CONF FunesMora_ETRA_2014/IDIAP EYEDIAP: A Database for the Development and Evaluation of Gaze Estimation Algorithms from RGB and RGB-D Cameras Funes Mora, Kenneth Alberto Monay, Florent Odobez, Jean-Marc EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2014/FunesMora_ETRA_2014.pdf PUBLIC Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications Safety Harbor, Florida, United States of America 2014 ACM 10.1145/2578153.2578190 doi The lack of a common benchmark for the evaluation of the gaze estimation task from RGB and RGB-D data is a serious limitation for distinguishing the advantages and disadvantages of the many proposed algorithms found in the literature. This paper intends to overcome this limitation by introducing a novel database along with a common framework for the training and evaluation of gaze estimation approaches. In particular, we have designed this database to enable the evaluation of the robustness of algorithms with respect to the main challenges associated to this task: i) Head pose variations; ii) Person variation; iii) Changes in ambient and sensing conditions and iv) Types of target: screen or 3D object.