An egocentric video and eye-tracking dataset for visual search in convenience stores

We introduce an egocentric video and eye-tracking dataset, comprised of 108 first-person videos of 36 shoppers searching for three different products (orange juice, KitKat chocolate bars, and canned tuna) in a convenience store, along with the frame-centered eye fixation locations for each video frame. The dataset also includes demographic information about each participant in the form of an 11-question survey. The paper describes two applications using the dataset - an analysis of eye fixations during search in the store, and a training of a clustered saliency model for predicting saliency of viewers engaged in product search in the store. The fixation analysis shows that fixation duration statistics are very similar to those found in image and video viewing, suggesting that similar visual processing is employed during search in 3D environments and during viewing of imagery on computer screens. A clustering technique was applied to the questionnaire data, which resulted in two clusters being detected. Based on these clusters, personalized saliency prediction models were trained on the store fixation data, which provided improved performance in prediction saliency on the store video data compared to state-of-the art universal saliency prediction methods.