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Gaze-LLE: Gaze Target Estimation via Large-Scale Learned Encoders (arxiv.org)
2 points by asah on Dec 15, 2024 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It predicts where a person is looking by pulling one set of features from a frozen general vision encoder and marking the person, instead of stitching together separate encoders for scene, head, depth and pose. It set the best results on several gaze benchmarks.

Abstract

We address the problem of gaze target estimation, which aims to predict where a person is looking in a scene. Predicting a person's gaze target requires reasoning both about the person's appearance and the contents of the scene. Prior works have developed increasingly complex, hand-crafted pipelines for gaze target estimation that carefully fuse features from separate scene encoders, head encoders, and auxiliary models for signals like depth and pose. Motivated by the success of general-purpose feature extractors on a variety of visual tasks, we propose Gaze-LLE, a novel transformer framework that streamlines gaze target estimation by leveraging features from a frozen DINOv2 encoder. We extract a single feature representation for the scene, and apply a person-specific positional prompt to decode gaze with a lightweight module. We demonstrate state-of-the-art performance across several gaze benchmarks and provide extensive analysis to validate our design choices. Our code is available at: http://github.com/fkryan/gazelle .

Fiona Ryan, Ajay Bati, Sangmin Lee, Daniel Bolya, Judy Hoffman, James M. Rehg
arXiv:2412.09586 · cs.CV · submitted Dec 12, 2024 · updated Jun 4, 2025
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