Prof. Dr. Enkelejda Kasneci

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University of Tübingen
Dpt. of Computer Science
Human-Computer Interaction
Sand 14
72076 Tübingen
Germany

Telephone: +49 - (0) 70 71 - 29 - 74015
Telefax: +49 - (0) 70 71 - 29 - 50 62
E-Mail: enkelejda.kasneci@uni-tuebingen.de
Office: Sand 14, C221
Office hours: on appointment

Enkelejda Kasneci is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where she leads the Human-Computer Interaction Lab. As a BOSCH scholar, she received her M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Stuttgart in 2007. In 2013, she received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Tübingen. For her PhD research, she was awarded the research prize of the Federation Südwestmetall in 2014. From 2013 to 2015, she was a postdoctoral researcher and a Margarete-von-Wrangell Fellow at the University of Tübingen. Her research evolves around the application of machine learning for intelligent and perceptual human-computer interaction. She served as academic editor for PlosOne and as a TPC member and reviewer for several major conferences and journals.

Research Interests

Eye-tracking methods and applications, especially eye tracking in the wild
Applied machine learning
Eye movements and driving
Autonomous driving and Driver Observation Technology
Eye movements and VR/AR

Invited Talks

2020: Closing Keynote at Augmented Human, AH 2020
2019: Machine Learning in Education, FernUni Hagen
2019: Keynote at the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, ETRA 2019
2019: Opening Keynote European Conference on Eye Movements, ECEM 2019
2018: Keynote on Cognitive Interfaces, Ada-Lovelace-Festival, Berlin
2018: Global Female Leaders Summit, Berlin
2017: Hub.Berlin
2017: Ada-Lovelace-Festival, Berlin
2017: Eye-Tracking während des Fahrens, OCG Jahresopening 2017, Vienna
2016: It’s in your eyes – How eye tracking will shape our future, Ada-Lovelace-Festival, Berlin
2016: Maschinelles Lernen und Eye-Tracking-Technologie zur Erforschung der Mechanismen der visuellen Wahrnehmung, INFORMATIK2016, Klagenfurt
2015: Eye tracking in natural settings - Challenges and opportunities, Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Universität zu Lübeck
2015: Arbitrarily shaped areas of interest based on gaze density gradient, European Conference on Eye Movements, ECEM 2015, Vienna
2015: Exploiting the potential of eye movements analysis in the driving context, Perceptual User Interfaces Group, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken
2015: Eye movements and driving, Volkswagen Research Center, Wolfsburg
2014: Online Eye-Tracking Data Analysis, SMI Vision, Research Center Berlin
2013: Towards the Automated Recognition of Assistance Need for Drivers with Impaired Visual Field, Mercedes-Benz Technology Center Sindelfingen

Scholarships, Awards and Administrative Functions

since 2016 Associated Member of the Learning, Educational Achievement, and Life Course Development (LEAD), Graduate School and Research Network
since 2016 Junior Fellow of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI))
since 2016 Fast Track program of the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Excellence and Leadership Skills for Outstanding Women in Science)
2016 NVIDIA Hardware Grant
2014 - 2015 Margarete-von-Wrangell-Fellowship
2014 Südwestmetall-Förderpreis 2014 für Nachwuchswissenschaftler
2001-2007 Scholarship of the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung

Publications

RemoteEye: An open-source high-speed remote eye tracker

by Benedikt Hosp, Shahram Eivazi, Maximilian Maurer, Woflgang Fuhl, David Geisler, and Enkelejda Kasneci

In Behavior Research Methods. Springer, 2020.

Course	Term
Forschungsprojekt AB E. Kasneci
Multimodale Mensch-Maschine Interaktion
Proseminar Grundlagen Mensch-Maschine Interaktion
Seminar Advanced Topics in Perception Engineering
Advanced Topics in Perception Engineering
Computational Models of Visual Attention
Eye Movements and Visual Perception
Eye Movements and Visual Perception
Eye Movements and Visual Perception
Grundlagen der Multimediatechnik
Praktikum zu Grundlagen der Multimediatechnik
Programmieren mobiler eingebetteter Systeme
Programmieren mobiler eingebetteter Systeme
Programmieren mobiler eingebetteter Systeme
Programmieren mobiler eingebetteter Systeme
Technische Anwendungen der Informatik: Hard- und Software aktueller Eye-Tracking-Systeme
Technische Anwendungen der Informatik: Hard- und Software aktueller Eye-Tracking-Systeme
Technische Anwendungen der Informatik: Hard- und Software aktueller Eye-Tracking-Systeme
Seminar: Advanced Topics in Perception Engineering
Eye Tracking in Mobile Computing and Virtual Reality

Prof. Dr. Enkelejda Kasneci

Content

Research Interests

Invited Talks

Scholarships, Awards and Administrative Functions

Publications

RemoteEye: An open-source high-speed remote eye tracker

Deep semantic gaze embedding and scanpath comparison for expertise classification during OPT viewing

Privacy Preserving Gaze Estimation using Synthetic Images via a Randomized Encoding Based Framework

A Novel -Eye-Tracking Sensor for AR Glasses Based on Laser Self-Mixing Showing Exceptional Robustness Against Illumination

Exploiting the GBVS for Saliency aware Gaze Heatmaps

A MinHash approach for fast scanpath classification

Training Decision Trees as Replacement for Convolution Layers

Tiny convolution, decision tree, and binary neuronal networks for robust and real time pupil outline estimation

Neural networks for optical vector and eye ball parameter estimation

Encodji: Encoding Gaze Data Into Emoji Space for an Amusing Scanpath Classification Approach ;)

Person Independent, Privacy Preserving, and Real Time Assessment of Cognitive Load using Eye Tracking in a Virtual Reality Setup

Improving Real-Time CNN-Based Pupil Detection Through Domain-Specific Data Augmentation

Get a Grip: Slippage-Robust and Glint-Free Gaze Estimation for Real-Time Pervasive Head-Mounted Eye Tracking

Ferns for area of interest free scanpath classification

500,000 images closer to eyelid and pupil segmentation

RemoteEye: An Open Source remote Eye Tracker

The applicability of Cycle GANs for pupil and eyelid segmentation, data generation and image refinement

Learning to validate the quality of detected landmarks

Assessment of Driver Attention During a Safety Critical Situation in VR to Generate VR-based Training

Eye-Hand Behavior in Human-Robot Shared Manipulation

Real-time 3D Glint Detection in Remote Eye Tracking Based on Bayesian Inference

PuRe: Robust Pupil Detection for Real-Time Pervasive Eye Tracking

The Art of Pervasive Eye Tracking: Unconstrained Eye Tracking in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere

Teachers’ Perception in the Classroom

PuReST: Robust Pupil Tracking for Real-Time Pervasive Eye Tracking

Overlooking: The nature of gaze behavior and anomaly detection in expert dentists

CBF:Circular binary features for robust and real-time pupil center detection

Teachers’ Perception in the Classroom

Development and Evaluation of a Gaze Feedback System Integrated into EyeTrace

An Inconspicuous and Modular Head-Mounted Eye Tracker

Automatic generation of saliency-based areas of interest

Region of interest generation algorithms for eye tracking data

Scanpath comparison in medical image reading skills of dental students

MAM: Transfer learning for fully automatic video annotation and specialized detector creation

Eye movement velocity and gaze data generator for evaluation, robustness testing and assess of eye tracking software and visualization tools

BORE: Boosted-oriented edge optimization for robust, real time remote pupil center detection

Rule based learning for eye movement type detection

Histogram of oriented velocities for eye movement detection

Eye movement simulation and detector creation to reduce laborious parameter adjustments

Online recognition of driver-activity based on visual scanpath classification

Eye tracking as a tool to evaluate functional ability in everyday tasks in glaucoma

Saliency Sandbox: Bottom-Up Saliency Framework

EyeRecToo: Open-Source Software for Real-Time Pervasive Head-Mounted Eye-Tracking

EyeLad: Remote Eye Tracking Image Labeling Tool

Fast and Robust Eyelid Outline and Aperture Detection in Real-World Scenarios

Aggregating physiological and eye tracking signals to predict perception in the absence of ground truth

Ways of improving the precision of eye tracking data: Controlling the influence of dirt and dust on pupil detection

CalibMe: Fast and Unsupervised Eye Tracker Calibration for Gaze-Based Pervasive Human-Computer Interaction

Towards pervasive eye tracking

Using Eye Tracking to Evaluate and Develop Innovative Teaching Strategies for Fostering Image Reading Skills of Novices in Medical Training

Automatic Mapping of Remote Crowd Gaze to Stimuli in the Classroom

Towards Intelligent Surgical Microscopes: Surgeons Gaze and Instrument Tracking

Towards automatic skill evaluation in microsurgery

Monitoring Response Quality During Campimetry Via Eye-Tracking

PupilNet v2.0: Convolutional Neural Networks for Robust Pupil Detection

Fast camera focus estimation for gaze-based focus control

Optimal eye movement strategies: a comparison of neurosurgeons gaze patterns when using a surgical microscope

EyeRec: An Open-source Data Acquisition Software for Head-mounted Eye-tracking

3D Gaze Estimation Using Eye Vergence

Rendering refraction and reflection of eyeglasses for synthetic eye tracker images

On the necessity of adaptive eye movement classification in conditionally automated driving scenarios

ElSe: Ellipse Selection for Robust Pupil Detection in Real-World Environments

Bayesian Identification of Fixations, Saccades, and Smooth Pursuits

Pupil detection for head-mounted eye tracking in the wild: An evaluation of the state of the art

SubsMatch 2.0: Scanpath comparison and classification based on subsequence frequencies

Eyes Wide Open? Eyelid Location and Eye Aperture Estimation for Pervasive Eye Tracking in Real-World Scenarios

Brightness- and Motion-Based Blink Detection for Head-Mounted Eye Trackers

Novel methods for analysis and visualization of saccade trajectories

Non-Intrusive Practitioner Pupil Detection for Unmodified Microscope Oculars

Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Pupil Detection Algorithms on Remote Eye Images

Feature-based attentional influences on the accommodation response

PupilNet: Convolutional Neural Networks for Robust Pupil Detection

Towards Automated Scan Pattern Analysis for Dynamic Scenes

Online Recognition of Fixations, Saccades, and Smooth Pursuits for Automated Analysis of Traffic Hazard Perception