Title
A Data-Driven Metric for Comprehensive Evaluation of Saliency Models
Abstract
In the past decades, hundreds of saliency models have been proposed for fixation prediction, along with dozens of evaluation metrics. However, existing metrics, which are often heuristically designed, may draw conflict conclusions in comparing saliency models. As a consequence, it becomes somehow confusing on the selection of metrics in comparing new models with state-of-the-arts. To address this problem, we propose a data-driven metric for comprehensive evaluation of saliency models. Instead of heuristically designing such a metric, we first conduct extensive subjective tests to find how saliency maps are assessed by the human-being. Based on the user data collected in the tests, nine representative evaluation metrics are directly compared by quantizing their performances in assessing saliency maps. Moreover, we propose to learn a data-driven metric by using Convolutional Neural Network. Compared with existing metrics, experimental results show that the data-driven metric performs the most consistently with the human-being in evaluating saliency maps as well as saliency models.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICCV.2015.30
ICCV
Keywords
Field
DocType
convolutional neural network,saliency maps,fixation prediction,saliency models,comprehensive evaluation,data-driven metric
Computer vision,Heuristic,Data-driven,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Salience (neuroscience),Artificial intelligence,Quantization (signal processing),Machine learning
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2015
1
1550-5499
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.52
31
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jia Li152442.09
Changqun Xia2394.28
Yafei Song3365.63
Shu Fang4102.90
Xiaowu Chen560545.05