Hello there!

Recently I’ve decided to participate in OpenEDS 2020 challenge.

The organizers of the competition offer two tracks:

1. Predicting future gaze locations based on the previously estimated gaze vectors
2. Predicting future gaze locations based on the previously estimated gaze vectors while additionally leveraging spatio-temporal information encoded in sequence of previously recorded eye-images

Each of which comes with its own dataset available by request to download from Dropbox. So how could we manage downloading datasets from Dropbox?

Headless Dropbox

The first path that I chose was to install Dropbox application on my Ubuntu server. Following this I successfully installed headless Dropbox and passed authorization.

It was possible to start daemon with ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd command but after that the reasonable question appeared “How does one check the current status of syncing?”.

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