3 papers
cs.MM2026
Looking Into the Past: Eye Movements Characterize Elements of Autobiographical Recall in Interviews with Holocaust Survivors
Emily Zhou, Marcus Ma, Kleanthis Avramidis +2
Eye movement and memory retrieval are deeply and bidirectionally intertwined, however existing literature is generally confined to controlled lab settings. We investigate the relat…
cs.MM2026
Smiling Regulates Emotion During Traumatic Recollection
Marcus Ma, Emily Zhou, Leonard Ludwig +7
We study when, where, and why 978 Holocaust survivors smile in video testimonies. We create an automatic smile detection model from facial features with an F1 of 85% and annotate d…
cs.CV2026
Encoding Emotion Through Self-Supervised Eye Movement Reconstruction
Marcus Ma, Jordan Prescott, Emily Zhou +4
The relationship between emotional expression and eye movement is well-documented, with literature establishing gaze patterns are reliable indicators of emotion. However, most stud…