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Being able to explain the prediction to clinical end-users is a necessity to leverage the power of AI models for clinical decision support. For medical images, saliency maps are the most common form of explanation. The maps highlight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Weina Jin , Xiaoxiao Li , Ghassan Hamarneh

Saliency methods are a popular class of feature attribution explanation methods that aim to capture a model's predictive reasoning by identifying "important" pixels in an input image. However, the development and adoption of these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Joon Sik Kim , Gregory Plumb , Ameet Talwalkar

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

Saliency maps have become a widely used method to make deep learning models more interpretable by providing post-hoc explanations of classifiers through identification of the most pertinent areas of the input medical image. They are…

Deep learning dominates image classification tasks, yet understanding how models arrive at predictions remains a challenge. Much research focuses on local explanations of individual predictions, such as saliency maps, which visualise the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 James Hinns , David Martens

The use of deep learning in computer vision tasks such as image classification has led to a rapid increase in the performance of such systems. Due to this substantial increment in the utility of these systems, the use of artificial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Vinay Jogani , Joy Purohit , Ishaan Shivhare , Seema C Shrawne

In this letter, an effective image saliency detection method is proposed by constructing some novel spaces to model the background and redefine the distance of the salient patches away from the background. Concretely, given the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Tong Zhao , Lin Li , Xinghao Ding , Yue Huang , Delu Zeng

The widespread adoption of black-box models in Artificial Intelligence has enhanced the need for explanation methods to reveal how these obscure models reach specific decisions. Retrieving explanations is fundamental to unveil possible…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Francesco Bodria , Fosca Giannotti , Riccardo Guidotti , Francesca Naretto , Dino Pedreschi , Salvatore Rinzivillo

Saliency methods can make deep neural network predictions more interpretable by identifying a set of critical features in an input sample, such as pixels that contribute most strongly to a prediction made by an image classifier.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yang Lu , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing , William Stafford Noble

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

This paper investigates the role of saliency to improve the classification accuracy of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for the case when scarce training data is available. Our approach consists in adding a saliency branch to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Carola Figueroa Flores , Abel Gonzalez-García , Joost van de Weijer , Bogdan Raducanu

The different families of saliency methods, either based on contrastive signals, closed-form formulas mixing gradients with activations or on perturbation masks, all focus on which parts of an image are responsible for the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Ruth Fong , Xu Ji , Hakan Bilen , Andrea Vedaldi

Input perturbation methods occlude parts of an input to a function and measure the change in the function's output. Recently, input perturbation methods have been applied to generate and evaluate saliency maps from convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Lukas Brunke , Prateek Agrawal , Nikhil George

Saliency detection is an active topic in the multimedia field. Most previous works on saliency detection focus on 2D images. However, these methods are not robust against complex scenes which contain multiple objects or complex backgrounds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Chunbiao Zhu , Ge Li

Attribution methods shed light on the explainability of data-driven approaches such as deep learning models by uncovering the most influential features in a to-be-explained decision. While determining feature attributions via gradients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Yi Cai , Gerhard Wunder

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

Saliency methods are widely used to visualize which input features are deemed relevant to a model's prediction. However, their visual plausibility can obscure critical limitations. In this work, we propose a diagnostic test for class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Dane Williamson , Yangfeng Ji , Matthew Dwyer

This work proposes a saliency-based attribution framework to evaluate and compare 10 state-of-the-art explainability methods for deep learning models in astronomy, focusing on the classification of radio galaxy images. While previous work…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 M. T. Atemkeng , C. Chuma , S. Zaza , C. D. Nunhokee , O. M. Smirnov

Local explanation frameworks aim to rationalize particular decisions made by a black-box prediction model. Existing techniques are often restricted to a specific type of predictor or based on input saliency, which may be undesirably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Brandon Carter , Jonas Mueller , Siddhartha Jain , David Gifford

Existing saliency-guided training approaches improve model generalization by incorporating a loss term that compares the model's class activation map (CAM) for a sample's true-class ({\it i.e.}, correct-label class) against a human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jacob Piland , Chris Sweet , Adam Czajka