Contrastive Representation Learning for Gaze Estimation

Swati Jindal, Roberto Manduchi

Keywords: gaze estimation, representation learning, self-supervised learning

TL;DR: Proposed a self-supervised framework for learning gaze representations and improving performance of gaze estimation task using few labeled samples.

Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become prevalent for learning representations in computer vision. Notably, SSL exploits contrastive learning to encourage visual representations to be invariant under various image transformations. The task of gaze estimation, on the other hand, demands not just invariance to various appearances but also equivariance to the geometric transformations. In this work, we propose a simple contrastive representation learning framework for gaze estimation, named Gaze Contrastive Learning (GazeCLR). GazeCLR exploits multi-view data to promote equivariance and relies on selected data augmentation techniques that do not alter gaze directions for invariance learning. Our experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of GazeCLR for several settings of the gaze estimation task. Particularly, our results show that GazeCLR improves the performance of cross-domain gaze estimation and yields as high as 17.2% relative improvement. Moreover, the GazeCLR framework is competitive with state-of-the-art representation learning methods for few-shot evaluation. The code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/jswati31/gazeclr.

Submission Type: Full Paper

Travel Award - Academic Status: Ph.D. Student

Travel Award - Institution And Country: University of California Santa Cruz, USA

Travel Award - Low To Lower-middle Income Countries: No, my institution does not qualify.

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