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   Keynote talks announced: Dr. Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA Research) Dr. Kai
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ActivEye Workshop 2021

Challenges in large scale eye tracking for active participants

Dear all,

We invite you to submit your work to the ActivEye Workshop 2021. As part of
this year’s ACM ETRA 2021 conference (Eye Tracking Research and
Application), we’re inviting two-page submissions in one of the areas below
in order to bring together the vision, engineering, human factors, and
computer science communities to share solutions that address the following
challenges in eye tracking:

     Robust Gaze tracking in a challenging environment:

Topics include algorithms for 2D and 3D gaze tracking of active
participants outside of the lab, slippage detection and correction,
run-time and post-hoc re-calibration, and validation techniques.

    Head pose tracking:

We invite studies that take into account the synergy between the eye and
head movements,  especially encourage contributions to onboard head pose
tracking systems, post-hoc head tracking techniques, and head + eye
movement classification algorithms in order to better understand the
underlying oculomotor mechanisms.

    World Camera Characteristics:

Typically, portable eye-tracking devices have a limited field of view, poor
optics, and low-quality world video. We encourage studies that address
issues of image quality, dynamic range, wide FOV gaze tracking, color
consistency, frame rate, spatial resolution, quality vs. size compromise,
and modern depth-sensing techniques.

    Extending use cases to special populations:

The day-to-day challenges of mobile eye-tracking are often exacerbated
under certain experimental conditions and with specific participant
populations. The latter can include children and older adults, who might
have additional ergonomic and physiological constraints; or patient
populations (e.g., those with strabismus or visual field damage).

    Gaze Tracking Data Annotation:

Considering the growing demands for state-of-the-art deep learning
techniques, a key feature of a usable dataset is that it is accurately and
reliably annotated. We welcome submissions that include efforts for
annotating different aspects of such datasets efficiently, including but
not limited to different types of eye + head movements, external events,
different eye regions for real or synthetic images and scene objects.

    Best Practices and DIY:

We encourage submissions on best practices that researchers take into
account when running large-scale data collection, such as comparisons of
different calibration routines, efforts to enhance participant comfort,
experimental procedures, UI design for system error tolerance, error
handling, and notifications.

    Devices Ergonomy:

Participant discomfort with most head-mounted trackers is a key obstacle in
the collection of large-scale and outdoor data,  particularly for extended
time periods. We welcome submissions where researchers in academia and
industry share their experience and potential solutions.

Workshop website:

https://sites.google.com/view/activeye

ETRA 2021 website:

https://etra.acm.org/2021/

For questions, e-mail:

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Sponsor:

NVIDIA Research

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA Research)

Dr. Kai Dierkes (Pupil Labs)

Submission format:

We are seeking maximum 4-page single column submissions aligned with the
ACM-ETRA format. All accepted submissions will be indexed by ACM
proceedings. Top submissions will be considered for a Special Issue in the
Journal of Behavioral Research Methods guest edited by Dr. Marcus Nystrom
of Lund University. After the workshop, the authors of selected submissions
will have until August 1st, 2021 to submit their extended work for an
online publication in December 2021 (tentative dates). Please find more
details on the workshop website. (
https://sites.google.com/view/activeye/paper-submission?authuser=0)

Workshop Dates:

Submission Deadline: March 12, 2021 (Check the workshop website for more
information)

Workshop: May 25-27th, 2021 (a one-day virtual workshop, exact date to be
confirmed)

Workshop Organizers:

Kamran Binaee (University of Nevada, Reno) ([log in to unmask])

Natela Shanidze (The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) (
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Agostino Gibaldi (University of California, Berkeley) (
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Caroline Robertson (Dartmouth College) ([log in to unmask])

Advisory Board:

Paul Macneilage (University of Nevada, Reno) ([log in to unmask])

Mark Lescroart (University of Nevada, Reno) ([log in to unmask])

Graduate Students Volunteers:

Rakshit Kothari ([log in to unmask])

Aayush Chaudhary([log in to unmask])

Christian Sinnot([log in to unmask])

Bharath Shankar([log in to unmask])

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