This workshop features Collective Visual Sensing (CVS), a developing research area that aims to understand group attention and activities by analyzing information gathered from multiple wearable devices, such as wearable cameras and eye trackers.
Understanding user’s’ gaze information has become a blazing topic in VR/AR community along with the recent growth of wearable display systems. Some existing systems already enable us to shoot objects by “looking” in a VR world. Not only explicit directive information, gazes contains users’ implicit attention and behaviors. In the future, such systems would readily allow us to measure “what users want to do” by analysing their gazes. Furthermore, we foresee that interactions among users in VR/AR environments will drastically change by utilizing collective visual sensing, i.e. analyzing the gaze of multiple users in a shared workspace.
To foster this upcoming research topic, this workshop focuses on: (1) developing technologies for extracting measurements through the use of collective visual sensing, (2) developing technologies for understanding group activities and intent, and (3) building assistive systems based on developed technologies for various applications in collaborative workspaces.