Gaze from Head: Gaze Estimation without Observing Eye

Ikuhisa Mitsugami

Abstract: We propose a gaze estimation method not from eye observation but from head motion. This proposed method is based on physiological studies about the eye-head coordination, and the gaze direction is estimated from observation of head motion by using the eye-head coordination model trained by preliminarily collected data of gaze direction and head pose sequence. We collected gaze-head datasets of from people who walked around under real and VR environments, constructed the eye-head coordination models from those datasets, and evaluated them quantitatively. In addition, we confirmed that there was no significant difference between the models from the real and VR datasets in their estimation accuracy.