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Conventional saliency maps highlight input features to which neural network predictions are highly sensitive. We take a different approach to saliency, in which we identify and analyze the network parameters, rather than inputs, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Roman Levin , Manli Shu , Eitan Borgnia , Furong Huang , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Gradient-based saliency methods are widely used to interpret deep neural networks, yet they often produce noisy and unstable explanations that poorly align with semantically meaningful input features. We argue that a fundamental cause of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ali Karkehabadi , Jamshid Hassanpour , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

We introduce a saliency-based distortion layer for convolutional neural networks that helps to improve the spatial sampling of input data for a given task. Our differentiable layer can be added as a preprocessing block to existing task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Adrià Recasens , Petr Kellnhofer , Simon Stent , Wojciech Matusik , Antonio Torralba

Saliency is the perceptual capacity of our visual system to focus our attention (i.e. gaze) on relevant objects. Neural networks for saliency estimation require ground truth saliency maps for training which are usually achieved via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Carola Figueroa-Flores , David Berga , Joost van der Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

Deep neural networks have achieved great success in many real-world applications, yet it remains unclear and difficult to explain their decision-making process to an end-user. In this paper, we address the explainable AI problem for deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Bhavan Vasu , Chengjiang Long

Numerous efforts have been made to design different low level saliency cues for the RGBD saliency detection, such as color or depth contrast features, background and color compactness priors. However, how these saliency cues interact with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Liangqiong Qu , Shengfeng He , Jiawei Zhang , Jiandong Tian , Yandong Tang , Qingxiong Yang

The realm of Weakly Supervised Instance Segmentation (WSIS) under box supervision has garnered substantial attention, showcasing remarkable advancements in recent years. However, the limitations of box supervision become apparent in its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xinyi Yu , Ling Yan , Pengtao Jiang , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Lin Yuanbo Wu , Linlin Ou

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

Interpreting the decisions of deep learning models has been actively studied since the explosion of deep neural networks. One of the most convincing interpretation approaches is salience-based visual interpretation, such as Grad-CAM, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yiming Lei , Zilong Li , Yangyang Li , Junping Zhang , Hongming Shan

Most of the saliency methods are evaluated on their ability to generate saliency maps, and not on their functionality in a complete vision pipeline, like for instance, image classification. In the current paper, we propose an approach which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Carola Figueroa-Flores , Bogdan Raducanu , David Berga , Joost van de Weijer

The widespread use of black-box AI models has raised the need for algorithms and methods that explain the decisions made by these models. In recent years, the AI research community is increasingly interested in models' explainability since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Savvas Karatsiolis , Andreas Kamilaris

In this paper, we propose the first framework (UCNet) to employ uncertainty for RGB-D saliency detection by learning from the data labeling process. Existing RGB-D saliency detection methods treat the saliency detection task as a point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Jing Zhang , Deng-Ping Fan , Yuchao Dai , Saeed Anwar , Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Tong Zhang , Nick Barnes

In recent years, several advances have been observed in Deep Learning with surprising results. Models in this area have been increasingly used in numerous applications, including those sensitive to human life, which require clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Daniel da Silva Costa , Pedro Nuno de Souza Moura , Adriana C. F. Alvim

For more than a decade, deep learning models have been dominating in various 2D imaging tasks. Their application is now extending to 3D imaging, with 3D Convolutional Neural Networks (3D CNNs) being able to process LIDAR, MRI, and CT scans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Mariusz Wiśniewski , Loris Giulivi , Giacomo Boracchi

Salient object detection has increasingly become a popular topic in cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision and artificial intelligence research. In this paper, we propose integrating \textit{semantic priors} into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Tam V. Nguyen , Luoqi Liu

Saliency maps are a popular approach for explaining classifications of (convolutional) neural networks. However, it remains an open question as to how best to evaluate salience maps, with three families of evaluation methods commonly being…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Felix Kares , Timo Speith , Hanwei Zhang , Markus Langer

Thanks to the ability of providing an immersive and interactive experience, the uptake of 360 degree image content has been rapidly growing in consumer and industrial applications. Compared to planar 2D images, saliency prediction for 360…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Pan Gao , Xinlang Chen , Rong Quan , Wei Xiang

Image saliency detection is crucial in understanding human gaze patterns from visual stimuli. The escalating demand for research in image saliency detection is driven by the growing necessity to incorporate such techniques into various…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Zhanxuan Mei , Yun-Cheng Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Recent results suggest that state-of-the-art saliency models perform far from optimal in predicting fixations. This lack in performance has been attributed to an inability to model the influence of high-level image features such as objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Matthias Kümmerer , Lucas Theis , Matthias Bethge

The prediction of salient areas in images has been traditionally addressed with hand-crafted features based on neuroscience principles. This paper, however, addresses the problem with a completely data-driven approach by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Junting Pan , Kevin McGuinness , Elisa Sayrol , Noel O'Connor , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto