2023/08/18 by Yunhan Wang, Xiangwei Shi, Wang, Yunhan +7 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Medicine · #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology #Retinal Imaging and Analysis #Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.09593
openalex publication_date 2023/08/18 · openalex created_date 2023/08/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
With the rapid development of deep learning technology in the past decade, appearance-based gaze estimation has attracted great attention from both computer vision and human-computer interaction research communities. Fascinating methods were proposed with variant mechanisms including soft attention, hard attention, two-eye asymmetry, feature disentanglement, rotation consistency, and contrastive learning. Most of these methods take the single-face or multi-region as input, yet the basic architecture of gaze estimation has not been fully explored. In this paper, we reveal the fact that tuning a few simple parameters of a ResNet architecture can outperform most of the existing state-of-the-art methods for the gaze estimation task on three popular datasets. With our extensive experiments, we conclude that the stride number, input image resolution, and multi-region architecture are critical for the gaze estimation performance while their effectiveness dependent on the quality of the input face image. We obtain the state-of-the-art performances on three datasets with 3.64 on ETH-XGaze, 4.50 on MPIIFaceGaze, and 9.13 on Gaze360 degrees gaze estimation error by taking ResNet-50 as the backbone.