Anshul Gupta Awarded EPFL PhD Distinction

Anshul was recognized for his thesis titled “Unified and Multimodal Learning for Gaze Prediction in Naturalistic Settings”, supervised by Dr. Jean-Marc Odobez, head of the Perception and Activity Understanding Group at Idiap and Senior Scientist at EPFL. This distinction is awarded to the top 8% of PhD theses within each EPFL doctoral program.

His research investigates human gaze as a key signal for understanding attention, intention, and social interaction. The thesis advances computer vision and multimodal methods for modeling gaze behavior from both first- and third-person perspectives. Beyond spatial localization, he introduces models, datasets, and evaluation protocols designed to capture the semantic and social aspects of gaze. These contributions are applied in real-world contexts, including the analysis of children’s gaze behavior, an area where gaze patterns play an essential role in language development and can indicate neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism.

Throughout his doctoral studies, Anshul made significant contributions to the field of gaze estimation, publishing in leading international venues such as ICCV, CVPR, and NeurIPS, and earning best paper awards.

Idiap extends its congratulations to Anshul Gupta for this important achievement.

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EPFL article:
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/2025-edee-thesis-awards-distinctions-2/