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Data Limitations for Modeling Top-Down Effects on Drivers' Attention
Iuliia Kotseruba, John K. Tsotsos
Driving is a visuomotor task, i.e., there is a connection between what drivers see and what they do. While some models of drivers' gaze account for top-down effects of drivers' actions, the majority learn only bottom-up correlations between human gaze and driving footage. The crux of the problem is lack of public data with annotations that could be used to train top-down models and evaluate how well models of any kind capture effects of task on attention. As a result, top-down models are trained and evaluated on private data and public benchmarks measure only the overall fit to human data. In this paper, we focus on data limitations by examining four large-scale public datasets, DR(eye)VE, BDD-A, MAAD, and LBW, used to train and evaluate algorithms for drivers' gaze prediction. We define a set of driving tasks (lateral and longitudinal maneuvers) and context elements (intersections and right-of-way) known to affect drivers' attention, augment the datasets with annotations based on the said definitions, and analyze the characteristics of data recording and processing pipelines w.r.t. capturing what the drivers see and do. In sum, the contributions of this work are: 1) quantifying biases of the public datasets, 2) examining performance of the SOTA bottom-up models on subsets of the data involving non-trivial drivers' actions, 3) linking shortcomings of the bottom-up models to data limitations, and 4) recommendations for future data collection and processing. The new annotations and code for reproducing the results is available at https://github.com/ykotseruba/SCOUT.
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