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This work explores how human judgement about salient regions of an image can be introduced into deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) training. Traditionally, training of DCNNs is purely data-driven. This often results in learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Aidan Boyd , Patrick Tinsley , Kevin W. Bowyer , Adam Czajka

In this work, we propose a 3D fully convolutional architecture for video saliency prediction that employs hierarchical supervision on intermediate maps (referred to as conspicuity maps) generated using features extracted at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Giovanni Bellitto , Federica Proietto Salanitri , Simone Palazzo , Francesco Rundo , Daniela Giordano , Concetto Spampinato

Deep neural networks, especially convolutional deep neural networks, are state-of-the-art methods to classify, segment or even generate images, movies, or sounds. However, these methods lack of a good semantic understanding of what happens…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Jens Bayer , David Münch , Michael Arens

Traditional saliency models usually adopt hand-crafted image features and human-designed mechanisms to calculate local or global contrast. In this paper, we propose a novel computational saliency model, i.e., deep spatial contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Nian Liu , Junwei Han

Gradient-based interpretations often require an anchor point of comparison to avoid saturation in computing feature importance. We show that current baselines defined using static functions--constant mapping, averaging or blurring--inject…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ching Lam Choi , Alexandre Duplessis , Serge Belongie

In this work, we investigate methods to reduce the noise in deep saliency maps coming from convolutional downsampling. Those methods make the investigated models more interpretable for gradient-based saliency maps, computed in hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Rudolf Herdt , Maximilian Schmidt , Daniel Otero Baguer , Peter Maaß

Recent studies have examined attention dynamics in large vision-language models (LVLMs) to detect hallucinations. However, existing approaches remain limited in reliably distinguishing hallucinated from factually grounded outputs, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yuanchao Zhu , Chaochen Gu , Xiaosong Yuan , Qiyan Zhao , Jiawei Cao , Feilong Tang , Sinan Fan , Yaomin Shen , Chen Shen , Hao Tang

Saliency map detection, as a method for detecting important regions of an image, is used in many applications such as image classification and recognition. We propose that context detection could have an essential role in image saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Mahdi Ahmadi , Mohsen Hajabdollahi , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

The opacity of deep learning models constrains their debugging and improvement. Augmenting deep models with saliency-based strategies, such as attention, has been claimed to help get a better understanding of the decision-making process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Matteo Rizzo , Cristina Conati , Daesik Jang , Hui Hu

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

Getting pain intensity from face images is an important problem in autonomous nursing systems. However, due to the limitation in data sources and the subjectiveness in pain intensity values, it is hard to adopt modern deep neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Conghui Li , Zhaocheng Zhu , Yuming Zhao

Fully convolutional networks (FCN) has significantly improved the performance of many pixel-labeling tasks, such as semantic segmentation and depth estimation. However, it still remains non-trivial to thoroughly utilize the multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Yunzhi Zhuge , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Input gradients have a pivotal role in a variety of applications, including adversarial attack algorithms for evaluating model robustness, explainable AI techniques for generating Saliency Maps, and counterfactual explanations.However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Mathieu Serrurier , Franck Mamalet , Thomas Fel , Louis Béthune , Thibaut Boissin

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

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 convolutional neural network (CNN) based salient object detection methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance and outperform those unsupervised methods with a wide margin. In this paper, we propose to integrate deep and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Jing Zhang , Bo Li , Yuchao Dai , Fatih Porikli , Mingyi He

We examined whether embedding human attention knowledge into saliency-based explainable AI (XAI) methods for computer vision models could enhance their plausibility and faithfulness. We first developed new gradient-based XAI methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Guoyang Liu , Jindi Zhang , Antoni B. Chan , Janet H. Hsiao

Saliency methods attempt to explain deep neural networks by highlighting the most salient features of a sample. Some widely used methods are based on a theoretical framework called Deep Taylor Decomposition (DTD), which formalizes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Leon Sixt , Tim Landgraf

The emergence of explainability methods has enabled a better comprehension of how deep neural networks operate through concepts that are easily understood and implemented by the end user. While most explainability methods have been designed…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-03-17 Fernanda L. Ribeiro , Steffen Bollmann , Ross Cunnington , Alexander M. Puckett

Researchers have proposed various methods for visually interpreting the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) via saliency maps, which include Class-Activation-Map (CAM) based approaches as a leading family. However, in terms of the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Xiwei Xuan , Ziquan Deng , Hsuan-Tien Lin , Zhaodan Kong , Kwan-Liu Ma