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How is Gaze Influenced by Image Transformations? Dataset and Model
Data size is the bottleneck for developing deep saliency models, because
collecting eye-movement data is very time consuming and expensive. Most of
current studies on human attention and saliency modeling have used high quality
stereotype stimuli. In real world, however, captured images undergo various
types of transformations. Can we use these transformations to augment existing
saliency datasets? Here, we first create a novel saliency dataset including
fixations of 10 observers over 1900 images degraded by 19 types of
transformations. Second, by analyzing eye movements, we find that observers
look at different locations over transformed versus original images. Third, we
utilize the new data over transformed images, called data augmentation
transformation (DAT), to train deep saliency models. We find that label
preserving DATs with negligible impact on human gaze boost saliency prediction,
whereas some other DATs that severely impact human gaze degrade the
performance. These label preserving valid augmentation transformations provide
a solution to enlarge existing saliency datasets. Finally, we introduce a novel
saliency model based on generative adversarial network (dubbed GazeGAN). A
modified UNet is proposed as the generator of the GazeGAN, which combines
classic skip connections with a novel center-surround connection (CSC), in
order to leverage multi level features. We also propose a histogram loss based
on Alternative Chi Square Distance (ACS HistLoss) to refine the saliency map in
terms of luminance distribution. Extensive experiments and comparisons over 3
datasets indicate that GazeGAN achieves the best performance in terms of
popular saliency evaluation metrics, and is more robust to various
perturbations. Our code and data are available at:
https://github.com/CZHQuality/Sal-CFS-GAN
Personalization of Saliency Estimation
Most existing saliency models use low-level features or task descriptions
when generating attention predictions. However, the link between observer
characteristics and gaze patterns is rarely investigated. We present a novel
saliency prediction technique which takes viewers' identities and personal
traits into consideration when modeling human attention. Instead of only
computing image salience for average observers, we consider the interpersonal
variation in the viewing behaviors of observers with different personal traits
and backgrounds. We present an enriched derivative of the GAN network, which is
able to generate personalized saliency predictions when fed with image stimuli
and specific information about the observer. Our model contains a generator
which generates grayscale saliency heat maps based on the image and an observer
label. The generator is paired with an adversarial discriminator which learns
to distinguish generated salience from ground truth salience. The discriminator
also has the observer label as an input, which contributes to the
personalization ability of our approach. We evaluate the performance of our
personalized salience model by comparison with a benchmark model along with
other un-personalized predictions, and illustrate improvements in prediction
accuracy for all tested observer groups
Extractive Adversarial Networks: High-Recall Explanations for Identifying Personal Attacks in Social Media Posts
We introduce an adversarial method for producing high-recall explanations of
neural text classifier decisions. Building on an existing architecture for
extractive explanations via hard attention, we add an adversarial layer which
scans the residual of the attention for remaining predictive signal. Motivated
by the important domain of detecting personal attacks in social media comments,
we additionally demonstrate the importance of manually setting a semantically
appropriate `default' behavior for the model by explicitly manipulating its
bias term. We develop a validation set of human-annotated personal attacks to
evaluate the impact of these changes.Comment: Accepted to EMNLP 2018 Code and data available at
https://github.com/shcarton/rcn
Visual Feature Attribution using Wasserstein GANs
Attributing the pixels of an input image to a certain category is an
important and well-studied problem in computer vision, with applications
ranging from weakly supervised localisation to understanding hidden effects in
the data. In recent years, approaches based on interpreting a previously
trained neural network classifier have become the de facto state-of-the-art and
are commonly used on medical as well as natural image datasets. In this paper,
we discuss a limitation of these approaches which may lead to only a subset of
the category specific features being detected. To address this problem we
develop a novel feature attribution technique based on Wasserstein Generative
Adversarial Networks (WGAN), which does not suffer from this limitation. We
show that our proposed method performs substantially better than the
state-of-the-art for visual attribution on a synthetic dataset and on real 3D
neuroimaging data from patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and
Alzheimer's disease (AD). For AD patients the method produces compellingly
realistic disease effect maps which are very close to the observed effects.Comment: Accepted to CVPR 201
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