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ArticleJournal of imaging2021

Variational Autoencoder for Image-Based Augmentation of Eye-Tracking Data.

Mahmoud Elbattah, Colm Loughnane, Jean-Luc Guérin, Romuald Carette, Federica Cilia, Gilles Dequen

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Article in Journal of imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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Mahmoud ElbattahLaboratoire Modélisation, Information, Systèmes (MIS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80080 Amiens, France.
Colm LoughnaneFaculty of Science and Engineering, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX Limerick, Ireland.
Jean-Luc GuérinLaboratoire Modélisation, Information, Systèmes (MIS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80080 Amiens, France.
Romuald CaretteLaboratoire Modélisation, Information, Systèmes (MIS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80080 Amiens, France.
Federica CiliaLaboratoire CRP-CPO, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80000 Amiens, France.
Gilles DequenLaboratoire Modélisation, Information, Systèmes (MIS), Université de Picardie Jules Verne, 80080 Amiens, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7497-1182

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Abstract

Over the past decade, deep learning has achieved unprecedented successes in a diversity of application domains, given large-scale datasets. However, particular domains, such as healthcare, inherently suffer from data paucity and imbalance. Moreover, datasets could be largely inaccessible due to privacy concerns, or lack of data-sharing incentives. Such challenges have attached significance to the application of generative modeling and data augmentation in that domain. In this context, this study explores a machine learning-based approach for generating synthetic eye-tracking data. We explore a novel application of variational autoencoders (VAEs) in this regard. More specifically, a VAE model is trained to generate an image-based representation of the eye-tracking output, so-called scanpaths. Overall, our results validate that the VAE model could generate a plausible output from a limited dataset. Finally, it is empirically demonstrated that such approach could be employed as a mechanism for data augmentation to improve the performance in classification tasks.

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data augmentationdeep learningeye-trackingvariational autoencoder

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PMID34460679
PMCPMC8321343

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