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Impact of Preprocessing on Classification Results of Eye-Tracking-Data
Landes, Jennifer
, Klettke, Meike
and Köppl, Sonja
(2025)
Impact of Preprocessing on Classification Results of Eye-Tracking-Data.
Datenbank-Spektrum.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 25 Nov 2025 05:50
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.78199
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Eye-Tracking data provides valuable insights into human behavior, yet its high variability to noise require robust preprocessing to ensure meaningful analysis. This study introduces and evaluates a systematic preprocessing pipeline tailored to enhance machine learning classifier performance in the context of Eye-Tracking data, on a dataset on academic cheating detection. Unlike prior work ...
Eye-Tracking data provides valuable insights into human behavior, yet its high variability to noise require robust preprocessing to ensure meaningful analysis. This study introduces and evaluates a systematic preprocessing pipeline tailored to enhance machine learning classifier performance in the context of Eye-Tracking data, on a dataset on academic cheating detection. Unlike prior work focusing on isolated preprocessing steps, our approach explores 193 configurations by combining techniques for missing value imputation, outlier handling, normalization, smoothing, feature limiting, and filtering. A Random Forest classifier is used consistently across all configurations due to its robustness and prior success in similar domains. Our results demonstrate that well-designed preprocessing pipelines can substantially improve classification accuracy. Additionally, a feature importance analysis reveals that static spatial and camera-based metrics outperform traditional gaze dynamics in predictive power. This research aims to create a reusable framework for Eye-Tracking data.
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Landes, Jennifer
, Klettke, Meike
and Köppl, Sonja
(2025)
Impact of Preprocessing on Classification Results of Eye-Tracking-Data.
Datenbank-Spektrum.
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Landes, Jennifer
, Klettke, Meike
and Köppl, Sonja
(2025)
Impact of Preprocessing on Classification Results of Eye-Tracking-Data.
In: Datenbanksysteme für Business, Technologie und Web (BTW 2025) -Workshop Data Engineering for Data Science (DE4DS), March 3-7, 2025, Bamberg, Germany.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Datenbank-Spektrum | ||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||
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| Open Access Type: | DEAL (Springer) | ||||
| Date | 20 November 2025 | ||||
| Institutions | Informatics and Data Science > General computer science > Data Engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Meike Klettke) Informatics and Data Science > General computer science | ||||
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| Keywords | Data Preprocessing · Random Forest · Classification · Eye-Tracking | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Partially | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-781994 | ||||
| Item ID | 78199 |
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