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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Latest updates:</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Young Scientist Best Paper Award: </span><span>An RTX 3080 GPU, sponsored by NVIDIA Research (Thanks to Dr. Joohwan Kim)</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Keynote talks announced</span><span>:</span></p>
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<span>Dr. Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA Research)</span></p>
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<span>Dr. Kai Dierkes (Pupil Labs)</span></p>
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<span>Stay tuned for our announcement of a </span><span style="font-weight:700">special issue</span><span> associated with the Workshop. Details to be announced.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">ActivEye Workshop 2021</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Challenges in large scale eye tracking for active participants </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Dear all,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">We invite you to submit your work to the
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">ActivEye Workshop 2021</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">. As part of this year’s ACM ETRA 2021 conference (Eye Tracking Research
and Application), we’re inviting </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">two-page submissions</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> in one of the areas below in order
to bring together the vision, engineering, human factors, and computer science communities to share our solutions that address the following challenges in eye tracking:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> Robust Gaze tracking in a challenging environment:</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Topics include algorithms for 2D and 3D gaze tracking of active participants outside of the lab, slippage detection and correction, run-time and post-hoc re-calibration, and validation
techniques. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> Head pose tracking:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">We invite studies that take into account the synergy between the eye and head movements, especially encourage contributions to onboard head pose tracking systems, post-hoc head tracking
techniques, and head + eye movement classification algorithms in order to better understand the underlying oculomotor mechanisms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> World Camera Characteristics:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Typically, portable eye-tracking devices have a limited field of view, poor optics, and low-quality world video. We encourage studies that address issues of image quality, dynamic
range, wide FOV gaze tracking, color consistency, frame rate, spatial resolution, quality vs. size compromise, and modern depth-sensing techniques.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> Extending use cases to special populations:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">The day-to-day challenges of mobile eye-tracking are often exacerbated under certain experimental conditions and with specific participant populations. The latter can include children
and older adults, who might have additional ergonomic and physiological constraints; or patient populations (</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400;font-style:italic">e.g.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">,
those with strabismus or visual field damage).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> Gaze Tracking Data Annotation:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Considering the growing demands for state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, a key feature of a usable dataset is that it is accurately and reliably annotated. We welcome submissions
that include efforts for annotating different aspects of such datasets efficiently, including but not limited to different types of eye + head movements, external events, different eye regions for real or synthetic images and scene objects.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> Best Practices and DIY:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">We encourage submissions on best practices that researchers take into account when running large-scale data collection, such as comparisons of different calibration routines, efforts
to enhance participant comfort, experimental procedures, UI design for system error tolerance, error handling, and notifications.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700"> Devices Ergonomy:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Participant discomfort with most head-mounted trackers is a key obstacle in the collection of large-scale and outdoor data, particularly for extended time periods. We welcome submissions
where researchers in academia and industry share their experience and potential solutions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Workshop website:</span></p>
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/activeye"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://sites.google.com/view/activeye</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">ETRA 2021 website:</span></p>
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<a href="https://etra.acm.org/2021/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://etra.acm.org/2021/</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Workshop email address:</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:activeye_etra2021@googlegroups.com"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">activeye_etra2021@googlegroups.com</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Sponsor:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">NVIDIA Research generously sponsors an RTX 3080 GPU for the best paper award!</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Speakers:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Dr. Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA Research)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Dr. Kai Dierkes (Pupil Labs) </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Submission format:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">All accepted two-page submissions will be indexed by ACM proceedings. We are also in the process of confirming a special issue journal track for the top submissions. Details will be
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Workshop Dates:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Submission Deadline: March 12, 2021 (Check the workshop website for more information)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Workshop: May 25-27th, 2021 (a one-day virtual workshop, exact date to be confirmed)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Workshop Organizers:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Kamran Binaee (University of Nevada, Reno) (</span><a href="mailto:kbinaee@unr.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">kbinaee@unr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Natela Shanidze (The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute) (</span><a href="mailto:natela@ski.org"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">natela@ski.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Agostino Gibaldi (University of California, Berkeley) (</span><a href="mailto:agostino.gibaldi@berkeley.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">agostino.gibaldi@berkeley.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Caroline Robertson (Dartmouth College) (</span><a href="mailto:caroline.e.robertson@dartmouth.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">caroline.e.robertson@dartmouth.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Advisory Board:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Paul Macneilage (University of Nevada, Reno) (</span><a href="mailto:pmacneilage@unr.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">pmacneilage@unr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Mark Lescroart (University of Nevada, Reno) (</span><a href="mailto:mlescroart@unr.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">mlescroart@unr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Graduate Students:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Rakshit Kothari (</span><a href="mailto:rsk3900@rit.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">rsk3900@rit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Aayush Chaudhary(</span><a href="mailto:akc5959@rit.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">akc5959@rit.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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