3ET: Efficient Event-based Eye Tracking using a Change-Based ConvLSTM Network
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This paper presents a sparse Change-Based Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (CB-ConvLSTM) model for event-based eye tracking, key for next-generation wearable healthcare technology such as AR/VR headsets. We leverage the benefits of retina-inspired event cameras, namely their low-latency response and sparse output event stream, over traditional frame-based cameras. Our CB-ConvLSTM architecture efficiently extracts spatio-temporal features for pupil tracking from the event stream, outperforming conventional CNN structures. Utilizing a delta-encoded recurrent path enhancing activation sparsity, CB-ConvLSTM reduces arithmetic operations by approximately 4.7× without losing accuracy when tested on a textttv2e-generated event dataset of labeled pupils. This increase in efficiency makes it ideal for real-time eye tracking in resource-constrained devices. The project code and dataset are openly available at urlhttps://github.com/qinche106/cb-convlstm-eyetracking.
Key facts. Cited by 30 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 11 of its 20 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 22 Aug 2023.
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- 2019Event-based Vision: A Surveycited by 1,016
- 2020Event-based Asynchronous Sparse Convolutional Networkscited by 104
- 2020Event Based, Near Eye Gaze Tracking Beyond 10,000Hzcited by 53
- 2021TEyeD: Over 20 million real-world eye images with Pupil, Eyelid, and Iris 2D and 3D Segmentations, 2D and 3D Landmarks, 3D Eyeball, Gaze Vector, and Eye Movement Typescited by 32
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- 2023Single-Model and Any-Modality for Video Object Trackingcited by 65
- 2023Retina : Low-Power Eye Tracking with Event Camera and Spiking Hardwarecited by 27
- 2024Event-Based Eye Tracking. AIS 2024 Challenge Surveycited by 19
- 2024Rethinking Efficient and Effective Point-based Networks for Event Camera Classification and Regression: EventMambacited by 19
- 2024MambaPupil: Bidirectional Selective Recurrent model for Event-based Eye trackingcited by 8
- 2024Co-designing a Sub-millisecond Latency Event-based Eye Tracking System with Submanifold Sparse CNNcited by 8
- 2024FACET: Fast and Accurate Event-Based Eye Tracking Using Ellipse Modeling for Extended Realitycited by 8
- 2024FAPNet: An Effective Frequency Adaptive Point-based Eye Trackercited by 6
- 2025Exploring Temporal Dynamics in Event-based Eye Trackercited by 6
- 2025Event-Based Eye Tracking. 2025 Event-based Vision Workshopcited by 5
- 2024Modeling State Shifting via Local-Global Distillation for Event-Frame Gaze Trackingcited by 4
- 2025EgoEvGesture: Gesture Recognition Based on Egocentric Event Cameracited by 4
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- 2024GG-SSMs: Graph-Generating State Space Modelscited by 3
- 2025GazeSCRNN: Event-based Near-eye Gaze Tracking using a Spiking Neural Networkcited by 3
- 2025Dual-Path Enhancements in Event-Based Eye Tracking: Augmented Robustness and Adaptive Temporal Modelingcited by 3
- 2025Eye Gaze Tells You Where to Compute: Gaze-Driven Efficient VLMscited by 3
- 2024Text-to-Events: Synthetic Event Camera Streams from Conditional Text Inputcited by 2
- 2024EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicingcited by 2
- 2025JaneEye: A 12-nm 2K-FPS 18.9-μJ/Frame Event-based Eye Tracking Acceleratorcited by 1
- 2026SynSacc: A Blender-to-V2E Pipeline for Synthetic Neuromorphic Eye-Movement Data and Sim-to-Real Spiking Model Trainingcited by 1
- 2026LAND: A Longitudinal Analysis of Neuromorphic Datasetscited by 1
- 2025Inference-Time Gaze Refinement for Micro-Expression Recognition: Enhancing Event-Based Eye Tracking with Motion-Aware Post-Processingcited by 0
- 2025Realizing Fully-Integrated, Low-Power, Event-Based Pupil Tracking with Neuromorphic Hardwarecited by 0
- 2025Neuromorphic Eye Tracking for Low-Latency Pupil Detectioncited by 0
- 2025Reconstruction as a Bridge for Event-Based Visual Question Answeringcited by 0
- 2025Event-based high temporal resolution measurement of shock wave motion fieldcited by 0
- 2026Enhancing Eye Feature Estimation from Event Data Streams through Adaptive Inference State Space Modelingcited by 0
- 2026Event-based Liveness Detection using Temporal Ocular Dynamics: An Exploratory Approachcited by 0
- 2026EveLoad: Cognitive Workload Recognition from Event-Based Eye Movementscited by 0
- 2026EveLoad: Cognitive Workload Recognition from Event-Based Eye Movements23 Jun 2026
- 2026Event-based Liveness Detection using Temporal Ocular Dynamics: An Exploratory Approach29 Apr 2026
- 2026Enhancing Eye Feature Estimation from Event Data Streams through Adaptive Inference State Space Modeling14 Mar 2026
- 2026LAND: A Longitudinal Analysis of Neuromorphic Datasets17 Feb 2026
- 2026SynSacc: A Blender-to-V2E Pipeline for Synthetic Neuromorphic Eye-Movement Data and Sim-to-Real Spiking Model Training9 Feb 2026
- 2025Event-based high temporal resolution measurement of shock wave motion field27 Dec 2025
- 2025Reconstruction as a Bridge for Event-Based Visual Question Answering12 Dec 2025
- 2025Neuromorphic Eye Tracking for Low-Latency Pupil Detection10 Dec 2025
- 2025Realizing Fully-Integrated, Low-Power, Event-Based Pupil Tracking with Neuromorphic Hardware25 Nov 2025
- 2025Eye Gaze Tells You Where to Compute: Gaze-Driven Efficient VLMs20 Sep 2025
- 2025JaneEye: A 12-nm 2K-FPS 18.9-μJ/Frame Event-based Eye Tracking Accelerator18 Sep 2025
- 2025Inference-Time Gaze Refinement for Micro-Expression Recognition: Enhancing Event-Based Eye Tracking with Motion-Aware Post-Processing14 Jun 2025
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- 2025Event-Based Eye Tracking. 2025 Event-based Vision Workshop25 Apr 2025
- 2025Dual-Path Enhancements in Event-Based Eye Tracking: Augmented Robustness and Adaptive Temporal Modeling14 Apr 2025
- 2025Exploring Temporal Dynamics in Event-based Eye Tracker31 Mar 2025
- 2025GazeSCRNN: Event-based Near-eye Gaze Tracking using a Spiking Neural Network20 Mar 2025
- 2025EgoEvGesture: Gesture Recognition Based on Egocentric Event Camera16 Mar 2025
- 2024GG-SSMs: Graph-Generating State Space Models17 Dec 2024
- 2024EyeTrAES: Fine-grained, Low-Latency Eye Tracking via Adaptive Event Slicing27 Sep 2024
- 2024FACET: Fast and Accurate Event-Based Eye Tracking Using Ellipse Modeling for Extended Reality23 Sep 2024
- 2024Evaluating Image-Based Face and Eye Tracking with Event Cameras19 Aug 2024
- 2024Text-to-Events: Synthetic Event Camera Streams from Conditional Text Input5 Jun 2024
- 2024FAPNet: An Effective Frequency Adaptive Point-based Eye Tracker5 Jun 2024
- 2024Rethinking Efficient and Effective Point-based Networks for Event Camera Classification and Regression: EventMamba9 May 2024
- 2024Co-designing a Sub-millisecond Latency Event-based Eye Tracking System with Submanifold Sparse CNN22 Apr 2024
- 2024MambaPupil: Bidirectional Selective Recurrent model for Event-based Eye tracking18 Apr 2024
- 2024Event-Based Eye Tracking. AIS 2024 Challenge Survey17 Apr 2024
- 2024Modeling State Shifting via Local-Global Distillation for Event-Frame Gaze Tracking31 Mar 2024
- 2023Retina : Low-Power Eye Tracking with Event Camera and Spiking Hardware1 Dec 2023
- 2023Single-Model and Any-Modality for Video Object Tracking27 Nov 2023
- 2023Single-Model and Any-Modality for Video Object Trackingcited by 65
- 2023Retina : Low-Power Eye Tracking with Event Camera and Spiking Hardwarecited by 27
- 2024Event-Based Eye Tracking. AIS 2024 Challenge Surveycited by 19
- 2024Rethinking Efficient and Effective Point-based Networks for Event Camera Classification and Regression: EventMambacited by 19
- 2024MambaPupil: Bidirectional Selective Recurrent model for Event-based Eye trackingcited by 8
- 2024Co-designing a Sub-millisecond Latency Event-based Eye Tracking System with Submanifold Sparse CNNcited by 8
- 2024FACET: Fast and Accurate Event-Based Eye Tracking Using Ellipse Modeling for Extended Realitycited by 8
- 2024FAPNet: An Effective Frequency Adaptive Point-based Eye Trackercited by 6
- 2025Exploring Temporal Dynamics in Event-based Eye Trackercited by 6
- 2025Event-Based Eye Tracking. 2025 Event-based Vision Workshopcited by 5
- 2024Modeling State Shifting via Local-Global Distillation for Event-Frame Gaze Trackingcited by 4
- 2025EgoEvGesture: Gesture Recognition Based on Egocentric Event Cameracited by 4
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- 2026EveLoad: Cognitive Workload Recognition from Event-Based Eye Movements23 Jun 2026
- 2026Event-based Liveness Detection using Temporal Ocular Dynamics: An Exploratory Approach29 Apr 2026
- 2026Enhancing Eye Feature Estimation from Event Data Streams through Adaptive Inference State Space Modeling14 Mar 2026
- 2026LAND: A Longitudinal Analysis of Neuromorphic Datasets17 Feb 2026
- 2026SynSacc: A Blender-to-V2E Pipeline for Synthetic Neuromorphic Eye-Movement Data and Sim-to-Real Spiking Model Training9 Feb 2026
- 2025Event-based high temporal resolution measurement of shock wave motion field27 Dec 2025
- 2025Neuromorphic Eye Tracking for Low-Latency Pupil Detection10 Dec 2025
- 2025Realizing Fully-Integrated, Low-Power, Event-Based Pupil Tracking with Neuromorphic Hardware25 Nov 2025
- 2025JaneEye: A 12-nm 2K-FPS 18.9-μJ/Frame Event-based Eye Tracking Accelerator18 Sep 2025
- 2025Inference-Time Gaze Refinement for Micro-Expression Recognition: Enhancing Event-Based Eye Tracking with Motion-Aware Post-Processing14 Jun 2025
- 2025Event-Based Eye Tracking. 2025 Event-based Vision Workshop25 Apr 2025
- 2025Dual-Path Enhancements in Event-Based Eye Tracking: Augmented Robustness and Adaptive Temporal Modeling14 Apr 2025
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