Privatization of Synthetic Gaze: Attenuating State Signatures in Diffusion-Generated Eye Movements

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Autori principali: Hasan, Kamrul, Komogortsev, Oleg V.
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author Hasan, Kamrul
Komogortsev, Oleg V.
author_facet Hasan, Kamrul
Komogortsev, Oleg V.
contents The recent success of deep learning (DL) has enabled the generation of high-quality synthetic gaze data. However, such data also raises privacy concerns because gaze sequences can encode subjects' internal states, like fatigue, emotional load, or stress. Ideally, synthetic gaze should preserve the signal quality of real recordings and remove or attenuate state-related, privacy-sensitive attributes. Many recent DL-based generative models focus on replicating real gaze trajectories and do not explicitly consider subjective reports or the privatization of internal states. However, in this work, we consider a recent diffusion-based gaze synthesis approach and examine correlations between synthetic gaze features and subjective reports (e.g., fatigue and related self-reported states). Our result shows that these correlations are trivial, which suggests the generative approach suppresses state-related features. Moreover, synthetic gaze preserves necessary signal characteristics similar to those of real data, which supports its use for privacy-preserving gaze-based applications.
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spellingShingle Privatization of Synthetic Gaze: Attenuating State Signatures in Diffusion-Generated Eye Movements
Hasan, Kamrul
Komogortsev, Oleg V.
Human-Computer Interaction
The recent success of deep learning (DL) has enabled the generation of high-quality synthetic gaze data. However, such data also raises privacy concerns because gaze sequences can encode subjects' internal states, like fatigue, emotional load, or stress. Ideally, synthetic gaze should preserve the signal quality of real recordings and remove or attenuate state-related, privacy-sensitive attributes. Many recent DL-based generative models focus on replicating real gaze trajectories and do not explicitly consider subjective reports or the privatization of internal states. However, in this work, we consider a recent diffusion-based gaze synthesis approach and examine correlations between synthetic gaze features and subjective reports (e.g., fatigue and related self-reported states). Our result shows that these correlations are trivial, which suggests the generative approach suppresses state-related features. Moreover, synthetic gaze preserves necessary signal characteristics similar to those of real data, which supports its use for privacy-preserving gaze-based applications.
title Privatization of Synthetic Gaze: Attenuating State Signatures in Diffusion-Generated Eye Movements
topic Human-Computer Interaction
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21057