title: Trajectory prediction of saccadic eye movements using a compressed exponential model.
abstract: Gaze-contingent display paradigms play an important role in vision research. The time delay due to data transmission from eye tracker to monitor may lead to a misalignment between the gaze direction and image manipulation during eye movements, and therefore compromise the contingency. We present a method to reduce this misalignment by using a compressed exponential function to model the trajectories of saccadic eye movements. Our algorithm was evaluated using experimental data from 1,212 saccades ranging from 3° to 30°, which were collected with an EyeLink 1000 and a Dual-Purkinje Image (DPI) eye tracker. The model fits eye displacement with a high agreement (R² > 0.96). When assuming a 10-millisecond time delay, prediction of 2D saccade trajectories using our model could reduce the misalignment by 30% to 60% with the EyeLink tracker and 20% to 40% with the DPI tracker for saccades larger than 8°. Because a certain number of samples are required for model fitting, the prediction did not offer improvement for most small saccades and the early stages of large saccades. Evaluation was also performed for a simulated 100-Hz gaze-contingent display using the prerecorded saccade data. With prediction, the percentage of misalignment larger than 2° dropped from 45% to 20% for EyeLink and 42% to 26% for DPI data. These results suggest that the saccade-prediction algorithm may help create more accurate gaze-contingent displays.
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Telecommunication Engineering, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China. hanp@scnu.edu.cn
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Daniel R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Saunders
authors.forename: Russell L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: compressed exponential function; eye movements; gaze prediction; gaze tracking; gaze-contingent display; saccade
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