A Tale of Two Eyes:
Importance of Eye Gaze in Affective Computing


ACII 2024 Tutorial

Date: 15/09/2024 (Morning) - Glasgow
Part 1: , Part 2:

Organizers


Shreya Ghosh

Curtin University

Abhinav Dhall

Flinders University

(Moderator)

Summary


Humans perceive their environment through voluntary or involuntary eye movement to receive, fixate and track visual stimuli, or in response to an auditory, or cognitive stimulus. The eye movements therefore can provide insights into our visual attention and cognition (emotions, beliefs and desires). We rely on these insights extensively in day-to-day communication and social interaction. Even with notable progress in the last 10 years, automatic gaze analysis still remains challenging due to the uniqueness of eye appearance, eye-head interplay, occlusion, image quality, and illumination conditions. There are several open questions, including what are the important cues to interpret gaze direction in an unconstrained environment without prior knowledge and how to encode them in real-time. In this tutorial, we review the progress across a range of gaze analysis tasks and applications to elucidate these fundamental questions, identify effective methods in gaze analysis, and provide possible future directions.

Recent works in gaze estimation, gaze following have shown exciting prospects of gaze following in social interaction by (1) leveraging learning with less label paradigm, (2) building self-supervised context-specific learning objectives and (3) combining different modalities. In this context, we propose a half-day tutorial in which we will provide an in-depth coverage of different angles on performing/building-upon the `social gaze' aspect with less human supervision.

Details & Schedule


Sunday, Sep 15th

Time zone: UK (GMT+1) GMT + 1
Location: (ARC-237B) Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow G11 6Ew, United Kingdom, Glasgow G11 6EW.
More details: ACII tutorial page
NEWS: recording available at youtube: Part 1, Part 2.

  • 9:15 - 9:25 - Setting the stage: Eye Gaze in Affective Computing by Abhinav Dhall

  • 9:25 - 10:30 - Sensing eye behaviour & Gaze Estimation by Shreya Ghosh

  • 10:30 - 10:45 - Break

  • 10:45 - 11:30 - Multimodal Social Gaze Behaviour Understanding by Shreya Ghosh

  • 11:30 - 11:40 - Closing Remarks by Abhinav Dhall

For details, please contact Shreya Ghosh.
Last updated: 14 Sep 2024
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