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In this paper, we present a new feature selection method that is suitable for both unsupervised and supervised problems. We build upon the recently proposed Infinite Feature Selection (IFS) method where feature subsets of all sizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Sadegh Eskandari , Emre Akbas

Streaming feature selection techniques have become essential in processing real-time data streams, as they facilitate the identification of the most relevant attributes from continuously updating information. Despite their performance,…

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Salient object detection has been attracting a lot of interest, and recently various heuristic computational models have been designed. In this paper, we formulate saliency map computation as a regression problem. Our method, which is based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Huaizu Jiang , Zejian Yuan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yihong Gong , Nanning Zheng , Jingdong Wang

Feature selection is an important tool to deal with high dimensional data. In unsupervised case, many popular algorithms aim at maintaining the structure of the original data. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-06 Xiaoyun Li , Chengxi Wu , Ping Li

Feature selection is crucial for fuzzy decision systems (FDSs), as it identifies informative features and eliminates rule redundancy, thereby enhancing predictive performance and interpretability. Most existing methods either fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Suping Xu , Chuyi Dai , Ye Liu , Lin Shang , Xibei Yang , Witold Pedrycz

In this paper, we propose several novel deep learning methods for object saliency detection based on the powerful convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify an input image based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Hengyue Pan , Bo Wang , Hui Jiang

Beneficial from Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNs), saliency detection methods have achieved promising results. However, it is still challenging to learn effective features for detecting salient objects in complicated scenarios, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Sina Mohammadi , Mehrdad Noori , Ali Bahri , Sina Ghofrani Majelan , Mohammad Havaei

Data-driven saliency detection has attracted strong interest as a result of applying convolutional neural networks to the detection of eye fixations. Although a number of imagebased salient object and fixation detection models have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Meijun Sun , Ziqi Zhou , QinGhua Hu , Zheng Wang , Jianmin Jiang

When applied to high-dimensional datasets, feature selection algorithms might still leave dozens of irrelevant variables in the dataset. Therefore, even after feature selection has been applied, classifiers must be prepared to the presence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas , Hirotaka Takano , Junichi Murata

Feature selection is playing an increasingly significant role with respect to many computer vision applications spanning from object recognition to visual object tracking. However, most of the recent solutions in feature selection are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Giorgio Roffo , Simone Melzi , Umberto Castellani , Alessandro Vinciarelli

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have delivered superior performance in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel deep fully convolutional network model for accurate salient object detection. The key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Pingping Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Hongyu Wang , Baocai Yin

Feature selection is a powerful dimension reduction technique which selects a subset of relevant features for model construction. Numerous feature selection methods have been proposed, but most of them fail under the high-dimensional and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Can Chen , Scott T. Weiss , Yang-Yu Liu

Feature selection (FS) is a key research area in the machine learning and data mining fields, removing irrelevant and redundant features usually helps to reduce the effort required to process a dataset while maintaining or even improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Raul-Jose Palma-Mendoza , Daniel Rodriguez , Luis de-Marcos

There have been several attempts to develop Feature Selection (FS) algorithms capable of identifying features that are relevant in a dataset. Although in certain applications the FS algorithms can be seen to be successful, they have similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Andrew Starkey , Uduak Idio Akpan , Omaimah AL Hosni , Yaseen Pullissery

In this paper, we propose a fast deep learning method for object saliency detection using convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify the input images based on the pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-02 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

An important problem in bioinformatics is the inference of gene regulatory networks (GRN) from temporal expression profiles. In general, the main limitations faced by GRN inference methods is the small number of samples with huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Fabrício Martins Lopes , David C. Martins-Jr , Junior Barrera , Roberto M. Cesar-Jr

Salient object detection, which aims to identify and locate the most salient pixels or regions in images, has been attracting more and more interest due to its various real-world applications. However, this vision task is quite challenging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Pingping Zhang , Wei Liu , Huchuan Lu , Chunhua Shen

Visual saliency detection aims at identifying the most visually distinctive parts in an image, and serves as a pre-processing step for a variety of computer vision and image processing tasks. To this end, the saliency detection procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Xuanyang Xi , Yongkang Luo , Fengfu Li , Peng Wang , Hong Qiao

Traditional model-free feature selection methods treat each feature independently while disregarding the interrelationships among features, which leads to relatively poor performance compared with the model-aware methods. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jianming Lv , Sijun Xia , Depin Liang , Wei Chen