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We present a novel approach for saliency prediction in images, leveraging parallel decoding in transformers to learn saliency solely from fixation maps. Models typically rely on continuous saliency maps, to overcome the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Yasser Abdelaziz Dahou Djilali , Kevin McGuiness , Noel O'Connor

Visual affordances identify regions in an image with potential interactions, offering a novel paradigm for scene understanding. Recognizing affordances allows autonomous robots to act more naturally, could enhance human-robot interactions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Mur-Labadia , Ruben Martinez-Cantina , Jose J. Guerrero

There is a recent surge of interest in using attention as explanation of model predictions, with mixed evidence on whether attention can be used as such. While attention conveniently gives us one weight per input token and is easily…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jasmijn Bastings , Katja Filippova

The volume of User Generated Content (UGC) has increased in recent years. The challenge with this type of content is assessing its quality. So far, the state-of-the-art metrics are not exhibiting a very high correlation with perceptual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xinyi Wang , Angeliki Katsenou , David Bull

In contrast to comparing faces via single exemplars, matching sets of face images increases robustness and discrimination performance. Recent image set matching approaches typically measure similarities between subspaces or manifolds, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Conrad Sanderson , Mehrtash T. Harandi , Yongkang Wong , Brian C. Lovell

In-context learning with attention enables large neural networks to make context-specific predictions by selectively focusing on relevant examples. Here, we adapt this idea to supervised learning procedures such as lasso regression and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-11 Erin Craig , Robert Tibshirani

Instance segmentation can detect where the objects are in an image, but hard to understand the relationship between them. We pay attention to a typical relationship, relative saliency. A closely related task, salient object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Hao Fang , Daoxin Zhang , Yi Zhang , Minghao Chen , Jiawei Li , Yao Hu , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

Encoder transformer models compress information from all tokens in a sequence into a single [CLS] token to represent global context. This approach risks diluting fine-grained or hierarchical features, leading to information loss in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Asif Shahriar , Rifat Shahriyar , M Saifur Rahman

In this work, we propose an efficient and effective approach for unconstrained salient object detection in images using deep convolutional neural networks. Instead of generating thousands of candidate bounding boxes and refining them, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Mahyar Najibi , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

The aim of this work is to establish how accurately a recent semantic-based foveal active perception model is able to complete visual tasks that are regularly performed by humans, namely, scene exploration and visual search. This model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 João Luzio , Alexandre Bernardino , Plinio Moreno

The opacity of deep learning models constrains their debugging and improvement. Augmenting deep models with saliency-based strategies, such as attention, has been claimed to help get a better understanding of the decision-making process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Matteo Rizzo , Cristina Conati , Daesik Jang , Hui Hu

Object detection is an important task in remote sensing image analysis. To reduce the computational complexity of redundant information and improve the efficiency of image processing, visual saliency models have been widely applied in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Zhou Huang , Huai-Xin Chen , Tao Zhou , Yun-Zhi Yang , Chang-Yin Wang , Bi-Yuan Liu

This paper presents a novel deep architecture for saliency prediction. Current state of the art models for saliency prediction employ Fully Convolutional networks that perform a non-linear combination of features extracted from the last…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Serra , Rita Cucchiara

Saliency methods are a common class of machine learning interpretability techniques that calculate how important each input feature is to a model's output. We find that, with the rapid pace of development, users struggle to stay informed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Angie Boggust , Harini Suresh , Hendrik Strobelt , John V. Guttag , Arvind Satyanarayan

The performance of convolutional neural networks has continued to improve over the last decade. At the same time, as model complexity grows, it becomes increasingly more difficult to explain model decisions. Such explanations may be of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Colton Crum , Patrick Tinsley , Aidan Boyd , Jacob Piland , Christopher Sweet , Timothy Kelley , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

In this study, we present a novel clustering-based collaborative filtering (CF) method for recommender systems. Clustering-based CF methods can effectively deal with data sparsity and scalability problems. However, most of them are applied…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Munlika Rattaphun , Wen-Chieh Fang , Chih-Yi Chiu

In this work we develop a fast saliency detection method that can be applied to any differentiable image classifier. We train a masking model to manipulate the scores of the classifier by masking salient parts of the input image. Our model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-23 Piotr Dabkowski , Yarin Gal

In saliency detection, every pixel needs contextual information to make saliency prediction. Previous models usually incorporate contexts holistically. However, for each pixel, usually only part of its context region is useful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Nian Liu , Junwei Han , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Visual saliency prediction using transformers - Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have significantly advanced computational modelling for saliency prediction. However, accurately simulating the mechanisms of visual attention in the human…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Jianxun Lou , Hanhe Lin , David Marshall , Dietmar Saupe , Hantao Liu

In the area of human fixation prediction, dozens of computational saliency models are proposed to reveal certain saliency characteristics under different assumptions and definitions. As a result, saliency model benchmarking often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Changqun Xia , Jia Li , Jinming Su , Ali Borji