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This paper proposes an unsupervised bottom-up saliency detection approach by aggregating complementary background template with refinement. Feature vectors are extracted from each superpixel to cover regional color, contrast and texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Chenxing Xia , Hanling Zhang , Xiuju Gao

Deep neural networks, especially convolutional deep neural networks, are state-of-the-art methods to classify, segment or even generate images, movies, or sounds. However, these methods lack of a good semantic understanding of what happens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jens Bayer , David Münch , Michael Arens

Attention maps are a popular way of explaining the decisions of convolutional networks for image classification. Typically, for each image of interest, a single attention map is produced, which assigns weights to pixels based on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Vivswan Shitole , Li Fuxin , Minsuk Kahng , Prasad Tadepalli , Alan Fern

In recent years, considerable work has been devoted to explaining predictive, deep learning-based models, and in turn how to evaluate explanations. An important class of evaluation methods are ones that are human-centered, which typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yayan Zhao , Mingwei Li , Matthew Berger

Salient object detection is a problem that has been considered in detail and \textcolor{black}{many solutions have been proposed}. In this paper, we argue that work to date has addressed a problem that is relatively ill-posed. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mahmoud Kalash , Md Amirul Islam , Neil D. B. Bruce

We present a novel method for reliably explaining the predictions of neural networks. We consider an explanation reliable if it identifies input features relevant to the model output by considering the input and the neighboring data points.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Dohun Lim , Hyeonseok Lee , Sungchan Kim

Within the set of the many complex factors driving gaze placement, the properities of an image that are associated with fixations under free viewing conditions have been studied extensively. There is a general impression that the field is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Matthias Kümmerer , Thomas Wallis , Matthias Bethge

Image captioning has been recently gaining a lot of attention thanks to the impressive achievements shown by deep captioning architectures, which combine Convolutional Neural Networks to extract image representations, and Recurrent Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Giuseppe Serra , Rita Cucchiara

Saliency methods can aid understanding of deep neural networks. Recent years have witnessed many improvements to saliency methods, as well as new ways for evaluating them. In this paper, we 1) present a novel region-based attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Andrei Kapishnikov , Tolga Bolukbasi , Fernanda Viégas , Michael Terry

Recently, there has been a growing interest in developing saliency methods that provide visual explanations of network predictions. Still, the usability of existing methods is limited to image classification models. To overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Lukas Hoyer , Mauricio Munoz , Prateek Katiyar , Anna Khoreva , Volker Fischer

Omni-directional images have been used in wide range of applications. For the applications, it would be useful to estimate saliency maps representing probability distributions of gazing points with a head-mounted display, to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Takao Yamanaka , Tatsuya Suzuki , Taiki Nobutsune , Chenjunlin Wu

Evaluating generative models for synthetic medical imaging is crucial yet challenging, especially given the high standards of fidelity, anatomical accuracy, and safety required for clinical applications. Standard evaluation of generated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Yash Deo , Yan Jia , Toni Lassila , William A. P. Smith , Tom Lawton , Siyuan Kang , Alejandro F. Frangi , Ibrahim Habli

Understanding the function of individual units in a neural network is an important building block for mechanistic interpretability. This is often done by generating a simple text explanation of the behavior of individual neurons or units.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Tuomas Oikarinen , Ge Yan , Tsui-Wei Weng

Recent discussions on alternative facts, fake news, and post truth politics have motivated research on creating technologies that allow people not only to access information, but also to assess the credibility of the information presented…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Christina Lioma , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Birger Larsen

The correct interpretation of convolutional models is a hard problem for time series data. While saliency methods promise visual validation of predictions for image and language processing, they fall short when applied to time series. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Christoffer Loeffler , Wei-Cheng Lai , Bjoern Eskofier , Dario Zanca , Lukas Schmidt , Christopher Mutschler

Active contour models have achieved prominent success in the area of image segmentation, allowing complex objects to be segmented from the background for further analysis. Existing models can be divided into region-based active contour…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ehtesham Iqbal , Asim Niaz , Asif Aziz Memon , Usman Asim , Kwang Nam Choi

Post-hoc attribution methods aim to explain deep learning predictions by highlighting influential input pixels. However, these explanations are highly non-robust: small, imperceptible input perturbations can drastically alter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Alaa Anani , Tobias Lorenz , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Class activation map (CAM) helps to formulate saliency maps that aid in interpreting the deep neural network's prediction. Gradient-based methods are generally faster than other branches of vision interpretability and independent of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Masud An Nur Islam Fahim , Nazmus Saqib , Shafkat Khan Siam , Ho Yub Jung

There have been remarkable improvements in the semantic labelling task in the recent years. However, the state of the art methods rely on large-scale pixel-level annotations. This paper studies the problem of training a pixel-wise semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Seong Joon Oh , Rodrigo Benenson , Anna Khoreva , Zeynep Akata , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Word-level saliency explanations ("heat maps over words") are often used to communicate feature-attribution in text-based models. Recent studies found that superficial factors such as word length can distort human interpretation of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Alon Jacovi , Hendrik Schuff , Heike Adel , Ngoc Thang Vu , Yoav Goldberg