We tackle the problem of predicting saliency maps for videos of dynamic scenes. We note that the accuracy of the maps reconstructed from the gaze data of a fixed number of observers varies with the frame, as it depends on the content of the scene. This issue is particularly pressing when a limited number of observers are available. In such cases, directly minimizing the discrepancy between the predicted and measured saliency maps, as traditional deep-learning methods do, results in overfitting to the noisy data. We propose a noise-aware training (NAT) paradigm that quantifies and accounts for the uncertainty arising from frame-specific gaze data inaccuracy. We show that NAT is especially advantageous when limited training data is available, with experiments across different models, loss functions, and datasets. We also introduce a video game-based saliency dataset, with rich temporal semantics, and multiple gaze attractors per frame. The dataset and source code are available at https://github.com/NVlabs/NAT-saliency.
Visual saliency modeling for images and videos is treated as two independent tasks in recent computer vision literature. While image saliency modeling is a well-studied problem and progress on benchmarks like SALICON and MIT300 is slowing, video saliency models have shown rapid gains on the recent DHF1K benchmark. Here, we take a step back and ask: Can image and video saliency modeling be approached via a unified model, with mutual benefit? We identify different sources of domain shift between image and video saliency data and between different video saliency datasets as a key challenge for ef…
Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University（都柏林城市大学Insight数据分析中心）；Institut National des Télécommunications et des TIC（国家电信与信息通信技术学院）
The spherical domain representation of 360 video/image presents many challenges related to the storage, processing, transmission and rendering of omnidirectional videos (ODV). Models of human visual attention can be used so that only a single viewport is rendered at a time, which is important when developing systems that allow users to explore ODV with head mounted displays (HMD). Accordingly, researchers have proposed various saliency models for 360 video/images. This paper proposes ATSal, a novel attention based (head-eye) saliency model for 360\degree videos. The attention mechanism explici…
Temporal Saliency-Guided Distillation: A Scalable Framework for Distilling Video Datasets
Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School（清华大学深圳国际研究生院）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）
In this paper, we address the problem of quantifying reliability of computational saliency for videos, which can be used to improve saliency-based video processing and enable more reliable performance and risk assessment of such processing. Our approach is twofold. First, we explore spatial correlations in both saliency map and eye-fixation map. Then, we learn spatiotemporal correlations that define a reliable saliency map. We first study spatiotemporal eye-fixation data from a public dataset and investigate a common feature in human visual attention, which dictates correlation in saliency bet…
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；Nankai University（南开大学）；University of Central Florida（中佛罗里达大学）
In this work, we contribute to video saliency research in two ways. First, we introduce a new benchmark for predicting human eye movements during dynamic scene free-viewing, which is long-time urged in this field. Our dataset, named DHF1K (Dynamic Human Fixation), consists of 1K high-quality, elaborately selected video sequences spanning a large range of scenes, motions, object types and background complexity. Existing video saliency datasets lack variety and generality of common dynamic scenes and fall short in covering challenging situations in unconstrained environments. In contrast, DHF1K …
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Capital Normal University（首都师范大学）
Person re-identification aims at identifying a certain pedestrian across non-overlapping camera networks. Video-based re-identification approaches have gained significant attention recently, expanding image-based approaches by learning features from multiple frames. In this work, we propose a novel Co-Saliency Spatio-Temporal Interaction Network (CSTNet) for person re-identification in videos. It captures the common salient foreground regions among video frames and explores the spatial-temporal long-range context interdependency from such regions, towards learning discriminative pedestrian rep…
As an emerging vision platform, a drone can look from many abnormal viewpoints which brings many new challenges into the classic vision task of video saliency prediction. To investigate these challenges, this paper proposes a large-scale video dataset for aerial saliency prediction, which consists of ground-truth salient object regions of 1,000 aerial videos, annotated by 24 subjects. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first large-scale video dataset that focuses on visual saliency prediction on drones. Based on this dataset, we propose a Model-guided Multi-path Network (MM-Net) that serv…
Beihang University（北京航空航天大学）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
The performance of video saliency estimation techniques has achieved significant advances along with the rapid development of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, devices like cameras and drones may have limited computational capability and storage space so that the direct deployment of complex deep saliency models becomes infeasible. To address this problem, this paper proposes a dynamic saliency estimation approach for aerial videos via spatiotemporal knowledge distillation. In this approach, five components are involved, including two teachers, two students and the desired spatiot…
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；XI’AN University of Posts & Telecommunications（西安邮电大学）
Video smoke detection is a promising fire detection method especially in open or large spaces and outdoor environments. Traditional video smoke detection methods usually consist of candidate region extraction and classification, but lack powerful characterization for smoke. In this paper, we propose a novel video smoke detection method based on deep saliency network. Visual saliency detection aims to highlight the most important object regions in an image. The pixel-level and object-level salient convolutional neural networks are combined to extract the informative smoke saliency map. An end-t…
University of Southern California（南加州大学）；Facebook AI
To reduce a model size but retain performance, we often rely on knowledge distillation (KD) which transfers knowledge from a large "teacher" model to a smaller "student" model. However, KD on multimodal datasets such as vision-language tasks is relatively unexplored, and digesting multimodal information is challenging since different modalities present different types of information. In this paper, we perform a large-scale empirical study to investigate the importance and effects of each modality in knowledge distillation. Furthermore, we introduce a multimodal knowledge distillation framework…
Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics（Insight SFI数据分析研究中心）；Dublin City University（都柏林城市大学）；University of Catania（卡塔尼亚大学）
Video saliency prediction has recently attracted attention of the research community, as it is an upstream task for several practical applications. However, current solutions are particularly computationally demanding, especially due to the wide usage of spatio-temporal 3D convolutions. We observe that, while different model architectures achieve similar performance on benchmarks, visual variations between predicted saliency maps are still significant. Inspired by this intuition, we propose a lightweight model that employs multiple simple heterogeneous decoders and adopts several practical app…
OpenSAL360: Open-Source Crowdsourcing Platform for Omnidirectional Video Saliency Collection
AI Center, Lomonosov Moscow State University（莫斯科国立大学人工智能中心）；MSU Institute for Artificial Intelligence（莫斯科国立大学人工智能研究所）；Lomonosov Moscow State University（莫斯科国立大学）
National Tsing Hua University（国立清华大学）；Taiwan AI Labs（台湾人工智能实验室）；Academia Sinica（中央研究院）
Automatic saliency prediction in 360° videos is critical for viewpoint guidance applications (e.g., Facebook 360 Guide). We propose a spatial-temporal network which is (1) weakly-supervised trained and (2) tailor-made for 360° viewing sphere. Note that most existing methods are less scalable since they rely on annotated saliency map for training. Most importantly, they convert 360° sphere to 2D images (e.g., a single equirectangular image or multiple separate Normal Field-of-View (NFoV) images) which introduces distortion and image boundaries. In contrast, we propose a simple and effective Cub…
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)（国立科技大学（NUST））
Understanding human visual attention and saliency is an integral part of vision research. In this context, there is an ever-present need for fresh and diverse benchmark datasets, particularly for insight into special use cases like crowded scenes. We contribute to this end by: (1) reviewing the dynamics behind saliency and crowds. (2) using eye tracking to create a dynamic human eye fixation dataset over a new set of crowd videos gathered from the Internet. The videos are annotated into three distinct density levels. (3) Finally, we evaluate state-of-the-art saliency models on our dataset to i…
Predicting saliency in videos is a challenging problem due to complex modeling of interactions between spatial and temporal information, especially when ever-changing, dynamic nature of videos is considered. Recently, researchers have proposed large-scale datasets and models that take advantage of deep learning as a way to understand what's important for video saliency. These approaches, however, learn to combine spatial and temporal features in a static manner and do not adapt themselves much to the changes in the video content. In this paper, we introduce Gated Fusion Network for dynamic sal…
In this paper, we present an analysis of recorded eye-fixation data from human subjects viewing video sequences. The purpose is to better understand visual attention for videos. Utilizing the eye-fixation data provided in the CRCNS (Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience) dataset, this paper focuses on the relation between the saliency of a pixel and that of its direct neighbors, without making any assumption about the structure of the eye-fixation maps. By employing some basic concepts from information theory, the analysis shows substantial correlation between the saliency of a …
Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University（上海大学上海先进通信与数据科学研究院）；School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University（上海大学通信与信息工程学院）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba（曼尼托巴大学计算机科学系）；Shanghai Key Laboratory of Psychotic Disorders, Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine（上海交通大学医学院附属精神卫生中心上海市精神病重点实验室）
3D convolutional neural networks have achieved promising results for video tasks in computer vision, including video saliency prediction that is explored in this paper. However, 3D convolution encodes visual representation merely on fixed local spacetime according to its kernel size, while human attention is always attracted by relational visual features at different time. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel Spatio-Temporal Self-Attention 3D Network (STSANet) for video saliency prediction, in which multiple Spatio-Temporal Self-Attention (STSA) modules are employed at different lev…
School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University（天津大学电气与信息工程学院）；Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence（Inception人工智能研究所）；School of Computer and Control Engineering, Nankai University（南开大学计算机与控制工程学院）；School of Computer Science Engineering, Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；School of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学计算机与控制工程学院）
Visual saliency detection model simulates the human visual system to perceive the scene, and has been widely used in many vision tasks. With the acquisition technology development, more comprehensive information, such as depth cue, inter-image correspondence, or temporal relationship, is available to extend image saliency detection to RGBD saliency detection, co-saliency detection, or video saliency detection. RGBD saliency detection model focuses on extracting the salient regions from RGBD images by combining the depth information. Co-saliency detection model introduces the inter-image corres…
SOTA: Spike-Navigated Optimal TrAnsport Saliency Region Detection in Composite-bias Videos
State Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing（多媒体信息处理国家重点实验室）；Hubei Key Laboratory of Transportation Internet of Things（湖北省交通运输物联网重点实验室）；Institute for Artificial Intelligence（人工智能研究院）
Spherical Vision Transformers for Audio-Visual Saliency Prediction in 360-Degree Videos
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koç University（计算机科学与工程系，科克大学）；Department of Psychology, Boğaziçi University（心理学系，博多伊大学）；National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Intelligent Platforms Research Institute（国家先进工业科学与技术研究院（AIST），智能平台研究机构）；Department of Psychology, Boğaziçi University University（心理学系，博多伊大学）；Department of Computer Engineering, Hacettepe University（计算机工程系，哈切塞特佩大学）；KUIS AI Center（KUIS人工智能中心）
STMicrolectronics, ADG Central R&D, Catania, Italy（意法半导体，ADG中央研发部，卡塔尼亚，意大利）；PeRCeiVe Lab - University of Catania（PeRCeiVe实验室 - 卡塔尼亚大学）
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 abstraction levels. We provide the base hierarchical learning mechanism with two techniques for domain adaptation and domain-specific learning. For the former, we encourage the model to unsupervisedly learn hierarchical general features using gradient reversal at multiple scales, to enhance generalization capabilities on datasets for which no annotations are provi…
Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）；Australian Centre for Robotic Vision（澳大利亚机器人视觉中心）；Data61；Cognitive Computing Lab, Baidu Research（百度研究院认知计算实验室）
In this paper, we propose a noise-aware encoder-decoder framework to disentangle a clean saliency predictor from noisy training examples, where the noisy labels are generated by unsupervised handcrafted feature-based methods. The proposed model consists of two sub-models parameterized by neural networks: (1) a saliency predictor that maps input images to clean saliency maps, and (2) a noise generator, which is a latent variable model that produces noises from Gaussian latent vectors. The whole model that represents noisy labels is a sum of the two sub-models. The goal of training the model is …
In this paper, we proposed an integrated model of semantic-aware and contrast-aware saliency combining both bottom-up and top-down cues for effective saliency estimation and eye fixation prediction. The proposed model processes visual information using two pathways. The first pathway aims to capture the attractive semantic information in images, especially for the presence of meaningful objects and object parts such as human faces. The second pathway is based on multi-scale on-line feature learning and information maximization, which learns an adaptive sparse representation for the input and d…
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology（南京信息工程大学）；JD Finance America Corporation（京东金融美国公司）
Due to a variety of motions across different frames, it is highly challenging to learn an effective spatiotemporal representation for accurate video saliency prediction (VSP). To address this issue, we develop an effective spatiotemporal feature alignment network tailored to VSP, mainly including two key sub-networks: a multi-scale deformable convolutional alignment network (MDAN) and a bidirectional convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-ConvLSTM) network. The MDAN learns to align the features of the neighboring frames to the reference one in a coarse-to-fine manner, which can well handle v…
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Beijing University of Technology（北京工业大学）；University of Macau（澳门大学）
Augmented reality (AR) overlays digital content onto the reality. In AR system, correct and precise estimations of user's visual fixations and head movements can enhance the quality of experience by allocating more computation resources on the areas of interest. However, there is inadequate research about understanding the visual exploration of users when using an AR system or modeling AR visual attention. To bridge the gap between the saliency prediction on real-world scene and on scene augmented by virtual information, we construct the ARVR saliency dataset with 12 diverse videos viewed by 2…
Robust Saliency-Aware Distillation for Few-shot Fine-grained Visual Recognition
School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology（华南理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Brain and Affective Cognitive Research Center, Pazhou Lab（琶洲实验室脑与情感认知研究中心）；Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education on Health Intelligent Perception and Paralleled Digital-Human（教育部健康智能感知与平行数字人工程研究中心）
Northwestern Polytechnical University（西北工业大学）；Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence（人工智能初始研究所）
Humans perform co-saliency detection by first summarizing the consensus knowledge in the whole group and then searching corresponding objects in each image. Previous methods usually lack robustness, scalability, or stability for the first process and simply fuse consensus features with image features for the second process. In this paper, we propose a novel consensus-aware dynamic convolution model to explicitly and effectively perform the "summarize and search" process. To summarize consensus image features, we first summarize robust features for every single image using an effective pooling …
Autonomous vehicles are expected to operate safely in real-life road conditions in the next years. Nevertheless, unanticipated events such as the existence of unexpected objects in the range of the road, can put safety at risk. The advancement of sensing and communication technologies and Internet of Things may facilitate the recognition of hazardous situations and information exchange in a cooperative driving scheme, providing new opportunities for the increase of collaborative situational awareness. Safe and unobtrusive visualization of the obtained information may nowadays be enabled throug…
Multi-level features are important for saliency detection. Better combination and use of multi-level features with time information can greatly improve the accuracy of the video saliency model. In order to fully combine multi-level features and make it serve the video saliency model, we propose a 3D fully convolutional encoder-decoder architecture for video saliency detection, which combines scale, space and time information for video saliency modeling. The encoder extracts multi-scale temporal-spatial features from the input continuous video frames, and then constructs temporal-spatial featur…
Insight Center for Data Analytics（Insight数据分析中心）；Dublin City University（都柏林城市大学）；Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya（加泰罗尼亚理工大学）
This paper investigates modifying an existing neural network architecture for static saliency prediction using two types of recurrences that integrate information from the temporal domain. The first modification is the addition of a ConvLSTM within the architecture, while the second is a conceptually simple exponential moving average of an internal convolutional state. We use weights pre-trained on the SALICON dataset and fine-tune our model on DHF1K. Our results show that both modifications achieve state-of-the-art results and produce similar saliency maps. Source code is available at https:/…
Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics（江西财经大学）
Different from salient object detection methods for still images, a key challenging for video saliency detection is how to extract and combine spatial and temporal features. In this paper, we present a novel and effective approach for salient object detection for video sequences based on 3D convolutional neural networks. First, we design a 3D convolutional network (Conv3DNet) with the input as three video frame to learn the spatiotemporal features for video sequences. Then, we design a 3D deconvolutional network (Deconv3DNet) to combine the spatiotemporal features to predict the final saliency…
Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；University of East Anglia（东安格利亚大学）
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, and (2) fast video saliency training and detection. The proposed deep video saliency network consists of two modules, for capturing the spatial and temporal saliency information, respectively. The dynamic saliency model, explicitly incorporating saliency estimates from the static saliency model, directly produces spatiotemporal saliency inference without ti…
As an important and challenging problem in computer vision, video saliency detection is typically cast as a spatiotemporal context modeling problem over consecutive frames. As a result, a key issue in video saliency detection is how to effectively capture the intrinsical properties of atomic video structures as well as their associated contextual interactions along the spatial and temporal dimensions. Motivated by this observation, we propose a graph-theoretic video saliency detection approach based on adaptive video structure discovery, which is carried out within a spatiotemporal atomic grap…
State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学虚拟现实技术与系统国家重点实验室）；Qingdao University（青岛大学）；Peng Cheng Laboratory（鹏城实验室）；Stony Brook University（石溪大学）
With the rapid development of deep learning techniques, image saliency deep models trained solely by spatial information have occasionally achieved detection performance for video data comparable to that of the models trained by both spatial and temporal information. However, due to the lesser consideration of temporal information, the image saliency deep models may become fragile in the video sequences dominated by temporal information. Thus, the most recent video saliency detection approaches have adopted the network architecture starting with a spatial deep model that is followed by an elab…
In this paper we introduce a novel Depth-Aware Video Saliency approach to predict human focus of attention when viewing RGBD videos on regular 2D screens. We train a generative convolutional neural network which predicts a saliency map for a frame, given the fixation map of the previous frame. Saliency estimation in this scenario is highly important since in the near future 3D video content will be easily acquired and yet hard to display. This can be explained, on the one hand, by the dramatic improvement of 3D-capable acquisition equipment. On the other hand, despite the considerable progress…
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya（加泰罗尼亚理工大学）；Dublin City University（都柏林城市大学）
This work adapts a deep neural model for image saliency prediction to the temporal domain of egocentric video. We compute the saliency map for each video frame, firstly with an off-the-shelf model trained from static images, secondly by adding a a convolutional or conv-LSTM layers trained with a dataset for video saliency prediction. We study each configuration on EgoMon, a new dataset made of seven egocentric videos recorded by three subjects in both free-viewing and task-driven set ups. Our results indicate that the temporal adaptation is beneficial when the viewer is not moving and observin…
Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have exhibited great success in predicting the saliency of images. However, there are few works that apply DNNs to predict the saliency of generic videos. In this paper, we propose a novel DNN-based video saliency prediction method. Specifically, we establish a large-scale eye-tracking database of videos (LEDOV), which provides sufficient data to train the DNN models for predicting video saliency. Through the statistical analysis of our LEDOV database, we find that human attention is normally attracted by objects, particularly moving objects…
ViASNet: A Video Ad Saliency Network for Predicting Dynamic Saliency and Viewer Engagement
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA（数学系，马里兰大学，学院公园，MD 20742, 美国）；Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA（罗伯特·H·史密斯商学院，马里兰大学，学院公园，MD 20742, 美国）
National University of Sciences and Technology（国立科技大学）；School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science（电气工程与计算机科学学院）
Substantial research has been done in saliency modeling to develop intelligent machines that can perceive and interpret their surroundings. But existing models treat videos as merely image sequences excluding any audio information, unable to cope with inherently varying content. Based on the hypothesis that an audiovisual saliency model will be an improvement over traditional saliency models for natural uncategorized videos, this work aims to provide a generic audio/video saliency model augmenting a visual saliency map with an audio saliency map computed by synchronizing low-level audio and vi…
SOKENDAI (Graduate University for Advanced Studies)（综合研究大学院大学）；National Institute of Informatics（国立信息学研究所）
Detecting salient objects from a video requires exploiting both spatial and temporal knowledge included in the video. We propose a novel region-based multiscale spatiotemporal saliency detection method for videos, where static features and dynamic features computed from the low and middle levels are combined together. Our method utilizes such combined features spatially over each frame and, at the same time, temporally across frames using consistency between consecutive frames. Saliency cues in our method are analyzed through a multiscale segmentation model, and fused across scale levels, yiel…
TASED-Net is a 3D fully-convolutional network architecture for video saliency detection. It consists of two building blocks: first, the encoder network extracts low-resolution spatiotemporal features from an input clip of several consecutive frames, and then the following prediction network decodes the encoded features spatially while aggregating all the temporal information. As a result, a single prediction map is produced from an input clip of multiple frames. Frame-wise saliency maps can be predicted by applying TASED-Net in a sliding-window fashion to a video. The proposed approach assumes…
ViSAGE @ NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction
Shandong University（山东大学）；Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)（哈尔滨工业大学（深圳））；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Shenzhen Loop Area Institute（深圳河套学院）
360$^\circ$ video saliency detection is one of the challenging benchmarks for 360$^\circ$ video understanding since non-negligible distortion and discontinuity occur in the projection of any format of 360$^\circ$ videos, and capture-worthy viewpoint in the omnidirectional sphere is ambiguous by nature. We present a new framework named Panoramic Vision Transformer (PAVER). We design the encoder using Vision Transformer with deformable convolution, which enables us not only to plug pretrained models from normal videos into our architecture without additional modules or finetuning but also to per…
Visual saliency, which predicts regions in the field of view that draw the most visual attention, has attracted a lot of interest from researchers. It has already been used in several vision tasks, e.g., image classification, object detection, foreground segmentation. Recently, the spectrum analysis based visual saliency approach has attracted a lot of interest due to its simplicity and good performance, where the phase information of the image is used to construct the saliency map. In this paper, we propose a new approach for detecting spatiotemporal visual saliency based on the phase spectru…
Hunan University of Science and Technology（湖南科技大学）；Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；Ocean University of China（中国海洋大学）
Content-based adult video detection plays an important role in preventing pornography. However, existing methods usually rely on single modality and seldom focus on multi-modality semantics representation. Addressing at this problem, we put forward an approach of analyzing periodicity and saliency for adult video detection. At first, periodic patterns and salient regions are respective-ly analyzed in audio-frames and visual-frames. Next, the multi-modal co-occurrence semantics is described by combining audio periodicity with visual saliency. Moreover, the performance of our approach is evaluat…
