I can see what you think: The mental image revealed by gaze tracking
- 👤 Speaker: Xi Wang, Technsiche Universität Berlin 🔗 Website
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 10 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00
- 📍 Venue: SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory
Abstract
Humans involuntarily move their eyes when retrieving an image from memory. This motion is often similar to actually observing the image. We suggest to exploit this behavior as a new modality in human computer interaction, using the motion of the eyes as a descriptor of the image. Interaction requires the user’s eyes to be tracked but no voluntary physical activity. We perform a controlled experiment and develop matching techniques using machine learning to investigate if images can be discriminated based on the gaze patterns recorded while users merely think about image. Our results indicate that image retrieval is possible with an accuracy significantly above chance. We also show that this result generalizes to images not used during training of the classifier and extends to uncontrolled settings in a realistic scenario.
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Monday 10 June 2019, 11:00-12:00