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Main Authors: Liu, Xiaochuan, Cheng, Xin, Sun, Yuchong, Wu, Xiaoxue, Song, Ruihua, Sun, Hao, Zhang, Denghao
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20858
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author Liu, Xiaochuan
Cheng, Xin
Sun, Yuchong
Wu, Xiaoxue
Song, Ruihua
Sun, Hao
Zhang, Denghao
author_facet Liu, Xiaochuan
Cheng, Xin
Sun, Yuchong
Wu, Xiaoxue
Song, Ruihua
Sun, Hao
Zhang, Denghao
contents Imitating how humans move their gaze in a visual scene is a vital research problem for both visual understanding and psychology, kindling crucial applications such as building alive virtual characters. Previous studies aim to predict gaze trajectories when humans are free-viewing an image, searching for required targets, or looking for clues to answer questions in an image. While these tasks focus on visual-centric scenarios, humans move their gaze also along with audio signal inputs in more common scenarios. To fill this gap, we introduce a new task that predicts human gaze trajectories in a visual scene with synchronized audio inputs and provide a new dataset containing 20k gaze points from 8 subjects. To effectively integrate audio information and simulate the dynamic process of human gaze motion, we propose a novel learning framework called EyEar (Eye moving while Ear listening) based on physics-informed dynamics, which considers three key factors to predict gazes: eye inherent motion tendency, vision salient attraction, and audio semantic attraction. We also propose a probability density score to overcome the high individual variability of gaze trajectories, thereby improving the stabilization of optimization and the reliability of the evaluation. Experimental results show that EyEar outperforms all the baselines in the context of all evaluation metrics, thanks to the proposed components in the learning model.
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spellingShingle EyEar: Learning Audio Synchronized Human Gaze Trajectory Based on Physics-Informed Dynamics
Liu, Xiaochuan
Cheng, Xin
Sun, Yuchong
Wu, Xiaoxue
Song, Ruihua
Sun, Hao
Zhang, Denghao
Multimedia
Imitating how humans move their gaze in a visual scene is a vital research problem for both visual understanding and psychology, kindling crucial applications such as building alive virtual characters. Previous studies aim to predict gaze trajectories when humans are free-viewing an image, searching for required targets, or looking for clues to answer questions in an image. While these tasks focus on visual-centric scenarios, humans move their gaze also along with audio signal inputs in more common scenarios. To fill this gap, we introduce a new task that predicts human gaze trajectories in a visual scene with synchronized audio inputs and provide a new dataset containing 20k gaze points from 8 subjects. To effectively integrate audio information and simulate the dynamic process of human gaze motion, we propose a novel learning framework called EyEar (Eye moving while Ear listening) based on physics-informed dynamics, which considers three key factors to predict gazes: eye inherent motion tendency, vision salient attraction, and audio semantic attraction. We also propose a probability density score to overcome the high individual variability of gaze trajectories, thereby improving the stabilization of optimization and the reliability of the evaluation. Experimental results show that EyEar outperforms all the baselines in the context of all evaluation metrics, thanks to the proposed components in the learning model.
title EyEar: Learning Audio Synchronized Human Gaze Trajectory Based on Physics-Informed Dynamics
topic Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20858