Virmarie Maquiling

Research Assistant, PhD Student
Room: 257
Office Hours: nach Vereinbarung
Tel.: +49 89 289 24343
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
- Machine Learning
- Extended Reality
- Neural-level Gaze Guidance
- Synthetic Data and Domain Generalization
Publications
- 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, Li Zhaoping, Enkelejda Kasneci. "Imperceptible Gaze Guidance Through Ocularity in Virtual Reality". arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09204
- 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". arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08926
- 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!