An Analysis of Entropy-Based Eye Movement Events Detection

Autor: Katarzyna Harezlak, Pawel Kasprowski, Dariusz R Augustyn
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Entropy, Vol 21, Iss 2, p 107 (2019)
Entropy
Volume 21
Issue 2
ISSN: 1099-4300
Popis: Analysis of eye movement has attracted a lot of attention recently in terms of exploring areas of people&rsquo
s interest, cognitive ability, and skills. The basis for eye movement usage in these applications is the detection of its main components&mdash
namely, fixations and saccades, which facilitate understanding of the spatiotemporal processing of a visual scene. In the presented research, a novel approach for the detection of eye movement events is proposed, based on the concept of approximate entropy. By using the multiresolution time-domain scheme, a structure entitled the Multilevel Entropy Map was developed for this purpose. The dataset was collected during an experiment utilizing the &ldquo
jumping point&rdquo
paradigm. Eye positions were registered with a 1000 Hz sampling rate. For event detection, the knn classifier was applied. The best classification efficiency in recognizing the saccadic period ranged from 83% to 94%, depending on the sample size used. These promising outcomes suggest that the proposed solution may be used as a potential method for describing eye movement dynamics.
Databáze: OpenAIRE