Rapidly deploying on-device eye tracking by distilling visual foundation models

ArXi:2604.02509v1 Announce Type: new Eye tracking (ET) plays a critical role in augmented and virtual reality applications. However, rapidly deploying high-accuracy, on-device gaze estimation for new products remains challenging because hardware configurations (e.g., camera placement, camera pose, and illumination) often change across device generations. Visual foundation models (VFMs) are a promising direction for rapid