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Eye Movement Classification with Temporal Convolutional Networks

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Abstract

Recently, deep learning approaches have been proposed to detect eye movements such as fixations, saccades, and smooth pursuits from eye tracking data. These are end-to-end methods that have shown to surpass traditional ones, requiring no ad hoc parameters. In this work we propose the use of temporal convolutional networks (TCNs) for automated eye movement classification and investigate the influence of feature space, scale, and context window sizes on the classification results. We evaluated the performance of TCNs against a state-of-the-art 1D-CNN-BLSTM model using GazeCom, a public available dataset. Our results show that TCNs can outperform the 1D-CNN-BLSTM, achieving an F-score of 94.2% for fixations, 89.9% for saccades, and 73.7% for smooth pursuits on sample level, and 89.6%, 94.3%, and 60.2% on event level. We also state the advantages of TCNs over sequential networks for this problem, and how these scores can be further improved by feature space extension.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges, 2021, Proceedings
EditorsAlberto Del Bimbo, Rita Cucchiara, Stan Sclaroff, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Tao Mei, Marco Bertini, Hugo Jair Escalante, Roberto Vezzani
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages390-404
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030687953
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2021 - Virtual, Online, Italy
Duration: 10 Jan 2021 → 15 Jan 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume12663 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Workshops, ICPR 2021
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVirtual, Online
Period10/01/21 → 15/01/21

Keywords

  • Eye movement classification
  • Feature selection
  • Temporal convolutional networks

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