Enhancing accuracy of uncertainty estimation in appearance-based gaze tracking with probabilistic evaluation and calibration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14894v3
• Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 21:23:20 GMT
• Title: Enhancing accuracy of uncertainty estimation in appearance-based gaze tracking with probabilistic evaluation and calibration
• Authors: Qiaojie Zheng, Jiucai Zhang, Xiaoli Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Uncertainty in appearance-based gaze tracking is critical for ensuring reliable downstream applications.<n>Current uncertainty-aware approaches adopt probabilistic models to acquire uncertainties by following distributions in the training dataset.<n>We propose a correction strategy based on probability calibration to mitigate biases in the estimated uncertainties of the trained models.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: 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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