arXiv:2409.04766cs.CVcs.LG2024-09被引 1

跨数据集联合训练提升眼动预测泛化能力,同时量化不确定性。

Cross-Dataset Gaze Estimation by Evidential Inter-intra Fusion

  • 分治融合:每数据集独立建模,再用混合分布整合跨数据特征。
  • 在源域与未见域均显著提升性能,跨域准确率最高提升12.3%。
  • 适合需要高可靠性的实际部署场景,如智能驾驶、人机交互。

在复杂多样的环境中实现精准可靠的注视估计仍具挑战。尽管真实应用中可轻松获取多种眼动数据集,但以往研究忽视了联合训练的潜力。我们发现联合训练多个数据集能显著提升模型泛化能力,然而因数据分布差异,直接拼接反而降低原域性能。为此,本文提出新颖的证据型跨-内融合(EIF)框架,构建跨数据集模型,在所有源域和未见域均表现优异。具体地,为各数据集建立独立分支,将数据空间划分为重叠子空间进行局部回归,并增设跨数据集分支融合通用特征;设计基于正态逆伽马(NIG)分布的证据回归器,额外提供预测不确定性。在此基础上,通过混合正态逆伽马(MoNIG)分布实现分支间与分支内的证据融合。实验表明,本方法在源域与未见域均取得显著提升,性能超越现有基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Achieving accurate and reliable gaze predictions in complex and diverse environments remains challenging. Fortunately, it is straightforward to access diverse gaze datasets in real-world applications. We discover that training these datasets jointly can significantly improve the generalization of gaze estimation, which is overlooked in previous works. However, due to the inherent distribution shift across different datasets, simply mixing multiple dataset decreases the performance in the original domain despite gaining better generalization abilities. To address the problem of ``cross-dataset gaze estimation'', we propose a novel Evidential Inter-intra Fusion EIF framework, for training a cross-dataset model that performs well across all source and unseen domains. Specifically, we build independent single-dataset branches for various datasets where the data space is partitioned into overlapping subspaces within each dataset for local regression, and further create a cross-dataset branch to integrate the generalizable features from single-dataset branches. Furthermore, evidential regressors based on the Normal and Inverse-Gamma (NIG) distribution are designed to additionally provide uncertainty estimation apart from predicting gaze. Building upon this foundation, our proposed framework achieves both intra-evidential fusion among multiple local regressors within each dataset and inter-evidential fusion among multiple branches by Mixture \textbfof Normal Inverse-Gamma (MoNIG distribution. Experiments demonstrate that our method consistently achieves notable improvements in both source domains and unseen domains.

眼动估计跨域泛化不确定性证据推理

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