Heena Patel

About

I am a Staff Computer Vision Research Engineer at Akeso Eyecare, Beijing, China, leading research on eye tracking and gaze estimation systems. I hold a Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from SVNIT Surat, India. My research spans deep learning, computer vision, medical imaging, and quantum-inspired machine learning, with a focus on developing efficient gaze estimation architectures. I have authored 29 publications and hold patents in novel gaze estimation technologies.

Employment

• Akeso Eyecare Staff Computer Vision Research Engineer
  2023 - Present

Education

• Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat PhD
  2017 - 2022

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (29)

• LightGazeNet: A Lightweight GNN-based Architecture for Gaze Estimation
  IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, 2026 2026
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• LightGazeNet: A Lightweight GNN-based Architecture for Gaze Estimation
  2026 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2026 DOI: 10.1109/wacv61042.2026.00362
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• AttentiveGaze: an uncertainty-aware multimodal feature fusion for robust gaze estimation
  Multimedia Tools and Applications 2026 DOI: 10.1007/s11042-026-21909-z
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• Comparative Analysis of Generative Adversarial Network-Based Single-Image Super-Resolution Approaches
  Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2022 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6737-5_26
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• Generative Adversarial Network-Based Improved Progressive Approach for Image Super-Resolution: ImProSRGAN
  Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 2022 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6737-5_24
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• Compact and progressive network for enhanced single image super-resolution—ComPrESRNet
  The Visual Computer 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s00371-021-02193-4
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• Depthwise Convolution For Compact Object Detector In nighttime Images
  2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) 2022 DOI: 10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00053
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• Unsupervised Denoising for Super-Resolution (UDSR) of Real-World Images
  IEEE Access 2022 DOI: 10.1109/access.2022.3223101
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• NTIRE 2021 NonHomogeneous Dehazing Challenge Report
  2021 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) 2021 DOI: 10.1109/cvprw53098.2021.00074
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• Unsupervised Single Image Super-Resolution Using Cycle Generative Adversarial Network
  Communications in Computer and Information Science 2021 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71711-7_30
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