Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Detection of eye contact with deep neural networks is as accurate as human experts

  • Eunji Chong,
  • Elysha Clark-Whitney,
  • Audrey Southerland,
  • Elizabeth Stubbs,
  • Chanel Miller,
  • Eliana L. Ajodan,
  • Melanie R. Silverman,
  • Catherine Lord,
  • Agata Rozga,
  • Rebecca M. Jones,
  • James M. Rehg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19712-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Eye contact is a key social behavior and its measurement could facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of autism. Here the authors show that a deep neural network model can detect eye contact as accurately has human experts.