Learning a 3D gaze estimator with adaptive weighted strategy

As a method of predicting the target’s attention distribution, gaze estimation plays an important role in human-computer interaction. In this paper, we learn a 3D gaze estimator with adaptive weighted strategy to get the mapping from the complete images to the gaze vector. We select the both eyes, the complete face and their fusion features as the input of the regression model of gaze estimator. Considering that the different areas of the face have different contributions on the results of gaze estimation under free head movement, we design a new learning strategy for the regression net. To improve the efficiency of the regression model to a great extent, we propose a weighted network that can adjust the learning strategy of the regression net adaptively. Experimental results conducted on the MPIIGaze and EyeDiap datasets demonstrate that our method can achieve superior performance compared with other state-of-the-art 3D gaze estimation methods.