arXiv Computer Vision

SeetaPsych v1.0: An Open-source Computer Vision Toolkit for Behavior-based Psychological Measurement

SeetaPsych v1.0 is an open‑source computer vision toolkit that unifies and extends modules for behavior‑based psychological measurement, focusing on facial image and video analysis. It includes four core modules—emotion analysis, camera‑based heart rate estimation, screen point‑of‑gaze estimation, and scene gaze following—alongside preprocessing tools such as face, landmark, and head detection. The toolkit offers a modular Pipeline/Runner architecture, standardized Python APIs, and an interactive WebUI to enable reproducible, large‑scale research across psychology, behavioral science, and human‑computer interaction.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

Occlusion-Robust Multimodal Emotion Recognition in VR via Fusion of Facial Images and EMG

The paper presents a method for emotion recognition in virtual reality where head‑mounted displays occlude the upper face. By fusing lower‑face video with electromyography (EMG) signals from the occluded upper face, the authors achieve a 51% macro‑F1 score across seven emotional categories, outperforming image‑only and EMG‑only baselines. A new synchronized multimodal dataset from 20 participants is introduced and will be shared under an ethical‑use agreement.

By Birgit Nierula, Karam Tomotaki-Dawoud, Mert Akguel, Mustafa Tevfik Lafci, David Przewozny, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert, Sebastian Bosse
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

HUG-VIS: A Multimodal Benchmark for Human-centered Understanding and Generation in Visual Intelligence

HUG‑VIS is a unified multimodal benchmark for human‑centered visual intelligence, comprising 8,400 half‑body videos of 30 professional actors performing 280 emotion‑action prompts in Mandarin. The dataset provides synchronized video, audio, text, and alpha mattes for four tasks—human emotion recognition, video generation, voice cloning, and video matting—allowing evaluation of both open‑ and closed‑source models under a zero‑shot protocol. Results reveal that linguistic cues dominate emotion recognition, visual affect is weakest, and that automatic metrics and human judgments diverge in generation and cloning tasks, while motion‑related boundary fidelity remains a key challenge for matting.

By Fei Ma, Zebang Cheng, Minghui Li, Hongbo Xu, Yuyong Tan, Yihua Shao, Hanling Wang, Zhou Liu, Yuqing Gao, Dong Wang, Long Ma, Laizhong Cui, Nicu Sebe, Qi Tian
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

EgoHRV: Continuous Heart Rate Variability Estimation from Egocentric Systems for Autonomic Response and Skill Assessment

EgoHRV is a method that estimates heart rate variability (HRV) and heart rate (HR) from the gaze cameras in egocentric headsets. It uses a 3D backbone and a low–high decomposition module to extract the blood volume pulse signal from gaze video, and aligns frequency‑domain representations of contact‑based and camera‑derived signals through cross‑domain pretraining. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy for HR and HRV estimation and, when integrated into EgoExo4D’s proficiency estimator, improves accuracy by 17.8%.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Gaze Target Estimation Anywhere with Concepts

Estimating human gaze targets from images in-the-wild is an important and formidable task. Existing approaches primarily employ brittle, multi-stage pipelines that require explicit inputs, like head bounding boxes and human pose, in order to identify the subject of gaze analysis.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 21

OpenSAL360: Open-Source Crowdsourcing Platform for Omnidirectional Video Saliency Collection

OpenSAL360 is an open‑source platform that enables scalable, low‑cost collection of 360° video saliency data using only a standard screen, mouse, and internet connection. It bypasses the need for VR headsets, allowing parallel data collection from crowdsourced assessors. The authors validated the protocol against seven VR eye‑tracking datasets, performed ablation studies, and released a new dataset of 500 omnidirectional videos annotated by over 2,000 assessors, the largest in the field to date.

By Alexey Bryncev, Andrey Moskalenko, Kira Shilovskaya, Ivan Kosmynin, Dmitriy Vatolin
arXiv AI
Jul 17

InCarEmo: A Multimodal Dataset for In-Cabin Emotion Recognition and Driver State Monitoring

arXiv:2607. 14683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding driver emotion and state is critical for the next generation of intelligent in-cabin systems that ensure safety and enhance human-vehicle interaction.

By Hao Yang, Yanyan Zhao, Kewei Zhao, Hongbo Zhang, Tian Zheng, Yusheng Liu, Xing Fu, Bichen Wang, Yu Zhang, Hao He, Zhen Wu, Xuda Zhi, Yongbo Huang, Bing Qin