Diffusion-Refined VQA Annotations for Semi-Supervised Gaze Following

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Hauptverfasser: Miao, Qiaomu, Graikos, Alexandros, Zhang, Jingwei, Mondal, Sounak, Hoai, Minh, Samaras, Dimitris
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author Miao, Qiaomu
Graikos, Alexandros
Zhang, Jingwei
Mondal, Sounak
Hoai, Minh
Samaras, Dimitris
author_facet Miao, Qiaomu
Graikos, Alexandros
Zhang, Jingwei
Mondal, Sounak
Hoai, Minh
Samaras, Dimitris
contents Training gaze following models requires a large number of images with gaze target coordinates annotated by human annotators, which is a laborious and inherently ambiguous process. We propose the first semi-supervised method for gaze following by introducing two novel priors to the task. We obtain the first prior using a large pretrained Visual Question Answering (VQA) model, where we compute Grad-CAM heatmaps by `prompting' the VQA model with a gaze following question. These heatmaps can be noisy and not suited for use in training. The need to refine these noisy annotations leads us to incorporate a second prior. We utilize a diffusion model trained on limited human annotations and modify the reverse sampling process to refine the Grad-CAM heatmaps. By tuning the diffusion process we achieve a trade-off between the human annotation prior and the VQA heatmap prior, which retains the useful VQA prior information while exhibiting similar properties to the training data distribution. Our method outperforms simple pseudo-annotation generation baselines on the GazeFollow image dataset. More importantly, our pseudo-annotation strategy, applied to a widely used supervised gaze following model (VAT), reduces the annotation need by 50%. Our method also performs the best on the VideoAttentionTarget dataset.
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spellingShingle Diffusion-Refined VQA Annotations for Semi-Supervised Gaze Following
Miao, Qiaomu
Graikos, Alexandros
Zhang, Jingwei
Mondal, Sounak
Hoai, Minh
Samaras, Dimitris
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Training gaze following models requires a large number of images with gaze target coordinates annotated by human annotators, which is a laborious and inherently ambiguous process. We propose the first semi-supervised method for gaze following by introducing two novel priors to the task. We obtain the first prior using a large pretrained Visual Question Answering (VQA) model, where we compute Grad-CAM heatmaps by `prompting' the VQA model with a gaze following question. These heatmaps can be noisy and not suited for use in training. The need to refine these noisy annotations leads us to incorporate a second prior. We utilize a diffusion model trained on limited human annotations and modify the reverse sampling process to refine the Grad-CAM heatmaps. By tuning the diffusion process we achieve a trade-off between the human annotation prior and the VQA heatmap prior, which retains the useful VQA prior information while exhibiting similar properties to the training data distribution. Our method outperforms simple pseudo-annotation generation baselines on the GazeFollow image dataset. More importantly, our pseudo-annotation strategy, applied to a widely used supervised gaze following model (VAT), reduces the annotation need by 50%. Our method also performs the best on the VideoAttentionTarget dataset.
title Diffusion-Refined VQA Annotations for Semi-Supervised Gaze Following
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02774