Salient object detection: A survey

A Borji, MM Cheng, Q Hou, H Jiang, J Li - Computational visual media, 2019 - Springer
Detecting and segmenting salient objects from natural scenes, often referred to as salient
object detection, has attracted great interest in computer vision. While many models have …

Predicting human eye fixations via an lstm-based saliency attentive model

M Cornia, L Baraldi, G Serra… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data-driven saliency has recently gained a lot of attention thanks to the use of convolutional
neural networks for predicting gaze fixations. In this paper, we go beyond standard …

Saliency in VR: How do people explore virtual environments?

V Sitzmann, A Serrano, A Pavel… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding how people explore immersive virtual environments is crucial for many
applications, such as designing virtual reality (VR) content, developing new compression …

Salgan: Visual saliency prediction with generative adversarial networks

J Pan, CC Ferrer, K McGuinness, NE O'Connor… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
We introduce SalGAN, a deep convolutional neural network for visual saliency prediction
trained with adversarial examples. The first stage of the network consists of a generator …

Salicon: Reducing the semantic gap in saliency prediction by adapting deep neural networks

X Huang, C Shen, X Boix… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2015 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Saliency in Context (SALICON) is an ongoing effort that aims at understanding and
predicting visual attention. Conventional saliency models typically rely on low-level image …

What do different evaluation metrics tell us about saliency models?

Z Bylinskii, T Judd, A Oliva, A Torralba… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
How best to evaluate a saliency model's ability to predict where humans look in images is an
open research question. The choice of evaluation metric depends on how saliency is …

Learning unsupervised video object segmentation through visual attention

W Wang, H Song, S Zhao, J Shen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This paper conducts a systematic study on the role of visual attention in Unsupervised Video
Object Segmentation (UVOS) tasks. By elaborately annotating three popular video …

Shallow and deep convolutional networks for saliency prediction

J Pan, E Sayrol, X Giro-i-Nieto… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The prediction of salient areas in images has been traditionally addressed with hand-crafted
features based on neuroscience principles. This paper, however, addresses the problem …

Deepfix: A fully convolutional neural network for predicting human eye fixations

SSS Kruthiventi, K Ayush… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding and predicting the human visual attention mechanism is an active area of
research in the fields of neuroscience and computer vision. In this paper, we propose …

Understanding low-and high-level contributions to fixation prediction

M Kummerer, TSA Wallis, LA Gatys… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Understanding where people look in images is an important problem in computer vision.
Despite significant research, it remains unclear to what extent human fixations can be …