Automatic Analysis of In-the-Wild Mobile Eye-tracking Experiments using Object, Face and Person Detection

Stijn De Beugher, Geert Brône, Toon Goedemé

2014

Abstract

In this paper we present a novel method for the automatic analysis of mobile eye-tracking data in natural environments. Mobile eye-trackers generate large amounts of data, making manual analysis very time-consuming. Available solutions, such as marker-based analysis minimize the manual labour but require experimental control, making real-life experiments practically unfeasible. We present a novel method for processing this mobile eye-tracking data by applying object, face and person detection algorithms. Furthermore we present a temporal smoothing technique to improve the detection rate and we trained a new detection model for occluded person and face detections. This enables the analysis to be performed on the object level rather than the traditionally used coordinate level. We present speed and accuracy results of our novel detection scheme on challenging, large-scale real-life experiments.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

De Beugher S., Brône G. and Goedemé T. (2014). Automatic Analysis of In-the-Wild Mobile Eye-tracking Experiments using Object, Face and Person Detection . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-003-1, pages 625-633. DOI: 10.5220/0004741606250633

in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp14,
author={Stijn De Beugher and Geert Brône and Toon Goedemé},
title={Automatic Analysis of In-the-Wild Mobile Eye-tracking Experiments using Object, Face and Person Detection},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={625-633},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004741606250633},
isbn={978-989-758-003-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2014)
TI - Automatic Analysis of In-the-Wild Mobile Eye-tracking Experiments using Object, Face and Person Detection
SN - 978-989-758-003-1
AU - De Beugher S.
AU - Brône G.
AU - Goedemé T.
PY - 2014
SP - 625
EP - 633
DO - 10.5220/0004741606250633