Virmarie Maquiling

👀 Research Interests

• Eye tracking research and development
• Machine learning / Deep Learning
• Vision language models / Foundation models  
• XR Systems
• Pre-attentive visual processing
• Neural-level gaze guidance
• Synthetic data and domain generalization
• Gaze tokenization

📖 Publications

• Virmarie Maquiling, Yasmeen Abdrabou, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2026. As Far as Eye See: Vergence-Pupil Coupling in Near-Far Depth Switching. In Proceedings of the 2026 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 112, 1–6. doi.org/10.1145/3797246.3806212
• Suleyman Ozdel*, Virmarie Maquiling*, Kadir Burak Buldu, Yasmeen Abdrabou, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2026. VIVA Stimuli: A Web-Based Platform for Eye Tracking Stimuli. In Proceedings of the 2026 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 109, 1–7. doi.org/10.1145/3797246.3805692
• Virmarie Maquiling, Yasmeen Abdrabou, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2026. Night Eyes: A Reproducible Framework for Constellation-Based Corneal Reflection Matching. In Proceedings of the 2026 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 67, 1–6. doi.org/10.1145/3797246.3806793
• Maquiling, Virmarie, Li Zhaoping, and Enkelejda Kasneci. "Imperceptible Gaze Guidance Through Ocularity in Virtual Reality." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9.3 (2025): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3725839
• Maquiling, Virmarie, Sean Anthony Byrne, Diederick C. Niehorster, Marco Carminati, and Enkelejda Kasneci. "Zero-shot pupil segmentation with SAM 2: A case study of over 14 million images." Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 8, no. 2 (2025): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3729409
• Niehorster, Diederick C., Virmarie Maquiling, Sean Byrne, Enkelejda Kasneci, and Marcus Nyström. "Exploring promptable foundation models for high-resolution video eye tracking in the lab." In Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, pp. 1-8. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3723118
• Abdrabou, Yasmeen, Suleyman Ozdel, Virmarie Maquiling, Efe Bozkir, and Enkelejda Kasneci. "From gaze to data: Privacy and societal challenges of using eye-tracking data to inform genai models." In Proceedings of the 2025 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA). 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715669.3726788
• Byrne, Sean Anthony, Virmarie Maquiling, Marcus Nyström, Enkelejda Kasneci, and Diederick C. Niehorster. "LEyes: A lightweight framework for deep learning-based eye tracking using synthetic eye images." Behavior Research Methods 57, no. 5 (2025): 129. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02645-y
• Maquiling, Virmarie, Sean Anthony Byrne, Diederick C. Niehorster, Marcus Nyström, and Enkelejda Kasneci. "Zero-shot segmentation of eye features using the segment anything model (sam)." Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques 7.2 (2024): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3654704
• Maquiling, Virmarie, Sean Anthony Byrne, Marcus Nyström, Enkelejda Kasneci, and Diederick C. Niehorster. 2023. V-ir-Net: A Novel Neural Network for Pupil and Corneal Reflection Detection trained on Simulated Light Distributions. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (MobileHCI '23 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 23, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3608690
• Byrne, Sean Anthony, Marcus Nyström, Virmarie Maquiling, Enkelejda Kasneci, and Diederick C. Niehorster. "Precise localization of corneal reflections in eye images using deep learning trained on synthetic data." Behavior Research Methods (2023): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02297-w 

• Sean Anthony Byrne, Virmarie Maquiling, Adam Peter Frederick Reynolds, Luca Polonio, Nora Castner, and Enkelejda Kasneci. 2023. Exploring the Effects of Scanpath Feature Engineering for Supervised Image Classification Models. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, ETRA, Article 161 (May 2023), 18 pages. doi.org/10.1145/3591130

   

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💕 Cool stuff

2026

• 1-4.6.2026 Three papers accepted and presented at ETRA 2026 in Marakkech, Morroco.
• 19.3.2026 Held the Eye Tracking & Educational Technology workshop at the GEBF Young Scientists' Congress in Munich.
• 25.-26.2.2026 Attended the VIVA General Assembly in Munich.

2025

• 15.-18.12.2025 Invited poster as SIGGRAPH ASIA 2025 in Hong Kong.
• 30.9.-1.10.2025 Attended the VIVA General Assembly in Pamplona, Spain.
• 24.-28.8.2025 Presented Symposium Talk: Towards imperceptible gaze guidance in extended reality at ECVP2025 in Mainz.
• 26.5.-30.5.2025 Four papers accepted at ETRA 2026 in Tokyo, Japan. Won full paper honorable mention!
• 15.5.2025 Cube glasses training at Robert Bosch GmbH in Renningen
• 11.-12.2.2025 Attended the VIVA General Assembly in Lund, Sweden.
• 10.-13.2.2025 Lab visit and collaboration with Prof. Dr. Marcus Nyström and Dr. Diederick C. Niehorster at the Lund University Humanities Lab in Lund, Sweden.

2024

• 1.-2.10.2024 Lab visit and collaboration with Prof. Dr. Li Zhaoping at the Max Planck Insititute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen.
• 16.9.2024 Held the “Eye Tracking for Researchers” workshop at WiPSCE 2024 in Munich.
• 4.-5.9.2024 Attended the Retreat: Frontiers of AI and HCI at Akademiezentrum TUM Raitenhaschlach.
• 1.-2.7.2024 Attended the VIVA General Assembly in Renningen.
• 4.-7.6.2024 Paper accepted and presented at ETRA 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 25.4.2024 Held the workshop Kunst mit ChatGPT? Entdecke das kreative Potenzial von Generativer KI at the Girl's Day 2024 at TUM Think Tank.  

2023

• 27.-28.9.2023 Paper accepted and presented at MobileHCI 2023 in Athens, Greece.
• 7.-9.6.2023 Attended “A Practical Introduction to Eye Tracking” course in Lund, University.
• 27.4.2023 Held a workshop at the Girl's Day 2023 at TUM Think Tank.