In the Eye of Transformer: Global-Local Correlation for Egocentric Gaze Estimation
Bolin Lai (Georgia Institute of Technology),* Miao Liu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Fiona Ryan (Georgia Institute of Technology), James Rehg (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The 33rd British Machine Vision Conference
Best Student Paper Award
Abstract
In this paper, we present the first transformer-based model to address the challenging problem of egocentric gaze estimation. We observe that the connection between the global scene context and local visual information is vital for localizing the gaze fixation from egocentric video frames. To this end, we design the transformer encoder to embed the global context as one additional visual token and further propose a novel Global-Local Correlation (GLC) module to explicitly model the correlation of the global token and each local token. We validate our model on two egocentric video datasets – EGTEA Gaze+ and Ego4D. Our detailed ablation studies demonstrate the benefits of our method. In addition, our approach exceeds previous state-of-the-arts by a large margin. We also provide additional visualizations to support our claim that global-local correlation serves a key representation for predicting gaze fixation from egocentric videos.Video
Citation
@inproceedings{Lai_2022_BMVC,
author = {Bolin Lai and Miao Liu and Fiona Ryan and James Rehg},
title = {In the Eye of Transformer: Global-Local Correlation for Egocentric Gaze Estimation},
booktitle = {33rd British Machine Vision Conference 2022, {BMVC} 2022, London, UK, November 21-24, 2022},
publisher = {{BMVA} Press},
year = {2022},
url = {https://bmvc2022.mpi-inf.mpg.de/0227.pdf}
}
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