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Roberto Cabeza

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
Duke Box 90999, Durham, NC 27708-0999
B243F LSRC Bldg, Ctr Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke Univ, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Conferences


Image-free approach to gaze estimation based on Laser Feedback Interformetry (LFI)

Conference ETRA 2026 Proceedings of the 2026 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications · May 31, 2026 Image-based eye tracking has been a well-established technology for decades, with applications not only in research but also in various fields such as HCI, psychology, marketing, and VR/AR. Despite its maturity, it still faces significant challenges that l ... Full text Cite

Beyond Basic Tuning: Exploring Discrepancies in User and Setup Calibration for Gaze Estimation

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · June 4, 2024 Calibrating gaze estimation models is crucial to maximize the effectiveness of these systems, although its implementation also poses challenges related to usability. Therefore, the simplification of this process is key. In this work, we dissect the impact ... Full text Cite

Calibration free eye tracking solution for mobile and embedded devices

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · May 30, 2023 In this study we propose a competent low-cost eye tracking solution that is able to run on any mobile device, independently of the hardware that is equipped with. The rapid evolution of technologies has enabled to work with many neural network structures t ... Full text Cite

Synthetic Gaze Data Augmentation for Improved User Calibration

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science · January 1, 2021 In this paper, we focus on the calibration possibilitiesó of a deep learning based gaze estimation process applying transfer learning, comparing its performance when using a general dataset versus when using a gaze specific dataset in the pretrained model. ... Full text Cite

Introducing I2head database

Conference Proceedings Petmei 2018 Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye Based Interaction · June 15, 2018 I2Head database has been created with the aim to become an optimal reference for low cost gaze estimation. It exhibits the following outstanding characteristics: it takes into account key aspects of low resolution eye tracking technology; it combines image ... Full text Cite

Supervised Descent Method (SDM) applied to accurate pupil detection in off-the-shelf eye tracking systems

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · June 14, 2018 The precise detection of pupil/iris center is key to estimate gaze accurately. This fact becomes specially challenging in low cost frameworks in which the algorithms employed for high performance systems fail. In the last years an outstanding effort has be ... Full text Cite

THE IMPACT OF FEEDBACK TIMING ON VALUE LEARNING IN AGING

Conference The Gerontologist · November 2015 Full text Cite

Design issues of remote eye tracking systems with large range of movement

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · March 26, 2014 One of the goals of the eye tracking community is to build systems that allow users to move freely. In general, there is a trade-off between the field of view of an eye tracking system and the gaze estimation accuracy. We aim to study how much the field of ... Full text Cite

NEURAL CORRELATES OF THE OWN-AGE BIAS IN YOUNGER AND OLDER ADULTS

Conference JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE · January 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

PERCEPTUAL PROCESSING ENHANCES THE EFFECT OF EMOTION ON RETRIEVAL: AN FMRI STUDY

Conference JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE · January 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Evaluation of pupil center-eye corner vector for gaze estimation using a web cam

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · March 28, 2012 Low cost eye tracking is an actual challenging research topic for the eye tracking community. Gaze tracking based on a web cam and without infrared light is a searched goal to broaden the applications of eye tracking systems. Web cam based eye tracking res ... Full text Cite

Error characterization and compensation in eye tracking systems

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · March 28, 2012 The development of systems that track the eye while allowing head movement is one of the most challenging objectives of gaze tracking researchers. Tracker accuracy decreases as the subject moves from the calibration position and is especially influenced by ... Full text Cite

Hybrid eye detection algorithm for outdoor environments

Conference Ubicomp 12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing · January 1, 2012 When performing eye detection in a driving scenario, new challenges arise that do not occur in a standard indoor eye tracking session. Rapid subject movement, non-controlled fast light variation and partial or total occlusions are the main problems that mu ... Full text Cite

Topography-based detection of the iris centre using multiple-resolution images

Conference Proceedings 2011 Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference Imvip 2011 · December 1, 2011 Low cost iris tracking is one of the most challenging research topics for the eye-tracking community. To this end, accurate detection of the iris centre in images captured by a web cam is a major goal. We propose a novel method for iris detection that is b ... Full text Cite

A novel heterogeneous framework for stereo matching

Conference Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Image Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Ipcv 2011 · December 1, 2011 Local stereo matching algorithms based on the adapting-weights strategy achieve accuracy similar to global approaches. One of the major problems of these local algorithms is that they are computationally expensive. However, algorithms with reduced computat ... Cite

Multi-shape - Hierarchical active shape models

Conference Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Image Processing Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Ipcv 2011 · December 1, 2011 Active Shape Models (ASMs) have become one of the most widespread segmentation paradigms since their inception in the early nineties. However, their capability to capture and model the shapes' variability is highly conditioned by the training set used. Try ... Cite

Full-automatic glottis segmentation with active shape models

Conference Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications 7th International Workshop Maveba 2011 · January 1, 2011 In this paper we present a new fullautomatic glottis segmentation scheme that combines traditional bottom-up image processing techniques with high-level shape constraints provided by the active shape Models. unlike previous statistical segmentation approac ... Cite

The impact of emotion on human cognition: Functional neuroimaging evidence

Conference INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY · September 1, 2006 Link to item Cite

Pupil brightness variation as a function of gaze direction

Conference Eye Tracking Research and Applications Symposium ETRA · March 27, 2006 Pupil detection represents one of the most critical aspects for eye tracking systems based on video oculography. A robust segmentation of the aforementioned feature determines to a large extent the degree of performance of the system. However, a question r ... Cite

VisualECG: A bluetooth based software for ECG monitoring on Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)

Conference 2004 2nd IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Medical Devices and Biosensors Isss Mdbs 2004 · December 1, 2004 VisualECG is a software application developed for ECG monitoring on Personal Digital Assistants (PDA's). Bluetooth technology is used to connect the ECG acquisition devices with the PDA receiver. This software is aimed to doctors that require a powerful to ... Cite

Robust algorithm for pupil-glint vector detection in a video-oculography eyetracking system

Conference Proceedings International Conference on Pattern Recognition · January 1, 2004 This paper presents a robust real time algorithm for an eye tracking system employing the well-known bright-pupil technique that performs an effective detection of the pupil and glint positions in the image. The accuracy in the processing is essential if a ... Full text Cite

A course on instrumentation: The signal processing approach

Conference Conference Record IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference · January 1, 1997 This paper describes a new course on Instrumentation given to Telecommunications Engineering students at the Universidad Publica de Navarra. This course has been introduced within the context of the renovation of curricula in Spain, in which instrumentatio ... Full text Cite

Analog universal active device: theory, design and applications

Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Microelectronics · December 1, 1995 This paper introduces the concept of what we call analog Universal Active Device (UAD), as an step forward from Operational Amplifiers and other recently proposed active devices. The model of such device is proposed together with an approach to obtain seve ... Cite

On the search for a 'universal' active element

Conference Proceedings IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems · December 1, 1994 In this paper we summarize the necessary properties that a nullor conceived to be a universal active device, must have. This approach lead us to propose a practical implementation of a nullor, consisting in a four terminal, fully floating transconductor wi ... Cite