Overview of Eye tracking Datasets

Datasets of images or videos annotated with eye tracking data constitute important ground truth for studies on saliency models, which have applications in quality assessment and other areas. Over two dozen such databases are now available in the public domain; they are presented in this paper.

1. INTRODUCTION

Attention and saliency play important roles in visual perception. Consequently, a number of saliency-based quality assessment algorithms have been proposed in recent years, see e.g. [16],[30]. While comparisons and reviews of saliency models are quite common [4], [21], information on eye tracking databases is harder to come by. There are over two dozen databases with eye tracking data for both images and video in the public domain. We review the content and purpose of each database and discuss their commonalities and differences.