Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video

Many studies have reported the preference for faces and influence of faces on gaze, most of them in static images and a few in videos. In this paper, we study the influence of faces in complex free-viewing videos, with respect to the effects of number, location and size of the faces. This knowledge...

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Main Authors: Anis Rahman, Denis Pellerin, Dominique Houzet
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Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-04-01
Series:Journal of Eye Movement Research
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Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2378
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description Many studies have reported the preference for faces and influence of faces on gaze, most of them in static images and a few in videos. In this paper, we study the influence of faces in complex free-viewing videos, with respect to the effects of number, location and size of the faces. This knowledge could be used to enrich a face pathway in a visual saliency model. We used eye fixation data from an eye movement experiment, hand-labeled all the faces in the videos watched, and compared the labeled face regions against the eye fixations. We observed that fixations made are in proximity to, or inside the face regions. We found that 50% of the fixations landed directly on face regions that occupy less than 10% of the entire visual scene. Moreover, the fixation duration on videos with face is longer than without face, and longer than fixation duration on static images with faces. Finally, we analyzed the three influencing factors (Eccentricity, Area, Closeness) with linear regression models. For one face, the E +A combined model is slightly better than the E model and better than the A model. For two faces, the three variables (E,A,C) are tightly coupled and the E +A+C model had the highest score..
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spelling doaj-art-3e44730d3e0f432394d2b80730bacc0b2025-08-20T01:55:02ZengMDPI AGJournal of Eye Movement Research1995-86922014-04-017210.16910/jemr.7.2.5Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in videoAnis Rahman0Denis Pellerin1Dominique Houzet2National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, PakistanGIPSA-lab, UMR 5216, Grenoble, FranceGIPSA-lab, UMR 5216, Grenoble, FranceMany studies have reported the preference for faces and influence of faces on gaze, most of them in static images and a few in videos. In this paper, we study the influence of faces in complex free-viewing videos, with respect to the effects of number, location and size of the faces. This knowledge could be used to enrich a face pathway in a visual saliency model. We used eye fixation data from an eye movement experiment, hand-labeled all the faces in the videos watched, and compared the labeled face regions against the eye fixations. We observed that fixations made are in proximity to, or inside the face regions. We found that 50% of the fixations landed directly on face regions that occupy less than 10% of the entire visual scene. Moreover, the fixation duration on videos with face is longer than without face, and longer than fixation duration on static images with faces. Finally, we analyzed the three influencing factors (Eccentricity, Area, Closeness) with linear regression models. For one face, the E +A combined model is slightly better than the E model and better than the A model. For two faces, the three variables (E,A,C) are tightly coupled and the E +A+C model had the highest score..https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2378facesattentioneccentricityeye movementsvideo
spellingShingle Anis Rahman
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Dominique Houzet
Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video
Journal of Eye Movement Research
faces
attention
eccentricity
eye movements
video
title Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video
title_full Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video
title_fullStr Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video
title_full_unstemmed Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video
title_short Influence of number, location and size of faces on gaze in video
title_sort influence of number location and size of faces on gaze in video
topic faces
attention
eccentricity
eye movements
video
url https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2378
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