I’m please to announce the availability of the FAU Salient image database. It consist of 1789 images organized into 14 categories. Each image is designed to have one or more salient objects in it. The photos were taken in a variety of locations (both indoors and outdoors) around the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University. Examples of salient object categories include stop signs, warning signs, tennis balls, basketballs.

FAU Salient image database (303MB .zip)
FAU Salient image database (303MB .tar.gz)

If you use this database in your work please cite the following article:

Marques, O.; Mayron, L.M.; Borba, G.B. & Gamba, H.R., “An attention-driven model for grouping similar images with image retrieval applications“, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Image Perception, 2007, Article ID 43450, 17 pages.

@ARTICLE{marques:eurasip2007,
author = {Marques, Oge and Mayron, Liam M. and Borba, Gustavo B. and Gamba, Humberto R.},
title = {An Attention-Driven Model for Grouping Similar Images with Image Retrieval Applications},
journal = {EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing},
year = {2007},
volume = {2007},
pages = {Article ID 43450, 17 pages},
note = {doi:10.1155/2007/43450}
}