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GMGaze: MoE-Based Context-Aware Gaze Estimation with CLIP and Multiscale Transformer

Xinyuan Zhao , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Sarah A. Alkhodair , Reem Kateb
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keywords gaze estimationCLIPmixture of expertsmulti-scale transformerprototype conditioningdomain adaptationcontext awarenessearly fusion
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The pith

GMGaze conditions CLIP features on four learned prototype banks for illumination, background, head pose and appearance before early fusion in a multi-scale transformer with sparse MoE layers.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper tries to establish that semantic prototype conditioning can generate useful context-biased global tokens from CLIP embeddings, which when fused early with patch and CNN tokens and processed through mixture-of-experts modules, overcome late fusion losses, missing factor awareness, and rigid capacity scaling in gaze estimation. A sympathetic reader would care because gaze direction prediction under real-world variation supports applications from driver monitoring to interactive displays, yet prior CNN, transformer, and CLIP approaches each leave one of the three challenges unaddressed. The method adds an adversarial feature separation loss to keep the two global tokens de-correlated during cross-domain adaptation.

Core claim

GMGaze introduces semantic prototype conditioning to modulate the CLIP global image embedding using four learned prototype banks (illumination, background, head pose, and appearance) and thereby produces two complementary context-biased global tokens. These tokens are fused at the first layer with CLIP patch tokens and CNN tokens inside a multi-scale transformer; each token then routes through sparse Mixture-of-Experts modules that supply conditional computation. Adversarial domain adaptation together with a feature separation loss keeps the global tokens de-correlated for cross-domain transfer.

What carries the argument

semantic prototype conditioning, which modulates the CLIP global embedding with four learned prototype banks to produce context-biased global tokens for early unified fusion inside the multi-scale transformer

If this is right

  • Within-domain mean angular errors fall to 2.49°, 3.22°, 10.16°, and 1.44° on MPIIFaceGaze, EYEDIAP, Gaze360, and ETH-XGaze respectively.
  • The model outperforms prior baselines on all four within-domain benchmarks.
  • State-of-the-art results appear on two standard cross-domain transfer routes.
  • Early-layer fusion of the context-biased tokens prevents the information loss that occurs when features are merged only at the end of the network.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same prototype-bank mechanism could be tested on other context-sensitive vision tasks such as facial action unit detection where lighting and pose also vary independently.
  • Because the MoE layers add capacity only where needed, the architecture may allow higher-resolution input images without a linear rise in total parameters.
  • Keeping the two global tokens de-correlated may offer a lightweight way to disentangle scene factors in other multimodal models that currently rely on heavy contrastive losses.

Load-bearing premise

The four learned prototype banks can be trained to produce useful, non-redundant context information that improves downstream gaze prediction without overfitting to the specific training distributions of the four benchmarks.

What would settle it

Training and testing on a held-out dataset that combines illumination and head-pose values outside the ranges of MPIIFaceGaze, EYEDIAP, Gaze360, and ETH-XGaze; if mean angular error then rises above the best non-prototype baseline, the conditioning step does not generalize.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.00799 by Ahmad Chaddad, Reem Kateb, Sarah A. Alkhodair, Xinyuan Zhao, Yihang Wu.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Gaze visualization of the proposed GMGaze on unseen frames from public videos. CLIP embeddings into complementary, context-aware repre￾sentations, enabling explicit factor-aware modeling. Further￾more, we design an early unified token fusion strategy that integrates global, patch-level, and CNN features at the input stage, allowing cross-scale interactions from the beginning to mitigate the late fusion. In… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Flowchart of GMGaze. Left: Pre-defined prompt banks (Illuminations, Backgrounds, Head poses, and Descriptions) are encoded by the frozen CLIP text encoder to initialize learnable semantic prototype banks. Middle: A CLIP image encoder outputs a global embedding and patch tokens; a CNN provides high-resolution local tokens. The semantic tokens T𝐼1 , T𝐻1 , T𝐵1 , and T𝑑 encode key contextual dimensions: Illumi… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: (Left): Example of dense transformer layer, which consists of multi head attention (MHA) followed by a FFN. (Right): MoE transformer layer in which a FFN block is replaced by a set of experts, which operate in parallel. The final prediction head ultimately yields the 3D gaze direction predictions (𝑑𝑥 , 𝑑𝑦 , 𝑑𝑧 ). dataset distributions, without changing the original textual semantics or the parameters withi… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Overall training paradigm of cross-domain setting. During training, a domain discriminator is jointly optimized with the GMGaze to perform adversarial domain adaptation, reducing the distribution discrepancy between source and target domains. Meanwhile, the absolute cosine similarity between the two global semantic feature vectors (𝒇1 and 𝒇2 ) is minimized to separate them into orthogonal directions in the… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Example for samples from the four benchmarks (EYEDIAP, Gaze360, ETH-XGaze, MPIIFaceGaze), showing diversity in illumination, head pose, background, and appearance (First row). 2D gaze direction distributions (yaw vs. pitch, degrees) for these datasets (Second row). Each point corresponds to a labeled gaze sample; the colormap encodes log-scaled sample density (warmer colors = higher frequency) [PITH_FULL_… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of predictions in within dataset (1-2 row) and cross-domain (3-4 row) evaluation. Green arrows represents the ground truth, red arrows means the predictions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of MoE expert load across datasets (within-domain setting). Top: selection proportion (percentage of token assignments per expert). Bottom: normalized weight proportion (sum of gating weights per expert, normalized) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Example of failure cases from cross-domain setting using the EYEDIAP as target domain. injecting the two context-biased tokens early is more effective than late fusion via cross-attention or merging only at the prediction stage.This is consistent with the goal of using the global context to guide the generation of local tokens within the Transformer. Furthermore, prototype conditioning benefits from both C… view at source ↗
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Gaze estimation methods commonly use facial appearances to predict the direction of a person gaze. However, previous studies show three major challenges with convolutional neural network (CNN)-based, transformer-based, and contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP)-based methods, including late fusion of image features, lack of factor-aware conditioning, and impractical capacity scaling. To address these challenges, we propose Globally-conditioned Multi-scale Gaze estimation (GMGaze), which leverages a multi-scale transformer architecture. Specifically, the model first introduces semantic prototype conditioning, which modulates the CLIP global image embedding using four learned prototype banks (i.e., illumination, background, head pose and appearance) to generate two complementary context-biased global tokens. These tokens, along with the CLIP patch and CNN tokens, are fused at the first layer. This early unified fusion prevents information loss common in late-stage merging. Finally, each token passes through sparse Mixture-of-Experts modules, providing conditional computational capacity without uniformly increasing dense parameters. For cross-domain adaptation, we incorporate an adversarial domain adaptation technique with a feature separation loss that encourages the two global tokens to remain de-correlated. Experiments using four public benchmarks (MPIIFaceGaze, EYEDIAP, Gaze360, and ETH-XGaze) show that GMGaze achieves mean angular errors of 2.49$^\circ$, 3.22$^\circ$, 10.16$^\circ$, and 1.44$^\circ$, respectively, outperforming previous baselines in all within-domain settings. In cross-domain evaluations, it provides state-of-the-art (SOTA) results on two standard transfer routes.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes GMGaze, a gaze estimation architecture that introduces semantic prototype conditioning: four learned prototype banks (illumination, background, head pose, appearance) modulate the CLIP global embedding to produce two complementary context-biased global tokens. These tokens are early-fused at the first layer with CLIP patch tokens and CNN tokens inside a multi-scale transformer; each token then routes through sparse Mixture-of-Experts layers. An adversarial domain-adaptation module with an explicit feature-separation loss is added to encourage decorrelation of the two global tokens for cross-domain transfer. On four public benchmarks the model reports mean angular errors of 2.49°, 3.22°, 10.16°, and 1.44° and claims state-of-the-art within-domain performance plus SOTA on two standard cross-domain routes.

Significance. If the reported error reductions are shown to arise from the semantic conditioning and early-fusion mechanism rather than from increased effective capacity or benchmark-specific tuning, the work would usefully address the late-fusion and factor-aware-conditioning limitations noted in prior CNN-, transformer-, and CLIP-based gaze estimators. The concrete numerical results on standard public datasets and the inclusion of both within- and cross-domain protocols are positive features that facilitate direct comparison.

major comments (2)
  1. [Methods (prototype conditioning)] Methods section (semantic prototype conditioning): the central explanatory claim is that the four learned prototype banks generate distinct, non-redundant context-biased tokens that improve gaze prediction. No ablation removing individual banks, no activation statistics across the banks, and no quantitative disentanglement or redundancy metrics are provided; without these it is impossible to rule out that the observed gains (e.g., 2.49° on MPIIFaceGaze) simply reflect added capacity rather than the claimed factor-aware conditioning.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section (cross-domain results): the claim of SOTA on two standard transfer routes is load-bearing for the generalization argument, yet the manuscript supplies neither the exact source-target pairs used, nor statistical significance tests, nor comparisons against the full set of recent domain-adaptation baselines. This leaves the cross-domain superiority difficult to evaluate.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and §4: the phrase “impractical capacity scaling” is used without accompanying parameter counts or FLOPs tables comparing GMGaze to the cited baselines.
  2. [Methods] Notation: the two complementary global tokens produced by the prototype banks are referred to interchangeably as “context-biased global tokens” and “global tokens”; a single consistent label would improve readability.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper accordingly to strengthen the presentation of our contributions.

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  1. Referee: Methods section (semantic prototype conditioning): the central explanatory claim is that the four learned prototype banks generate distinct, non-redundant context-biased tokens that improve gaze prediction. No ablation removing individual banks, no activation statistics across the banks, and no quantitative disentanglement or redundancy metrics are provided; without these it is impossible to rule out that the observed gains (e.g., 2.49° on MPIIFaceGaze) simply reflect added capacity rather than the claimed factor-aware conditioning.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript would benefit from explicit empirical validation to demonstrate that the gains derive from the semantic prototype conditioning mechanism rather than from added capacity alone. The four prototype banks are designed to capture distinct factors (illumination, background, head pose, appearance) and produce complementary tokens via modulation of the CLIP global embedding, with early fusion intended to integrate this information effectively before the multi-scale transformer and MoE layers. To address this, we will add in the revised version: individual ablations removing each bank and reporting the resulting angular errors; activation or routing statistics across banks on sample images; and quantitative disentanglement metrics such as pairwise cosine similarity or correlation between the two context-biased tokens. These additions will provide direct evidence for the non-redundant, factor-aware nature of the conditioning. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Experiments section (cross-domain results): the claim of SOTA on two standard transfer routes is load-bearing for the generalization argument, yet the manuscript supplies neither the exact source-target pairs used, nor statistical significance tests, nor comparisons against the full set of recent domain-adaptation baselines. This leaves the cross-domain superiority difficult to evaluate.

    Authors: We will clarify and expand the cross-domain evaluation in the revision. We will explicitly state the exact source-target pairs corresponding to the two standard transfer routes on which SOTA is claimed. We will add statistical significance testing (e.g., paired t-tests on the per-subject or per-sequence angular errors) to support the reported improvements. We will also broaden the baseline comparisons to include additional recent domain-adaptation methods from the gaze estimation literature. The adversarial domain-adaptation module together with the feature-separation loss is intended to promote decorrelation of the two global tokens and thereby improve transfer; we will include further implementation details and ablation results on this component to aid evaluation. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical results on external benchmarks with no derivation chain

full rationale

The paper describes an architectural model (GMGaze) involving semantic prototype conditioning with four learned banks, early fusion of tokens, sparse MoE layers, and adversarial domain adaptation with a feature separation loss. It reports mean angular errors on four public external benchmarks (MPIIFaceGaze, EYEDIAP, Gaze360, ETH-XGaze) and claims SOTA in some cross-domain settings. No equations, derivations, or first-principles predictions are present in the manuscript. Performance claims are measured directly against held-out data from independent datasets rather than reducing to internally fitted quantities or self-referential definitions. The prototype banks are a modeling choice whose utility is evaluated empirically, not derived by construction from the results themselves.

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    Learned embeddings for illumination, background, head pose, and appearance that modulate the CLIP global token.

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