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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

Substantial research has been done in saliency modeling to develop intelligent machines that can perceive and interpret their surroundings. But existing models treat videos as merely image sequences excluding any audio information, unable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-27 Maryam Qamar Butt , Anis Ur Rahman

Visual attention plays a critical role when our visual system executes active visual tasks by interacting with the physical scene. However, how to encode the visual object relationship in the psychological world of our brain deserves to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kai-Fu Yang , Yong-Jie Li

Reusable embeddings of user behaviour have shown significant performance improvements for the personalised saliency prediction task. However, prior works require explicit user characteristics and preferences as input, which are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Florian Strohm , Mihai Bâce , Andreas Bulling

In recent years, predicting driver's focus of attention has been a very active area of research in the autonomous driving community. Unfortunately, existing state-of-the-art techniques achieve this by relying only on human gaze information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Anwesan Pal , Sayan Mondal , Henrik I. Christensen

Complex networks in natural, social, and technological systems generically exhibit an abundance of rich information. Extracting meaningful structural features from data is one of the most challenging tasks in network theory. Many methods…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-04 Daniel Grady , Christian Thiemann , Dirk Brockmann

This paper proposes a novel saliency detection method by combining region-level saliency estimation and pixel-level saliency prediction with CNNs (denoted as CRPSD). For pixel-level saliency prediction, a fully convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-19 Youbao Tang , Xiangqian Wu

Visual saliency detection tries to mimic human vision psychology which concentrates on sparse, important areas in natural image. Saliency prediction research has been traditionally based on low level features such as contrast, edge, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Avisek Lahiri , Sourya Roy , Anirban Santara , Pabitra Mitra , Prabir Kumar Biswas

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained prominence for their ability to process graph-structured data across various domains. However, interpreting GNN decisions remains a significant challenge, leading to the adoption of saliency maps for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Shuichi Nishino , Tomohiro Shiraishi , Teruyuki Katsuoka , Ichiro Takeuchi

Deep learning-based methods have become the de facto standard for industrial defect detection. However, their data-hungry nature and inherent "black-box" characteristics often lead to performance bottlenecks and limited trustworthiness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hang-Cheng Dong , Guodong Liu , Dong Ye , Bingguo Liu

Saliency methods are widely used to interpret neural network predictions, but different variants of saliency methods often disagree even on the interpretations of the same prediction made by the same model. In these cases, how do we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shuoyang Ding , Philipp Koehn

High-quality saliency maps are essential in several machine learning application areas including explainable AI and weakly supervised object detection and segmentation. Many techniques have been developed to generate better saliency using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Osman Tursun , Simon Denman , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes

Interpretability is a critical factor in applying complex deep learning models to advance the understanding of brain disorders in neuroimaging studies. To interpret the decision process of a trained classifier, existing techniques typically…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-29 Zixuan Liu , Ehsan Adeli , Kilian M. Pohl , Qingyu Zhao

Though deep learning techniques have made great progress in salient object detection recently, the predicted saliency maps still suffer from incomplete predictions due to the internal complexity of objects and inaccurate boundaries caused…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Runmin Wu , Mengyang Feng , Wenlong Guan , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Errui Ding

Conventional saliency prediction models typically learn a deterministic mapping from an image to its saliency map, and thus fail to explain the subjective nature of human attention. In this paper, to model the uncertainty of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jing Zhang , Jianwen Xie , Zilong Zheng , Nick Barnes

We describe an explainable AI saliency map method for use with deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) that is much more efficient than popular fine-resolution gradient methods. It is also quantitatively similar or better in accuracy. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 T. Nathan Mundhenk , Barry Y. Chen , Gerald Friedland

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer great machine learning performance over a range of applications, but their operation is hard to interpret, even for experts. Various explanation algorithms have been proposed to address this issue,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ahmed Alqaraawi , Martin Schuessler , Philipp Weiß , Enrico Costanza , Nadia Berthouze

As an emerging vision platform, a drone can look from many abnormal viewpoints which brings many new challenges into the classic vision task of video saliency prediction. To investigate these challenges, this paper proposes a large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Kui Fu , Jia Li , Yu Zhang , Hongze Shen , Yonghong Tian

The high cost of pixel-level annotations makes it appealing to train saliency detection models with weak supervision. However, a single weak supervision source usually does not contain enough information to train a well-performing model. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Yu Zeng , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu , Lihe Zhang , Mingyang Qian , Yizhou Yu

We propose a novel iterative method to adapt a a graph to d-dimensional image data. The method drives the nodes of the graph towards image features. The adaptation process naturally lends itself to a measure of feature saliency which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Alberto Gomez , Veronika A. Zimmer , Bishesh Khanal , Nicolas Toussaint , Julia A. Schnabel