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DOVES: A database of visual eye movements
I. van der Linde, U. Rajashekhar, A.C. Bovik and L.K. Cormack
Spatial Vision
Abstract
DOVES, a database of visual eye movements, is a set of eye movements collected
from 29 human observers as they viewed 101 natural calibrated images. Recorded using a highprecision
dual-Purkinje eye tracker, the database consists of around 30 000 fixation points, and is
believed to be the first large-scale database of eye movements to be made available to the vision
research community. The database, along with MATLAB functions for its use, may be downloaded
freely from http://live.ece.utexas.edu/research/doves, and used without restriction for educational and
research purposes, providing that this paper is cited in any published work. This paper documents
the acquisition procedure, summarises common eye movement statistics, and highlights numerous
research topics for which DOVES may be used.
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