Dr. Xucong Zhang
I am a postdoctoral researcher working at ETH Zurich in the Advanced Interaction Technologies Lab , led by Prof. Otmar Hilliges.
My ultimate goal is integrating humans and machines to free us from constrains of the physical body. My current research is about machine learning, computer vision and human-computer interaction. Specifically, I am working on gaze estimation and corresponding applications in the real-world setting.
E-Mail: xucong.zhang(AT)inf.ethz.ch
Links: Google Scholar, CV [PDF], DBLP, LinkedIn
Short Bio
I finished my PhD degree (summa cum laude) in 2018 at Max Planck Institute for Informatics, German, under supervision of Prof. Andreas Bulling. Prior to that, I received my Master degree in 2013 from Beihang University, China. I worked as an intern in CBSR Lab, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2011 to 2013.
Latest news
[01.2020] We are going to organise "OpenEyes" workshop at ECCV 2020.
[09.2019] We won the OpenEDS Challenge 2019 (Synthetic Eye Generation Challenge).
[07.2019] One paper is accepted at ICCV 2019.
[06.2019] We are going to organise a the 1st Gaze Estimation and Prediction in the Wild workshop at ICCV 2019.
Publications
2019
Photo-realistic Monocular Gaze Redirection using Generative Adversarial Networks
Zhe He, Adrian Spurr, Xucong Zhang, Otmar Hilliges. ICCV 2019.
[Project page] [PDF] [Code]
Evaluation of Appearance-Based Methods for Gaze-Based Applications
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. CHI 2019.
[Project page] [PDF]
2018
Learning to find eye region landmarks for remote gaze estimation in unconstrained settings
Seonwook Park , Xucong Zhang, Andreas Bulling, and Otmar Hilliges . ETRA 2018.
[Project page] [PDF] [Code]
Revisiting data normalization for appearance-based gaze estimation
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. ETRA 2018.
[Project page] [PDF]
Robust Eye Contact Detection in Natural Multi-Person Interactions Using Gaze and Speaking Behaviour
Philipp Müller, Xucong Zhang, Michael Xuelin Huang, and Andreas Bulling. ETRA 2018.
[Project page] [PDF]
Training Person-Specific Gaze Estimators from User Interactions with Multiple Devices
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. CHI 2018.
[PDF]
2017
Everyday Eye Contact Detection Using Unsupervised Gaze Target Discovery
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. UIST 2017. Best paper honorable mention award.
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It’s written all over your face: Full-face appearance-based gaze estimation
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, and Andreas Bulling. CVPRW 2017.
[Project page][PDF]
MPIIGaze: Real-World Dataset and Deep Appearance-Based Gaze Estimation
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, Mario Fritz , and Andreas Bulling. TPAMI 2017.
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2016
AggreGaze: Collective Estimation of Audience Attention on Public Displays
Yusuke Sugano, Xucong Zhang, Andreas Bulling. UIST 2016. Best paper honorable mention award.
[PDF]
Labelled pupils in the wild: A dataset for studying pupil detection in unconstrained environments
Marc Tonsen, Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, Andreas Bulling. ETRA 2016.
[Project page] [PDF]
Combining Eye Tracking with Optimizations for Lens Astigmatism in modern wide-angle HMDs
Daniel Pohl , Xucong Zhang, Andreas Bulling. VR 2016.
[PDF]
2015
Rendering of eyes for eye-shape registration and gaze estimation
Erroll Wood, Tadas Baltrušaitis, Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, Peter Robinson, Andreas Bulling. ICCV 2015.
[Project page] [PDF]
Appearance-based gaze estimation in the wild
Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano, Mario Fritz, Andreas Bulling. CVPR 2015.
[Project page]
2011-2013
Robust multi-resolution pedestrian detection in traffic scenes
Junjie Yan, Xucong Zhang, Zhen Lei, Shengcai Liao, and Stan Z. Li. CVPR 2013. Accepted as oral.
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Water Filling: Unsupervised People Counting via Vertical Kinect Sensor
Xucong Zhang, Junjie Yan, Shikun Feng , Zhen Lei, Dong Yi, and Stan Z. Li . AVSS 2012. Accepted as oral.
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Professional activity, awards and talks
Organizing committee
Organizer committee of the "OpenEyes" workshop at ECCV 2020.
Organizer committee of the 1st Gaze Estimation and Prediction in the Wild workshop at ICCV 2019
Teaching
Two classes on Machine Perception - SS '19 at ETH Zurich
Supervision/Co-supervision
Mater thesis, Valentin Venzin, Person-Speci c Human EyeGaze-Base Interactions. 2020
Master thesis [ongoing], Yufeng Deng, Accurate and Photo-realistic person-speci c gaze re-direction. 2020
Semester Project, Marcel Buhler, Feature Preserving Image Translation for Gaze Estimation. 2019
Reviewing
Journals: TPAMI 2017, TPAMI 2019, MM 2019.
Conferences: CVPR 2020, ETRA 2020, CVPR 2020, IMWUT 2020, ETRA 2019, CHI 2019, CHI 2018, ETRA 2018, UIST 2017, IMWUT 2017, Augmented Human 2017, IWBF 2017, UIST 2017, Multimedia 2017, UIST 2016, ETRA 2016
Awards and Fellowships
2019, The first place of OpenEDS Challenge 2019 at ICCV 2019.
2017, Best paper honorable mention award, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2017)
2016, Best paper honorable mention award, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2016)
2013--2015, International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science (IMPRS-CS) Scholarship, Germany
Invited talks
May, 2018 ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Hosted by Prof. Otmar Hilliges.
March, 2018 The University of Tokyo, Japan. Hosted by Prof. Yoichi Sato.
March, 2018 Osaka University, Japan. Hosted by Prof. Yusuke Sugano.
March, 2018 Keio University, Japan. Hosted by Prof. Kai Kunze.