Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: nitec
Version: 0.0.1
Summary: The official PyTorch implementation of NITEC for eye contact detection.
Author: Thorsten Hempel, Magnus Jung, Ahmed Abderlrahman
Project-URL: homepath, https://github.com/thohemp/nitec
Project-URL: repository, https://github.com/thohemp/nitec
Keywords: eye contact,estimation,human-robot interact,hri,deep-learning,pytorch,engagement,wacv
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Requires-Python: >3.8
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
Requires-Dist: wheel
Requires-Dist: numpy>=1.19.5
Requires-Dist: opencv-python>=4.8.0.74
Requires-Dist: pandas>=2.0.3
Requires-Dist: Pillow>=8.4.0
Requires-Dist: torch>=2.0.1
Requires-Dist: torchvision>=0.15.2

# <div align="center"> **NITEC: Versatile Hand-Annotated Eye Contact Dataset for Ego-Vision Interaction (Accepted at WACV24)** </div>

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  <img src="https://github.com/thohemp/archive/blob/main/nitec.gif" alt="animated" />
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## **Citing**

If you find our work useful, please cite the paper:

```BibTeX
@misc{hempel2023nitec,
      title={NITEC: Versatile Hand-Annotated Eye Contact Dataset for Ego-Vision Interaction}, 
      author={Thorsten Hempel and Magnus Jung and Ahmed A. Abdelrahman and Ayoub Al-Hamadi},
      year={2023},
      eprint={2311.04505},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}
```
## <div align="center"> **Paper**</div>
> [Thorsten Hempel, Magnus Jung, Ahmed A. Abdelrahman and Ayoub Al-Hamadi, "NITEC: Versatile Hand-Annotated Eye Contact Dataset for Ego-Vision Interaction", *accepted at WACV 2024*.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04505)

## <div align="center"> **Abstract**</div>
>Eye contact is a crucial non-verbal interaction modality and plays an important role in our everyday social life. While humans are very sensitive to eye contact, the capabilities of machines to capture a person's gaze are still mediocre. We tackle this challenge and present NITEC, a hand-annotated eye contact dataset for ego-vision interaction. NITEC exceeds existing datasets for ego-vision eye contact in size and variety of demographics, social contexts, and lighting conditions, making it a valuable resource for advancing ego-vision-based eye contact research. Our extensive evaluations on NITEC demonstrate strong cross-dataset performance, emphasizing its effectiveness and adaptability in various scenarios, that allows seamless utilization to the fields of computer vision, human-computer interaction, and social robotics. We make our NITEC dataset publicly available to foster reproducibility and further exploration in the field of ego-vision interaction.


# Dataset Preparation, Models and further scripts will be published soon.
