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Recently, many methods to interpret and visualize deep neural network predictions have been proposed and significant progress has been made. However, a more class-discriminative and visually pleasing explanation is required. Thus, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Dasom Seo , Kanghan Oh , Il-Seok Oh

Visual Saliency is the capability of vision system to select distinctive parts of scene and reduce the amount of visual data that need to be processed. The presentpaper introduces (1) a novel approach to detect salient regions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Sikha O K , Sachin Kumar S , K P Soman

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

The field of eXplainable artificial intelligence (XAI) has produced a plethora of methods (e.g., saliency-maps) to gain insight into artificial intelligence (AI) models, and has exploded with the rise of deep learning (DL). However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Marvin Pafla , Kate Larson , Mark Hancock

Transparency and explainability in image classification are essential for establishing trust in machine learning models and detecting biases and errors. State-of-the-art explainability methods generate saliency maps to show where a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Matteo Bianchi , Antonio De Santis , Andrea Tocchetti , Marco Brambilla

Visual saliency is a fundamental problem in both cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision. In this CVPR 2015 paper, we discover that a high-quality visual saliency model can be trained with multiscale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Explainable artificial intelligence is increasingly employed to understand the decision-making process of deep learning models and create trustworthiness in their adoption. However, the explainability of Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Lorenzo Cirillo , Claudio Schiavella , Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini

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

The black-box nature of the deep networks makes the explanation for "why" they make certain predictions extremely challenging. Saliency maps are one of the most widely-used local explanation tools to alleviate this problem. One of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Saeed Khorram , Tyler Lawson , Fuxin Li

A basic task in explainable AI (XAI) is to identify the most important features behind a prediction made by a black box function $f$. The insertion and deletion tests of Petsiuk et al. (2018) can be used to judge the quality of algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Naofumi Hama , Masayoshi Mase , Art B. Owen

3D point-cloud recognition with PointNet and its variants has received remarkable progress. A missing ingredient, however, is the ability to automatically evaluate point-wise importance w.r.t.\! classification performance, which is usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Tianhang Zheng , Changyou Chen , Junsong Yuan , Bo Li , Kui Ren

This paper proposes a new gradient-based XAI method called Guided AbsoluteGrad for saliency map explanations. We utilize both positive and negative gradient magnitudes and employ gradient variance to distinguish the important areas for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Jun Huang , Yan Liu

Visual saliency models have enjoyed a big leap in performance in recent years, thanks to advances in deep learning and large scale annotated data. Despite enormous effort and huge breakthroughs, however, models still fall short in reaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Ali Borji

Learning computational models for visual attention (saliency estimation) is an effort to inch machines/robots closer to human visual cognitive abilities. Data-driven efforts have dominated the landscape since the introduction of deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Navyasri Reddy , Samyak Jain , Pradeep Yarlagadda , Vineet Gandhi

Dyadic regression models, which output real-valued predictions for pairs of entities, are fundamental in many domains (e.g. obtaining user-product ratings in Recommender Systems) and promising and under exploration in others (e.g. tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Jorge Paz-Ruza , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas , Brais Cancela , Carlos Eiras-Franco

Saliency maps can explain a neural model's predictions by identifying important input features. They are difficult to interpret for laypeople, especially for instances with many features. In order to make them more accessible, we formalize…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Nils Feldhus , Leonhard Hennig , Maximilian Dustin Nasert , Christopher Ebert , Robert Schwarzenberg , Sebastian Möller

Saliency methods are frequently used to explain Deep Neural Network-based models. Adebayo et al.'s work on evaluating saliency methods for classification models illustrate certain explanation methods fail the model and data randomization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Deepan Chakravarthi Padmanabhan , Paul G. Plöger , Octavio Arriaga , Matias Valdenegro-Toro

When deploying deep neural networks on robots or other physical systems, the learned model should reliably quantify predictive uncertainty. A reliable uncertainty allows downstream modules to reason about the safety of its actions. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Simon Kristoffersson Lind , Ziliang Xiong , Per-Erik Forssén , Volker Krüger

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

In this study, we propose a novel method to measure bottom-up saliency maps of natural images. In order to eliminate the influence of top-down signals, backward masking is used to make stimuli (natural images) subjectively invisible to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-30 Cheng Chen , Xilin Zhang , Yizhou Wang , Fang Fang