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Hauptverfasser: Zheng, Qiaojie, Zhang, Jiucai, Zhang, Xiaoli
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Zheng, Qiaojie
Zhang, Jiucai
Zhang, Xiaoli
author_facet Zheng, Qiaojie
Zhang, Jiucai
Zhang, Xiaoli
contents Accurately knowing uncertainties in appearance-based gaze tracking is critical for ensuring reliable downstream applications. Due to the lack of individual uncertainty labels, current uncertainty-aware approaches adopt probabilistic models to acquire uncertainties by following distributions in the training dataset. Without regulations, this approach lets the uncertainty model build biases and overfits the training data, leading to poor performance when deployed. We first presented a strict proper evaluation metric from the probabilistic perspective based on comparing the coverage probability between prediction and observation to provide quantitative evaluation for better assessment on the inferred uncertainties. We then proposed a correction strategy based on probability calibration to mitigate biases in the estimated uncertainties of the trained models. Finally, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the correction strategy with experiments performed on two popular gaze estimation datasets with distinctive image characteristics caused by data collection settings.
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spellingShingle Enhancing accuracy of uncertainty estimation in appearance-based gaze tracking with probabilistic evaluation and calibration
Zheng, Qiaojie
Zhang, Jiucai
Zhang, Xiaoli
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Accurately knowing uncertainties in appearance-based gaze tracking is critical for ensuring reliable downstream applications. Due to the lack of individual uncertainty labels, current uncertainty-aware approaches adopt probabilistic models to acquire uncertainties by following distributions in the training dataset. Without regulations, this approach lets the uncertainty model build biases and overfits the training data, leading to poor performance when deployed. We first presented a strict proper evaluation metric from the probabilistic perspective based on comparing the coverage probability between prediction and observation to provide quantitative evaluation for better assessment on the inferred uncertainties. We then proposed a correction strategy based on probability calibration to mitigate biases in the estimated uncertainties of the trained models. Finally, we demonstrated the effectiveness of the correction strategy with experiments performed on two popular gaze estimation datasets with distinctive image characteristics caused by data collection settings.
title Enhancing accuracy of uncertainty estimation in appearance-based gaze tracking with probabilistic evaluation and calibration
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14894