Human Computer Interaction

Dr. Thiago Santini

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

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+49 - (0) 70 71 - 29 - 50 62
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tcsantini.​tuebingen@​gmail.​com
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Sand 14, C205a
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Re­search In­ter­ests

Eye Track­ing

  • Au­to­matic clas­si­fi­ca­tion of eye move­ments
  • Open-source eye-track­ing soft­ware
  • Pupil de­tec­tion and track­ing meth­ods
  • Cal­i­bra­tion / Gaze es­ti­ma­tion meth­ods
  • Al­go­rithms for the analy­sis and vi­su­al­iza­tion of eye track­ing data

Em­bed­ded Sys­tems / Com­puter Ar­chi­tec­ture and Or­ga­ni­za­tion

  • Ra­di­a­tion ef­fects
  • Op­er­at­ing sys­tems
  • Cache mem­o­ries
  • Net­works-on-chip
  • Multi/many­core ar­chi­tec­tures
  • Par­al­lel pro­gram­ming

Pub­li­ca­tions

2020

Dis­till­ing Lo­ca­tion Pro­pos­als of Un­known Ob­jects Through Gaze In­for­ma­tion for Hu­man-Ro­bot In­ter­ac­tion

Daniel Weber, Thi­ago San­tini, An­dreas Zell, and Enkele­jda Kas­neci. IEEE/RSJ In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on In­tel­li­gent Ro­bots and Sys­tems (IROS). IEEE, 2020.

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The dis­play makes a dif­fer­ence: A mo­bile eye track­ing study on the per­cep­tion of art be­fore and after a mu­seum’s re­arrange­ment

L. Re­itstätter, H. Brinkmann, T. San­tini, E. Specker, Z. Dare, F. Bakondi, A. Mis­cená, E. Kas­neci, H. Leder, and R. Rosen­berg. Peer-re­viewed pub­li­ca­tion, 2020.

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2019

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

Wolf­gang Fuhl, Efe Bozkir, Benedikt Hosp, Nora Cast­ner, David Geisler, Thi­ago C., and Enkele­jda Kas­neci. Eye Track­ing Re­search and Ap­pli­ca­tions, 2019.

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

S. Eivazi, T. San­tini, A. Ke­shavarzi, T. C. Kübler, and A. Mazzei. Pro­ceed­ings of the 2019 ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA) – To Ap­pear, 2019.

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

T. San­tini, D. Niehorster, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the 2019 ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA), 2019.

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2018

Eye-Hand Be­hav­ior in Hu­man-Ro­bot Shared Ma­nip­u­la­tion

R. M., T. San­tini, T. C. Kübler, E. Kas­neci, S. Srini­vasa, and H. Ad­moni. Pro­ceed­ings of the 13th An­nual ACM/IEEE In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Human Robot In­ter­ac­tion, 2018.

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

T. San­tini, H. Brinkmann, L. Reistätter, H. Leder, R. Rosen­berg, W. Rosen­stiel, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the 2018 ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA): Ad­junct pub­li­ca­tion – PET­MEI 2018, 2018.

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

T. San­tini, W. Fuhl, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the 2018 ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA), 2018.

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

W. Fuhl, D. Geisler, T. San­tini, T. Appel, W. Rosen­stiel, and E. Kas­neci. ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions, 2018.

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An In­con­spic­u­ous and Mod­u­lar Head-Mounted Eye Tracker

S. Eivazi, T. Kübler, T. San­tini, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the 2018 ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA) , 2018.

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Au­to­matic gen­er­a­tion of saliency-based areas of in­ter­est

W. Fuhl, T. Kübler, T. San­tini, and E. Kas­neci. Sym­po­sium on Vi­sion, Mod­el­ing and Vi­su­al­iza­tion (VMV), 2018.

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2017

Saliency Sand­box: Bot­tom-Up Saliency Frame­work

D. Geisler, W. Fuhl, T. San­tini, and E. Kas­neci. 12th Joint Con­fer­ence on Com­puter Vi­sion, Imag­ing and Com­puter Graph­ics The­ory and Ap­pli­ca­tions (VISI­GRAPP 2017), 2017.

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

T. San­tini, W. Fuhl, D. Geisler, and E. Kas­neci. 12th Joint Con­fer­ence on Com­puter Vi­sion, Imag­ing and Com­puter Graph­ics The­ory and Ap­pli­ca­tions (VISI­GRAPP 2017), 2017.

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Eye­Lad: Re­mote Eye Track­ing Image La­bel­ing Tool

W. Fuhl, T. San­tini, D. Geisler, T. C. Kübler, and E. Kas­neci. 12th Joint Con­fer­ence on Com­puter Vi­sion, Imag­ing and Com­puter Graph­ics The­ory and Ap­pli­ca­tions (VISI­GRAPP 2017), 2017.

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

W. Fuhl, T. San­tini, and E. Kas­neci. IEEE Win­ter Con­fer­ence on Ap­pli­ca­tions of Com­puter Vi­sion (WACV 2017), 2017.

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Ef­fec­tive­ness of Soft­ware-Based Hard­en­ing for Ra­di­a­tion-In­duced Soft Er­rors in Real-Time Op­er­at­ing Sys­tems

T. San­tini, C. Borchert, C. Di­et­rich, H. Schirmeier, M. Hoff­mann, O. Spinczyk, D. Lohmann, F. R., and P. Rech. Pro­ceed­ings of the 30th In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Ar­chi­tec­ture of Com­put­ing Sys­tems - ARCS, 2017.

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

T. San­tini, W. Fuhl, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the 2017 CHI Con­fer­ence on Human Fac­tors in Com­put­ing Sys­tems, 2017.

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Au­to­matic Map­ping of Re­mote Crowd Gaze to Stim­uli in the Class­room

T. San­tini, T. C. Kübler, L. Draghetti, P. Ger­jets, W. Wag­ner, U. Trautwein, and E. Kas­neci. Eye Track­ing En­hanced Learn­ing (ETEL2017), 2017.

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2016

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

T. San­tini, W. Fuhl, T. C. Kübler, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the 11th Joint Con­fer­ence on Com­puter Vi­sion, Imag­ing and Com­puter Graph­ics The­ory and Ap­pli­ca­tions (VISI­GRAPP) 3: VIS­APP: 386–391, 2016.

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Eval­u­at­ing the Ra­di­a­tion Re­li­a­bil­ity of De­pend­abil­ity-Ori­ented Real-Time Op­er­at­ing Sys­tems

T. San­tini, C. Borchert, C. Di­et­rich, H. Schirmeier, M. Hoff­mann, O. Spinczyk, D. Lohmann, F. R., and P. Rech. The 12th Work­shop on Sil­i­con Er­rors in Logic - Sys­tem Ef­fects, 2016.

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

W. Fuhl, T. San­tini, T. C. Kübler, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the Ninth Bi­en­nial ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA), pages 123–130, 2016.

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Bayesian Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of Fix­a­tions, Sac­cades, and Smooth Pur­suits

T. San­tini, W. Fuhl, T. C. Kübler, and E. Kas­neci. Pro­ceed­ings of the Ninth Bi­en­nial ACM Sym­po­sium on Eye Track­ing Re­search & Ap­pli­ca­tions (ETRA), pages 163–170, 2016.

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Re­li­a­bil­ity Analy­sis of Op­er­at­ing Sys­tems and Soft­ware Stack for Em­bed­ded Sys­tems

T. San­tini, L. Carro, F. R., and P. Rech. IEEE Trans­ac­tions on Nu­clear Sci­ence 63(4): 2225-2232, 2016.

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

W. Fuhl, T. San­tini, D. Geisler, T. C. Kübler, W. Rosen­stiel, and E. Kas­neci. ACM In­ter­na­tional Joint Con­fer­ence on Per­va­sive and Ubiq­ui­tous Com­put­ing: Ad­junct pub­li­ca­tion – PET­MEI 2016, 2016.

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

T. Appel, T. San­tini, and E. Kas­neci. ACM In­ter­na­tional Joint Con­fer­ence on Per­va­sive and Ubiq­ui­tous Com­put­ing: Ad­junct pub­li­ca­tion – PET­MEI 2016, 2016.

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Non-In­tru­sive Prac­ti­tioner Pupil De­tec­tion for Un­mod­i­fied Mi­cro­scope Oc­u­lars

W. Fuhl, T. San­tini, C. Re­ichert, D. Claus, A. Herkom­mer, H. Bah­mani, K. Rifai, S. Wahl, and E. Kas­neci. El­se­vier Com­put­ers in Bi­ol­ogy and Med­i­cine 79: 36-44, 2016.

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

W. Fuhl, D. Geisler, T. San­tini, and E. Kas­neci. ACM In­ter­na­tional Joint Con­fer­ence on Per­va­sive and Ubiq­ui­tous Com­put­ing: Ad­junct pub­li­ca­tion – PET­MEI 2016, 2016.

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2015

Re­li­a­bil­ity Analy­sis of Op­er­at­ing Sys­tems for Em­bed­ded Sys­tem-on-Chips

T. San­tini, L. Carro, F. R., and P. Rech. Pro­ceed­ings of the Con­fer­ence on Ra­di­a­tion and Ef­fects on Com­po­nents and Sys­tems (RADECS), 2015.

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Ex­ploit­ing Cache Con­flicts to Re­duce Ra­di­a­tion Sen­si­tiv­ity of Op­er­at­ing Sys­tems on Em­bed­ded Sys­tems

T. San­tini, P. Rech, L. Carro, and F. R.. Pro­ceed­ings of the In­ter­na­tional Con­fer­ence on Com­pil­ers, Ar­chi­tec­tures and Syn­the­sis of Em­bed­ded Sys­tems (CASES), 2015.

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Eval­u­a­tion of Fail­ure Mask­ing Across the Soft­ware Stack

T. San­tini, P. Rech, A. Sar­tor, U. B., L. Carro, and F. R.. Pro­ceed­ings of the 4th Work­shop on Man­u­fac­turable and De­pend­able Mul­ti­core Ar­chi­tec­tures at Nanoscale (ME­DIAN), 2015.

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Teach­ing

Course Term
Ad­vanced Top­ics in Per­cep­tion En­gi­neer­ing
Ad­vanced Top­ics in Per­cep­tion En­gi­neer­ing
Ba­sis­prak­tikum Tech­nis­che In­for­matik
Ba­sis­prak­tikum Tech­nis­che In­for­matik
Com­pu­ta­tional Mod­els of Vi­sual At­ten­tion
Eye Move­ments and Vi­sual Per­cep­tion
Eye Move­ments and Vi­sual Per­cep­tion
Eye Move­ments and Vi­sual Per­cep­tion
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