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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

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at text summarization, a task that requires models to select content based on its importance. However, the exact notion of salience that LLMs have internalized remains unclear. To bridge this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jan Trienes , Jörg Schlötterer , Junyi Jessy Li , Christin Seifert

To bridge the gap between humans and machines in image understanding and describing, we need further insight into how people describe a perceived scene. In this paper, we study the agreement between bottom-up saliency-based visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Hamed R. Tavakoli , Rakshith Shetty , Ali Borji , Jorma Laaksonen

Selective attention is an essential mechanism to filter sensory input and to select only its most important components, allowing the capacity-limited cognitive structures of the brain to process them in detail. The saliency map model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Camille Simon Chane , Ernst Niebur , Ryad Benosman , Sio-Hoi Ieng

Neural network visualization techniques mark image locations by their relevancy to the network's classification. Existing methods are effective in highlighting the regions that affect the resulting classification the most. However, as we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Shir Gur , Ameen Ali , Lior Wolf

This paper proposes a deep learning model to efficiently detect salient regions in videos. It addresses two important issues: (1) deep video saliency model training with the absence of sufficiently large and pixel-wise annotated video data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Wenguan Wang , Jianbing Shen , Ling Shao

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains, yet their decision-making processes remain opaque. Although many explanation methods are dedicated to bringing the obscurity of DNNs to light, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kanglong Fan , Yunqiao Yang , Chen Ma

A popular approach to unveiling the black box of neural NLP models is to leverage saliency methods, which assign scalar importance scores to each input component. A common practice for evaluating whether an interpretability method is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Josip Jukić , Martin Tutek , Jan Šnajder

Interpretation and improvement of deep neural networks relies on better understanding of their underlying mechanisms. In particular, gradients of classes or concepts with respect to the input features (e.g., pixels in images) are often used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Lennart Brocki , Neo Christopher Chung

Data size is the bottleneck for developing deep saliency models, because collecting eye-movement data is very time consuming and expensive. Most of current studies on human attention and saliency modeling have used high quality stereotype…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Zhaohui Che , Ali Borji , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min , Guodong Guo , Patrick Le Callet

Attention-based models are successful when trained on large amounts of data. In this paper, we demonstrate that even in the low-resource scenario, attention can be learned effectively. To this end, we start with discrete human-annotated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Yujia Bao , Shiyu Chang , Mo Yu , Regina Barzilay

Knowledge tracing aims to model students' past answer sequences to track the change in their knowledge acquisition during exercise activities and to predict their future learning performance. Most existing approaches ignore the fact that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuqi Yue , Xiaoqing Sun , Weidong Ji , Zengxiang Yin , Chenghong Sun

Objects, in the real world, rarely occur in isolation and exhibit typical arrangements governed by their independent utility, and their expected interaction with humans and other objects in the context. For example, a chair is expected near…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Sharat Agarwal

We propose to employ a saliency-driven hierarchical neural image compression network for a machine-to-machine communication scenario following the compress-then-analyze paradigm. By that, different areas of the image are coded at different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Kristian Fischer , Fabian Brand , Christian Blum , André Kaup

Deep neural networks are a key component of behavior prediction and motion generation for self-driving cars. One of their main drawbacks is a lack of transparency: they should provide easy to interpret rationales for what triggers certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Jinkyu Kim , Mayank Bansal

Leveraging human perception into training of convolutional neural networks (CNN) has boosted generalization capabilities of such models in open-set recognition tasks. One of the active research questions is where (in the model architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Colton R. Crum , Adam Czajka

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

Sometimes it is not enough for a DNN to produce an outcome. For example, in applications such as healthcare, users need to understand the rationale of the decisions. Therefore, it is imperative to develop algorithms to learn models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yinpeng Dong , Fan Bao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Identifying the salience (i.e. importance) of discourse units is an important task in language understanding. While events play important roles in text documents, little research exists on analyzing their saliency status. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Zhengzhong Liu , Chenyan Xiong , Teruko Mitamura , Eduard Hovy

The paper presents a technique to improve human detection in still images using deep learning. Our novel method, ViS-HuD, computes visual saliency map from the image. Then the input image is multiplied by the map and product is fed to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Vandit Gajjar , Yash Khandhediya , Ayesha Gurnani , Viraj Mavani , Mehul S. Raval