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Title: Eye Movement Biometrics Using a New Dataset Collected in Virtual Reality
This paper introduces a novel eye movement dataset collected in virtual reality (VR) that contains both 2D and 3D eye movement data from over 400 subjects. We establish that this dataset is suitable for biometric studies by evaluating it with both statistical and machine learning–based approaches. For comparison, we also include results from an existing, similarly constructed dataset.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1714623
PAR ID:
10285745
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1 to 3
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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