Don't Look at the Camera: Achieving Perceived Eye Contact
<|reference_start|>Don't Look at the Camera: Achieving Perceived Eye Contact: We consider the question of how to best achieve the perception of eye contact when a person is captured by camera and then rendered on a 2D display. For single subjects photographed by a camera, conventional wisdom tells us that looking directly into the camera achieves eye contact. Through empirical user studies, we show that it is instead preferable to {\em look just below the camera lens}. We quantitatively assess where subjects should direct their gaze relative to a camera lens to optimize the perception that they are making eye contact.<|reference_end|>
@article{gao2024don't,
    title={Don't Look at the Camera: Achieving Perceived Eye Contact},
    author={Alice Gao, Samyukta Jayakumar, Marcello Maniglia, Brian Curless, Ira
  Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Aaron R. Seitz, Steven M. Seitz},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17104},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.17104},
    primaryClass={cs.HC cs.CV}
}