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We conduct large-scale studies on `human attention' in Visual Question Answering (VQA) to understand where humans choose to look to answer questions about images. We design and test multiple game-inspired novel attention-annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Abhishek Das , Harsh Agrawal , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Resolving bugs in the maintenance phase of software is a complicated task. Bug assignment is one of the main tasks for resolving bugs. Some Bugs cannot be fixed properly without making design decisions and have to be assigned to designers,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Reza Sepahvand , Reza Akbari , Behnaz Jamasb , Sattar Hashemi , Omid Boushehrian

We present VQA-MHUG - a novel 49-participant dataset of multimodal human gaze on both images and questions during visual question answering (VQA) collected using a high-speed eye tracker. We use our dataset to analyze the similarity between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ekta Sood , Fabian Kögel , Florian Strohm , Prajit Dhar , Andreas Bulling

Vision-language models (VLMs) typically encode substantially more visual tokens than text tokens, resulting in significant token redundancy. Pruning uninformative visual tokens is therefore crucial for improving computational efficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Kai Zhao , Wubang Yuan , Yuchen Lin , Liting Ruan , Xiaofeng Lu , Deng-Ping Fan , Ming-Ming Cheng , Dan Zeng

Visual Search is referred to the task of finding a target object among a set of distracting objects in a visual display. In this paper, based on an independent analysis of the COCO-Search18 dataset, we investigate how the performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Manoosh Samiei , James J. Clark

Governments and businesses increasingly rely on data analytics and machine learning (ML) for improving their competitive edge in areas such as consumer satisfaction, threat intelligence, decision making, and product efficiency. However, by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Rock Stevens , Octavian Suciu , Andrew Ruef , Sanghyun Hong , Michael Hicks , Tudor Dumitraş

Bugs are essential in software engineering; many research studies in the past decades have been proposed to detect, localize, and repair bugs in software systems. Effectiveness evaluation of such techniques requires complex bugs, i.e.,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ali Reza Ibrahimzada , Yang Chen , Ryan Rong , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand

Managing large numbers of incoming bug reports and finding the most critical issues in hardware development is time consuming, but crucial in order to reduce development costs. In this paper, we present an approach to predict the time to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thi Thu Hang Do , Markus Dobler , Niklas Kühl

We introduce intra-class memorability, where certain images within the same class are more memorable than others despite shared category characteristics. To investigate what features make one object instance more memorable than others, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jie Jing , Yongjian Huang , Serena J. -W. Wang , Shuangpeng Han , Lucia Schiatti , Yen-Ling Kuo , Qing Lin , Mengmi Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been widely used for code generation. Due to the complexity and opacity of LLMs, little is known about how these models generate code. We made the first attempt to bridge this knowledge gap by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bonan Kou , Shengmai Chen , Zhijie Wang , Lei Ma , Tianyi Zhang

Despite its massive popularity as a programming language, especially in novel domains like data science programs, there is comparatively little research about fault localization that targets Python. Even though it is plausible that several…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Mohammad Rezaalipour , Carlo A. Furia

The main stretch in the paper is buffer overflow anomaly occurring in major source codes, designed in various programming language. It describes the various as to how to improve your code and increase its strength to withstand security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-17 Manas Gaur

As a direct cause of software defects, human error is the key to understanding and identifying defects. We propose a new code inspection method: targeted code inspection based on human error mechanisms of software engineers. Based on the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Fuqun Huang , Henrique Madeira

How to search for bugs in 1,000 programs using a pre-existing fuzzer and a standard PC? We consider this problem and show that a well-designed strategy that determines which programs to fuzz and for how long can greatly impact the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ivica Nikolic , Racchit Jain

While neural networks with attention mechanisms have achieved superior performance on many natural language processing tasks, it remains unclear to which extent learned attention resembles human visual attention. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ekta Sood , Simon Tannert , Diego Frassinelli , Andreas Bulling , Ngoc Thang Vu

Fuzz testing has been used to find bugs in programs since the 1990s, but despite decades of dedicated research, there is still no consensus on which fuzzing techniques work best. One reason for this is the paucity of ground truth: bugs in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Joshua Bundt , Andrew Fasano , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , William Robertson , Tim Leek

This paper studies the problem of measuring and predicting how memorable an image is to pattern recognition machines, as a path to explore machine intelligence. Firstly, we propose a self-supervised machine memory quantification pipeline,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junlin Han , Huangying Zhan , Jie Hong , Pengfei Fang , Hongdong Li , Lars Petersson , Ian Reid

Inspired by the fact that human brains can emphasize discriminative parts of the input and suppress irrelevant ones, substantial local mechanisms have been designed to boost the development of computer vision. They can not only focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Qiangchang Wang , Yilong Yin

The human brain provides a range of functions such as expressing emotions, controlling the rate of breathing, etc., and its study has attracted the interest of scientists for many years. As machine learning models become more sophisticated,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Felix G. Hamza-Lup , Adytia Suri , Ionut E. Iacob , Ioana R. Goldbach , Lateef Rasheed , Paul N. Borza

Deficits in working memory, which includes both the ability to learn and to retain information short-term, are a hallmark of many cognitive disorders. Our study analyzes data from a neuroscience experiment on animal subjects, where…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-23 Maria Laura Battagliola , Laura J. Benoit , Sarah Canetta , Shizhe Zhang , R. Todd Ogden