Method and apparatus for evaluating results of gaze detection

The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for evaluating results of gaze detection, wherein these results are present or are obtained in the form of information which defines, for each of a multiplicity of successive times, a viewing direction detected at this time and a focal point identified thereby in a scene image assigned to this time. For this purpose, the invention provides for the following steps to be carried out: -a temporal change in the viewing direction and/or the focal point is evaluated in order to identify different viewing events which differ from one another by different speeds of an eye movement, wherein saccades and fixations and/or pursuit movements are detected as different types of viewing events and the identified viewing events are classified according to the type thereof, -a period of time spanned by the times is divided into intervals in such a manner that an interval corresponding to a duration of the particular viewing event is assigned to each of the identified viewing events, wherein at least some of these intervals each contain a sequence of a plurality of times, -precisely one of the times or a true subset of the times is selected in each case from each of the intervals assigned to a fixation or a pursuit movement, -and, for each of these selected times, the focal point identified in the scene image assigned to the particular time is mapped to a position corresponding to this focal point in a reference image.