Assessing a Bayesian account of human gaze perception

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Assessing a Bayesian account of human gaze perception

Published 2015 · Peter C. Pantelis, Daniel P. Kennedy

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Abstract

Although gaze can be directed at any location, different locations in the visual environment vary in terms of how likely they are to draw another person’s attention. One could therefore weigh incoming perceptual signals (e.g., eye cues) against this prior knowledge (the relative visual saliency of locations in the scene) in order to infer the true target of another person’s gaze. This Bayesian approach to modeling gaze perception has informed computer vision techniques, but we assess whether it is a good model for human performance. We present subjects with a “gazer” fixating his eyes on various locations on a 2-dimensional surface, and project an arbitrary photographic image onto that surface. Subjects judge where the gazer is looking in the image. A full Bayesian model, which takes image saliency information into account, fits subjects’ gaze judgments better than a reduced model that only considers the perceived direction of the gazer’s eyes.

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Key takeawayA full Bayesian model, considering image saliency, better fits human gaze judgments than a reduced model that only considers the perceived direction of the gazer's eyes.

PopulationOlder adults (50-71 years)

Sample size24

MethodsObservational

OutcomesBody Mass Index projections

ResultsSocial networks mitigate obesity in older groups.

Assessing a Bayesian account of human gaze perception

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