Mohammadreza Razvan

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LGJul 23, 2025
Persistent Patterns in Eye Movements: A Topological Approach to Emotion Recognition

Arsha Niksa, Hooman Zare, Ali Shahrabi et al.

We present a topological pipeline for automated multiclass emotion recognition from eye-tracking data. Delay embeddings of gaze trajectories are analyzed using persistent homology. From the resulting persistence diagrams, we extract shape-based features such as mean persistence, maximum persistence, and entropy. A random forest classifier trained on these features achieves up to $75.6\%$ accuracy on four emotion classes, which are the quadrants the Circumplex Model of Affect. The results demonstrate that persistence diagram geometry effectively encodes discriminative gaze dynamics, suggesting a promising topological approach for affective computing and human behavior analysis.