Tracking the Leader: Gaze Behavior in Group Interactions.
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SUBMITTER: Capozzi F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6562365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun
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Tracking the Leader: Gaze Behavior in Group Interactions.
Capozzi Francesca F Beyan Cigdem C Pierro Antonio A Koul Atesh A Murino Vittorio V Livi Stefano S Bayliss Andrew P AP Ristic Jelena J Becchio Cristina C
iScience 20190528
Can social gaze behavior reveal the leader during real-world group interactions? To answer this question, we developed a novel tripartite approach combining (1) computer vision methods for remote gaze estimation, (2) a detailed taxonomy to encode the implicit semantics of multi-party gaze features, and (3) machine learning methods to establish dependencies between leadership and visual behaviors. We found that social gaze behavior distinctively identified group leaders. Crucially, the relationsh ...[more]
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