherjee , Kavi Arya

Eye gaze analysis is an important research problem in the field of Computer Vision and Human-Computer Interaction. Even with notable progress in the last 10 years, automatic gaze analysis still remains challenging due to the uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shreya Ghosh , Abhinav Dhall , Munawar Hayat , Jarrod Knibbe , Qiang Ji

When technical requirements are high, and patient outcomes are critical, opportunities for monitoring and improving surgical skills via objective motion analysis feedback may be particularly beneficial. This narrative review synthesises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Merryn D. Constable , Hubert P. H. Shum , Stephen Clark

We present GazeMotion, a novel method for human motion forecasting that combines information on past human poses with human eye gaze. Inspired by evidence from behavioural sciences showing that human eye and body movements are closely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Zhiming Hu , Syn Schmitt , Daniel Haeufle , Andreas Bulling

We address the problem of detecting attention targets in video. Our goal is to identify where each person in each frame of a video is looking, and correctly handle the case where the gaze target is out-of-frame. Our novel architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Eunji Chong , Yongxin Wang , Nataniel Ruiz , James M. Rehg

Eye Tracking (ET) can help to understand visual attention and cognitive processes in interactive environments. In attention tasks, distinguishing between relevant target objects and distractors is crucial for effective performance, yet the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Abdul Rehman , Ilona Heldal , Jerry Chun-Wei Lin

Gaze Target Detection (GTD), i.e., determining where a person is looking within a scene from an external viewpoint, is a challenging task, particularly in 3D space. Existing approaches heavily rely on analyzing the person's appearance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Andrea Toaiari , Vittorio Murino , Marco Cristani , Cigdem Beyan

We investigate the problem of object referring (OR) i.e. to localize a target object in a visual scene coming with a language description. Humans perceive the world more as continued video snippets than as static images, and describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

During multi-party interactions, gaze direction is a key indicator of interest and intent, making it essential for social robots to direct their attention appropriately. Understanding the social context is crucial for robots to engage…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Ramtin Tabatabaei , Alireza Taheri

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

Eye-tracking applications that utilize the human gaze in video understanding tasks have become increasingly important. To effectively automate the process of video analysis based on eye-tracking data, it is important to accurately replicate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Suleyman Ozdel , Yao Rong , Berat Mert Albaba , Yen-Ling Kuo , Xi Wang , Enkelejda Kasneci

Open, or non-laparoscopic surgery, represents the vast majority of all operating room procedures, but few tools exist to objectively evaluate these techniques at scale. Current efforts involve human expert-based visual assessment. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Michael Zhang , Xiaotian Cheng , Daniel Copeland , Arjun Desai , Melody Y. Guan , Gabriel A. Brat , Serena Yeung

Where someone looks is a nonverbal communication cue that children and adults readily use. How well can Vision-Language Models (VLMs) infer gaze targets? To construct evaluation stimuli, we captured 1,360 real-world photos of scenes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zory Zhang , Pinyuan Feng , Bingyang Wang , Tianwei Zhao , Suyang Yu , Qingying Gao , Hokin Deng , Ziqiao Ma , Yijiang Li , Dezhi Luo

Airway management skills are critical in emergency medicine and are typically assessed through subjective evaluation, often failing to gauge competency in real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a machine learning-based approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Jean-Paul Ainam , Rahul , Lora Cavuoto , Matthew Hackett , Jack Norfleet , Suvranu De

This study introduced a novel system, called Gaze2Segment, integrating biological and computer vision techniques to support radiologists' reading experience with an automatic image segmentation task. During diagnostic assessment of lung CT…

This paper explores the estimation of user attention in the setting of a cooperative handheld robot: a robot designed to behave as a handheld tool but that has levels of task knowledge. We use a tool-mounted gaze tracking system, which,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Janis Stolzenwald , Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas

This study investigates the potential of eye-tracking technology and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) to design a collaborative human-computer interaction system that automates medical image segmentation. We present the \textbf{GazeSAM}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Bin Wang , Armstrong Aboah , Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci