Categorizing the Visual Environment and Analyzing the Visual Attention of Dogs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.11988v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:21:18 GMT
• Title: Categorizing the Visual Environment and Analyzing the Visual Attention of Dogs
• Authors: Shreyas Sundara Raman, Madeline H. Pelgrim, Daphna Buchsbaum and Thomas Serre
• Abstract summary: We collect and study a dataset with over 11,698 gazes to categorize the objects available to be gazed at by 11 dogs. A small portion of the collected data is used to fine tune a MaskRCNN for the novel image domain. There are few individual differences between the 11 dogs and we observe greater visual fixations on buses, plants, pavement, and construction equipment.
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• Abstract: Dogs have a unique evolutionary relationship with humans and serve many important roles e.g. search and rescue, blind assistance, emotional support. However, few datasets exist to categorize visual features and objects available to dogs, as well as how dogs direct their visual attention within their environment. We collect and study a dataset with over 11,698 gazes to categorize the objects available to be gazed at by 11 dogs in everyday outdoor environments i.e. a walk around a college campus and urban area. We explore the availability of these object categories and the visual attention of dogs over these categories using a head mounted eye tracking apparatus. A small portion (approx. 600 images or < 20% of total dataset) of the collected data is used to fine tune a MaskRCNN for the novel image domain to segment objects present in the scene, enabling further statistical analysis on the visual gaze tendencies of dogs. The MaskRCNN, with eye tracking apparatus, serves as an end to end model for automatically classifying the visual fixations of dogs. The fine tuned MaskRCNN performs far better than chance. There are few individual differences between the 11 dogs and we observe greater visual fixations on buses, plants, pavement, and construction equipment. This work takes a step towards understanding visual behavior of dogs and their interaction with the physical world.

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