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Technical University of Munich

Virmarie Maquiling

Research Assistant, PhD Student

Room: 236

Office Hours: nach Vereinbarung

E-Mail: virmarie.maquiling[at]tum[dot]de

 

😎 Career Development

  • 2017 – 2020: B.Sc. in Computer Science at Karl Eberhard University of Tübingen
  • 2020 – 2023: M.Sc. in Computer Science at Karl Eberhard University of Tübingen
  • 2023 – Present: PhD Candidate at Technical University of Munich, Germany

👀 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

📖 Publications

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Maquiling, Virmarie, Sean Anthony Byrne, Marcus Nyström, Enkelejda Kasneci, and Diederick C. Niehorster. "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, pp. 1-7. 2023.
  • 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." arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06129 (2023).
  • 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.

  • Byrne, Sean Anthony, Virmarie Maquiling, Adam Peter Frederick Reynolds, Luca Polonio, Nora Castner, and Enkelejda Kasneci. "Exploring the effects of scanpath feature engineering for supervised image classification models." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, no. ETRA (2023): 1-18.

    For an updated list, check out my Google Scholar page!

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