arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 1

GazeFlow: From Human Gaze Behavior to Generative Egocentric Gaze Prediction

GazeFlow is a new framework for egocentric gaze prediction that models gaze as a joint distribution of temporal positions conditioned on both top‑down task cues and bottom‑up visual saliency. It employs conditional flow matching to iteratively transform Gaussian noise into realistic gaze trajectories, using a velocity field informed by video‑encoded visual features and global task queries. On standard benchmarks, GazeFlow outperforms existing methods on per‑frame metrics and produces trajectories that better reflect human gaze dynamics.

By Sheng Zhao, Weikai Lin, Yuhao Zhu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

Context-Aware Causal Gaze Forecasting for Human-Vehicle Interaction During In-Cabin Tracking Dropouts

The paper introduces the Causal Context-Gated Forecaster (CCGF) for predicting a driver's gaze during dashboard-mounted tracker dropouts. CCGF uses a 60‑frame history of gaze and head pose combined with DINOv3 scene features, and a learned reliability gate adjusts the influence of these inputs as the dropout progresses. Experiments on 2,047 naturalistic driving events show that live scene updates reduce median error by 33% compared to history‑only forecasting, while frozen scene input yields higher error, demonstrating the value of real‑time scene information.

By Shabnam Shabani, Ghazal Farhani
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

Moving Forward with Video Saliency: A New Dataset and Benchmark where Motion Matters

The paper introduces SalTempto, a new video saliency benchmark featuring 224 highly dynamic clips from HACS‑Segments, each with event context and gaze data from up to 16 subjects. It shows that static baselines perform poorly on SalTempto compared to LEDOV, while fine‑tuned temporal models achieve significant gains, yet still leave a large portion of explainable gaze information unaccounted for. The dataset highlights the need for better temporal modeling in video saliency research.

By Susmit Agrawal, Rebecca Wanner, Juliane Verwiebe, Matthias Tangemann, Matthias Bethge, Matthias K\"ummerer