Task Decoding based on Eye Movements using Synthetic Data Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11547v1
• Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:28:21 GMT
• Title: Task Decoding based on Eye Movements using Synthetic Data Augmentation
• Authors: Shanmuka Sadhu, Arca Baran, Preeti Pandey, Ayush Kumar,
• Abstract summary: We show that augmenting more eye movement data combined with additional synthetically generated improves classification accuracy even with traditional machine learning algorithms.<n>Our proposed framework outperforms all the available studies on this dataset because of the use of additional synthetic datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Machine learning has been extensively used in various applications related to eye-tracking research. Understanding eye movement is one of the most significant subsets of eye-tracking research that reveals the scanning pattern of an individual. Researchers have thoroughly analyzed eye movement data to understand various eye-tracking applications, such as attention mechanisms, navigational behavior, task understanding, etc. The outcome of traditional machine learning algorithms used for decoding tasks based on eye movement data has received a mixed reaction to Yarbus' claim that it is possible to decode the observer's task from their eye movements. In this paper, to support the hypothesis by Yarbus, we are decoding tasks categories while generating synthetic data samples using well-known Synthetic Data Generators CTGAN and its variations such as CopulaGAN and Gretel AI Synthetic Data generators on available data from an in-person user study. Our results show that augmenting more eye movement data combined with additional synthetically generated improves classification accuracy even with traditional machine learning algorithms. We see a significant improvement in task decoding accuracy from 28.1% using Random Forest to 82% using Inception Time when five times more data is added in addition to the 320 real eye movement dataset sample. Our proposed framework outperforms all the available studies on this dataset because of the use of additional synthetic datasets. We validated our claim with various algorithms and combinations of real and synthetic data to show how decoding accuracy increases with the increase in the augmentation of generated data to real data.

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