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Landes, Jennifer ; Klettke, Meike ; Köppl, Sonja

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


Abstract

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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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitleDatenbank-Spektrum
Publisher:Springer
Open Access Type:DEAL (Springer)
Date20 November 2025
InstitutionsInformatics and Data Science > General computer science > Data Engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Meike Klettke)
Informatics and Data Science > General computer science
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10.1007/s13222-025-00518-4DOI
KeywordsData Preprocessing · Random Forest · Classification · Eye-Tracking
Dewey Decimal Classification000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgPartially
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-781994
Item ID78199

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