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Personality Gaze Patterns Unveiled via Automatic Relevance Determination

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Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations (STAF 2018)

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Understanding human gaze behaviour in social context, as along a face-to-face interaction, remains an open research issue which is strictly related to personality traits. In the effort to bridge the gap between available data and models, typical approaches focus on the analysis of spatial and temporal preferences of gaze deployment over specific regions of the observed face, while adopting classic statistical methods. In this note we propose a different analysis perspective based on novel data-mining techniques and a probabilistic classification method that relies on Gaussian Processes exploiting Automatic Relevance Determination (ARD) kernel. Preliminary results obtained on a publicly available dataset are provided.

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    Vittorio Cuculo, Alessandro D’Amelio, Raffaella Lanzarotti & Giuseppe Boccignone

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Cuculo, V., D’Amelio, A., Lanzarotti, R., Boccignone, G. (2018). Personality Gaze Patterns Unveiled via Automatic Relevance Determination. In: Mazzara, M., Ober, I., Salaün, G. (eds) Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations. STAF 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11176. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_14

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