@mastersthesis {xPereira, title = {An investigation of eye gaze tracking utilities in image object recognition}, year = {2014}, abstract = {

Computer vision has been one of the most revolutionary technologies of the last few decades. This project investigates how to improve an image recognition system (image classifier) using a not very exploded technology; eye gaze tracking. The aim of this project is to explore the benefits that this technology can bring to an image classifier. The experiment that is set in this project is to build a dataset with an eye tracking device and (using different sized cropped parts of the image based on the eye tracking data) see how the performance of an image classifier is affected with these images. The results are interesting. Since smaller images have to be processed by using this method, the system is more efficient. Regarding the performance, it is very similar to the one obtained without using any eye tracking data, so it is arguable to state that it presents an improvement, and opens new directions of investigation for future works.

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}, author = {Imedio-Pereira, Sergi}, editor = {Mohedano, Eva and Xavier Gir{\'o}-i-Nieto and Albatal, Rami and O{\textquoteright}Connor, N.} }