EyetrackPrep: an automatic tool to pre-process eye-tracking data (fixation, blinks, saccades, micro-saccade, pursuit, pupillometry)

[mszinte]

Title

EyetrackPrep: an automatic tool to pre-process eye-tracking data (fixation, blinks, saccades, micro-saccade, pursuit, pupillometry)

Leaders

Martin Szinte @mszinte (github) @mszinte (mattermost)

Collaborators

Anna Montagnini
Guillaume Masson

Brainhack Global 2021 Event

Brainhack Marseille

Project Description

Description:
This project aims at providing to the eye-tracking research community a standardized software allowing the automatic computation and quality-check of eye-tracking data. This includes any records of eye position metrics such as fixation, eye movements (saccades, microsaccades, pursuit), blinks, and pupillometry.

EyeTrackPrep is meant in the future to be used by all researchers using eye-tracking data. It aims at simplifying and standardizing this domain to improve research reproducibility as well as the share of collected data.

Eye-tracking community lack such a tool even if a need for it is clear. Although this project might take time until a functional software is produced, it will modify for long term the way cognitive neuroscientists work and generate open science of high quality data akin what happened with the development of BIDS-apps from the neuroimaging community.

Link to project repository/sources

https://github.com/mszinte/eyetrackprep.git

Goals for Brainhack Global

Together with colleagues, we already thought of a few directions for EyeTrackPrep. The Brainhack will consist of discussions about the tool, its goals, what it should and what it should not include. Moreover, if we have more time we could code the modeling of eye movement metrics (e.g. saccade detection from eye-traking position time series) as well as some of the visualization for data quality check.

Good first issues

Agree on what such app should do (e.g. saccade, smooth pursuit analysis...)

Communication channels

https://mattermost.brainhack.org/brainhack/channels/eyetrackprep

Skills

Non-coding skills: knowledge of eyetracking data or interest in it
Coding skills: Python basics

Onboarding documentation

No response

What will participants learn?

Eyetracking analysis: saccade and smooth pursuit analysis
BIDS usage: using of tools to share and re-use your eyetracking datasets.

Data to use

No response

Number of collaborators

more

Credit to collaborators

Thérèse Collins
Guillaume Masson
Anna Montagnini
Martin Rolfs
Martin Szinte
Tomas Knapen

Image

Type

data_management, method_development

Development status

0_concept_no_content

Topic

data_visualisation, other

Tools

BIDS, Jupyter, other

Programming language

Python

Modalities

eye_tracking

Git skills

0_no_git_skills, 1_commit_push, 2_branches_PRs

Anything else?

No response

Things to do after the project is submitted.

• Add a comment saying: Hi @Brainhack-Global/project-monitors: my project is ready!
• Twitter-sized summary of your project pitch.

[Remi-Gau]

@mszinte
As the project was already reviewed by the local event organizers there is no need for further review on our side. Will proceed with publication on the website. But if there are further changes you want to make ping us @brainhackorg/project-monitors

[mszinte]

Thanks, no further change for the moment.
Best,