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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Final call for ActivEye Workshop, Deadline: March 12th<br>
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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 Prize: </span><span>An RTX 3080 GPU, sponsored by NVIDIA Research</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Keynote talks announced</span><span>: Dr. Shalini De Mello (NVIDIA Research) Dr. Kai Dierkes (Pupil Labs)</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Workshop Special Issue in Behavioral Research Methods
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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 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><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">For questions, e-mail:</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</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">Keynote 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">We are seeking
</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700">maximum 4-page single-column</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400"> submissions aligned with the ACM-ETRA format. All accepted submissions
will be indexed by ACM proceedings. Top submissions will be considered for a Special Issue in the Journal of Behavioral Research Methods guest-edited by Dr. Marcus Nystrom of Lund University. After the workshop, the authors of selected submissions will have
until August 1st, 2021 to submit their extended work for an online publication in December 2021 (tentative dates). Please find more details on the workshop website. (</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/activeye/paper-submission?authuser=0"><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/paper-submission?authuser=0</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">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 Volunteers:</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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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">Christian Sinnot(</span><a href="mailto:csinnott@nevada.unr.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">csinnott@nevada.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">Bharath Shankar(</span><a href="mailto:bshankar@nevada.unr.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">bshankar@nevada.unr.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:400">)</span></p>
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