GroupGazer: A Tool to Compute the Gaze per Participant in Groups with integrated Calibration to Map the Gaze Online to a Screen or Beamer Projection

TL;DR

GroupGazer is a software tool that calculates and maps gaze directions of individuals in group settings onto screens or projections, enabling group attention analysis with integrated calibration.

Contribution

It introduces a novel tool that computes individual gaze directions in groups and maps them onto displays, with calibration and person affiliation features.

Findings

Accurately computes gaze direction for each person in group images.

Maps gaze vectors onto screens or projections for real-time analysis.

Stores person-specific gaze data with calibration for repeated use.

Abstract

In this paper we present GroupGaze. It is a tool that can be used to calculate the gaze direction and the gaze position of whole groups. GroupGazer calculates the gaze direction of every single person in the image and allows to map these gaze vectors to a projection like a projector. In addition to the person-specific gaze direction, the person affiliation of each gaze vector is stored based on the position in the image. Also, it is possible to save the group attention after a calibration. The software is free to use and requires a simple webcam as well as an NVIDIA GPU and the operating system Windows or Linux. Link: https://es-cloud.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/d/8e2ab8c3fdd444e1a135/?p=%2FGroupGazer&mode=list