Gaze Estimation in Children´s Peer-Play Scenarios

Gaze is a powerful cue for children´s social behavior analysis. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to estimate children´s gaze orientation in the experimental data of developmental psychology based on head pose estimation. In consideration of the possible errors of head pose estimation results, temporal information and potential targets are both introduced to improve the results of gaze estimation. At last, this method is evaluated by a dataset of children´s peer-play scenarios and the results show that this method has a good performance. According to the experimental valuation and analysis, in a certain peer-play scenario, potential targets are powerful spatial cues for children´s gaze estimation and temporal information also provides some cues to improve the estimation results.