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  1. Emoception: Selective Affective Layer Fine-Tuning of Video Vision Transformers for Player Arousal Change Recognition From Gameplay Footage

    Oct 6, 2026Yi Xia, Ibrahim Khan, Mury Fajar Dewantoro +2Saliency

    Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan · College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Osaka, Japan · Alumni Association of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  2. Revisiting Frame-Wise Saliency for Audio Moment Retrieval

    Oct 5, 2026Tatsuya Komatsu, Hokuto MunakataRt-DetrNeural Audio

    LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

  3. SAGE: Salient Factor Discovery and Generation with Visual Foundation Representations

    Sep 30, 2026Shuang Liang, Lejun Liao, Shiyuan Zhang +5SaliencyUnsupervised

    HKU · Boston College · University of Virginia +1

  4. GazeFlow: From Human Gaze Behavior to Generative Egocentric Gaze Prediction

    Sep 29, 2026Sheng Zhao, Weikai Lin, Yuhao ZhuGaze Target EstimationGaze Behavior

    Department of Computer Science University of Rochester

  5. TReVS: Integrating Textual Relevance and Visual Saliency for Efficient Vision-Language Model Token Pruning

    Sep 29, 2026Jing Wang, Zhiping Wu, Dongdong Ren +3Visual Token PruningRecent Vision-Language Models

    School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University · School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University · Geely Automobile Research Institute (Ningbo) Co., Ltd., 315000 +1

  6. Representation Dynamics Reveal Semantic Saliency and Similarity for Visual Token Pruning in MLLMs

    Sep 29, 2026Weixuan Li, Zikun Zhou, Xinyi Zhuang +4Long Visual-Token SequencesMultimodal Large Language Models

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  7. Narrowing the Horizon: Quantifying Topic Saliency Shifts in Generative Monoculture

    Sep 28, 2026Oriane Peter, Elena Simperl, Kate DevlinLarge Language Model BiasSaliency

    King’s College London London, United Kingdom

  8. ACPruner: Visual Token Pruning as Biased Attention Coverage Maximization in LVLMs

    Sep 28, 2026Xu Li, Yuxuan Liang, Yi Zheng +6Visual Token PruningSaliency

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  9. Faithful Faithfulness Evaluations: Challenges & Pitfalls Learned from a Breast MRI Case Study

    Sep 22, 2026Peachapong Poolpol, Henrik H. J. Detjen, Eike PetersenExplainabilitySaliency

    Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, Bremen, Germany · Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Deggendorf, Germany

  10. XSQ-AST: An Explainable Audio Spectrogram Transformer Framework for Localising Synthetic Speech Artifacts

    Sep 21, 2026Ben Heritage, Luca Resti, Mónica Villanueva Aylagas +3SpeakerAudio Understanding

    AudioLab, School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, University of York, United Kingdom · SEED – Electronic Arts (EA), Sweden +1

  11. High-Fidelity Video Quality Assessment with VQA-Specific Saliency

    Sep 15, 2026Hakan Emre Gedik, Shashank Gupta, Alan BovikVideo QualityVision Encoders

    The University of Texas at Austin · University of Colorado Boulder

  12. POLARIS: Training-Free Audio Fingerprinting with Saliency-Based Landmarks and Delaunay Grouping

    Sep 13, 2026Jiheng LiFingerprintNeural Audio

    Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37235

  13. A Quantitative Evaluation Framework for Temporal Explainability in Echocardiographic Video Segmentation

    Sep 7, 2026Jiyoo Noh, Jonathan H. ChanEchocardiographyGradient-Weighted Class Activation Mapping

    University of Toronto, Canada · King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand

  14. Efficient Semantic Understanding from Digital Foveation

    Sep 3, 2026Caterina Caccavella, Vittorio Fra, Andreas Ziegler +2Dense PredictionSaliency

    Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Wädenswil, Switzerland · ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland · Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy +2

  15. VestigeKV: The NoPE-MLA KV Cache Carries Its Own Sparse-Attention Signal in a Vestigial Branch

    Sep 3, 2026WenJie FanKey-Value CacheCache

    Yotta Labs

  16. Pushing the (Decision) Boundaries: Dynamically Calibrating Differentially Private Noise to Explainability in Federated Learning

    Sep 3, 2026Michael Khavkin, Kichang Lee, Jaeho Jin +2Federated LearningExplainability

    School of Industrial & Intelligent Systems Engineering, Tel Aviv University · School of Integrated Technology, Yonsei University

  17. From Saliency to Discriminability: Rank-Preserving Visual Token Pruning for VLM Rerankers

    Sep 1, 2026Siyi Liu, Hanjun Yang, Chenchen Zhang +7Visual Token PruningLarge Language Model Reranking

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · 2Tencent Yuanbao · 3ARC Lab, Tencent

  18. Every Token Leaves a Ripple in the Stream of Thought: Eliciting Model-Internal Token Saliency for Chain-of-Thought Compression

    Aug 31, 2026Tianyi Zhao, Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng +2Chain-of-Thought ReasoningReasoning Chain

    University of Virginia

  19. Multi-View Reflective Surface Inspection via Semantic-Saliency Cross-Verification

    Aug 31, 2026Van-Giang Nguyen, Thanh-Tuan Tran, Xuan-Hieu Phan +1InspectionSaliency

    University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi 10000, Vietnam.

  20. Improving Argument Saliency Coverage in Small LLMs for Long Legal Opinion Summarization via Sequence-Level Distillation

    Aug 30, 2026Mohamed Elaraby, Ahmed Elhady, Diane LitmanSummarizationSmall Large Language Models

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · HiTZ Center, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

  21. Human versus Computer Vision

    Aug 10, 2026Elena SirotkinaComputer VisionSaliency

    Center for Data Science New York University

  22. The Neural Echo: A Signal Processing Perspective for Understanding Neural Networks

    Aug 5, 2026Chongbiao Wang, Daniel Gaa, Joachim Weickert +1Neural NetworkConvolutional Neural Networks

    Mathematical Image Analysis Group Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saarland University Campus E1.7, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany · Zuse School ELIZA Hochschulstr. 10, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany

  23. Learning Where to Look and How to Judge: Resolution-agnostic Image Quality Assessment with Quality-aware Saliency

    Aug 3, 2026Hakan Emre Gedik, Shashank Gupta, Alan BovikImage Quality AssessmentSaliency

    The University of Texas at Austin · University of Colorado Boulder

  24. VGER: Voxel-Guided Global Event Ranking for Event Cloud Attribution

    Aug 2, 2026Youxin Jiang, Baoheng Fu, Hongwei Ren +1SaliencyPoint Clouds

    Harbin Institute of Technology

  25. Unleashing the Power of Text: Text-Guided Flow Matching for Image Fusion under Complex Degradations

    Aug 1, 2026Axi Niu, Jieheng Li, Kang Zhang +3Visible Image FusionQuery-Specific Degradation-Aware Representation

    School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China · School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · School of Electrical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea +2

  26. Is It Time for the Renaissance of Salient Object Detection in the Era of MLLMs?

    Jul 31, 2026Wenzhuo Zhao, Xiuzhi Li, Zhongkuan Mao +6Rgb-Thermal Object DetectionMultimodal Large Language Models

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, China · National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University, China · School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of ElectronicScience and Technology of China, China

  27. BladeYOLO: Wind Turbine Blade Defect Detection with Limited Annotations and Weak-Saliency Awareness

    Jul 30, 2026Yabin Xu, Fangtao Zhang, Fan Wang +5Defect DetectionYolo26

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Zhejiang Energy Digital Technology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou 311100, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China +1

  28. DensFiLM: Density-Conditioned Video Saliency for Crowd Scenes

    Jul 28, 2026Anis Ur RahmanSaliencyDense Prediction

    CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd., Espoo, Finland

  29. Dataset Distillation Based on Saliency-Driven Prototype Alignment

    Jul 28, 2026Yawen Zou, Wenqi Cai, Guang Li +3Diffusion-Based Dataset DistillationDataset Distillation

    University of Toyama · Hokkaido University · University of Fukui

  30. MEDit-Bench: A Dataset for Evaluating Message-Driven Narrative Video Editing

    Jul 28, 2026Katsuya Ogata, Zongshang Pang, Mayu Otani +1Video EditingMulti-Image Editing Benchmarks

    1The University of Osaka · 2CyberAgent, Inc.

  31. Explainable Reinforcement Learning for assisting Air Traffic Controllers

    Jul 24, 2026Anduel Mehmeti, Gabriella Gigante, Salvatore VenticinqueExplainabilityAir Traffic Control

    Department of Engineering, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy · CIRA, Italy

  32. Scene Parameter Saliency via Differentiable Light Transport

    Jul 23, 2026Linas Beresna, Eugene FiumeSaliencyDifferentiable Rendering

    Simon Fraser University Burnaby, Canada

  33. Gradient Concentration, Not Weight Saliency, Explains Representation-Level Class Unlearning

    Jul 23, 2026Billel Habbati, Alessio Merlo, Luca Verderame +1Machine UnlearningCatastrophic Forgetting

    DIBRIS – Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy · Centre for Defense Higher Studies (CASD), Palazzo Salviati, Piazza della Rovere 83, 00165 Roma, Italy

  34. Efficient and Interpretable Body-Based Emotion Recognition with Lightweight Temporal Convolutional Networks

    Jul 23, 2026Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas, Houshyar AsadiTemporal Convolutional NetworksEmotion Recognition

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovations (IISRI) Deakin University Geelong, Australia

  35. FSDBN: Foreground-Aware EEG-Visual Alignment via Dynamic Brain Networks

    Jul 20, 2026Yiheng Liu, Chuhang Zheng, Peiliang Gong +3Electroencephalography DecodingHuman Brain Networks

    College of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China · The International Joint Institute of Tianjin University, Fuzhou, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

  36. Attention-Guided Saliency Maps for Interpreting Visualization Literacy in VLMs

    Jul 17, 2026Maeve Hutchinson, Abderrahmane Wassim Mehdaoui, Pranava MadhyasthaSaliencyVisual Analytics

    City St George’s · City St George’s, University of London · The Alan Turing Institute

  37. Weakly-Supervised RGB-D Salient Object Detection via SAM-driven Pseudo Annotation and State Space Interaction-based Diffusion

    Jul 16, 2026Wenqi Si, Gongyang Li, Shixiang Shi +1Rgb-Thermal Object DetectionPixel-Level Annotation

    School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  38. MeloBottleneck: Self-Supervised Melody Skeleton Extraction with a Latent Subsequence Bottleneck

    Jul 11, 2026Fan Bu, Rongfeng Li, Linfeng FanMelodySkeleton

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Central Conservatory of Music

  39. TDSal: Task-Based Top-Down Saliency Prediction Model

    Jul 10, 2026Can Mizrakli, Tolga K. CapinSaliencyMultiple Vision Tasks

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · TED University, Türkiye

  40. Super-Tuning: From Activation-Aware Pruning to Sparse Fine-Tuning

    Jul 10, 2026Ivan Ilin, Philip Zmushko, Peter RichtárikParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning MethodsModel Fine-Tuning

    KAUST

  41. What Pixels Are Enough? SEAMS: Sufficiency Saliency via MSE-Preservation Soft-Masks

    Jul 10, 2026Magdalena Trędowicz, Łukasz Struski, Arkadiusz Lewicki +4SaliencyPixels

    Jagiellonian University · University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów · Jagiellonian University Medical College

  42. IPDiff: Diffusion-driven ORSI Salient Object Detection with Information Reconstruction and Multi-Prior Guidance

    Jul 4, 2026Gongyang Li, Zhen Bai, Runmin Cong +3Rgb-Thermal Object DetectionSaliency

    School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China · Department of Medical Equipment, the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China · School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, China +2

  43. Post-Training Pruning for Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 1, 2026Chengzhi Hu, Xuewen Liu, Jing Zhang +3Diffusion TransformersTransformer Architectures

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  44. Partition-Guided Distance Saliency: Bridging Decision and Objective Spaces in Many-Objective Optimization

    Jun 29, 2026Cláudio Lúcio do Val Lopes, Flávio Vinícius Cruzeiro Martins, Elizabeth Fialho WannerMulti-Objective OptimizationSaliency

    A3Data, BH MG Brazil · CEFET-MG - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais, BH MG Brazil · Aston University, Birmingham, West Midlands, U.K.

  45. SADL: What to Ignore? A Benchmark for Subject-Aware Distractor Localization

    Jun 29, 2026Cao-Tri Nguyen, Nguyen-Khoa Luong, Vinh-Tiep Nguyen +1DistractorSaliency

    University of Science Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · University of Information Technology Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · University of Science John Von Neumann Institute Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  46. See & Sniff: Learning Visuo-Olfactory Representations

    Jun 25, 2026Seongyu Kim, Seungwoo Lee, Hyeonggon Ryu +2SmellsCross-Modal

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea · Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea · Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

  47. S2S^{2}-FracMix: Label-Preserving Self-Saliency Mixup Augmentation

    Jun 24, 2026Khawar Islam, Arif Mahmood, Xin Jin +1Data AugmentationSaliency

    The University of Melbourne, Australia · Information Technology University, Pakistan · Westlake University, China

  48. TSD: A Physics-Inspired Trajectory Saliency Detector for Efficient Imitation Learning

    Jun 22, 2026Yiming Zhao, Gongrui Ma, Qingkai Li +1Imitation LearningSaliency

    Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  49. Rethinking the Adaptation of Vision Foundation Models for Efficient Cell Segmentation

    Jun 20, 2026Qing Xu, Xiangjian He, Wenting Duan +2Recent Vision Foundation ModelsVision Foundation Models

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, UK · School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China · School of Engineering and Physical Science, University of Lincoln, UK +2

  50. SketchXplain: Intuitive Visual Explanations of Image Classifiers with Sketches

    Jun 16, 2026Wencan Zhang, Mario Michelessa, Xuejun Zhao +1XaiSketches

    National University of Singapore

  51. SACE: Concept Erasure at the Semantic Singularity in Visual Autoregressive Models

    Jun 14, 2026Siya Yang, Nanxiang Jiang, Zhaoxin Fan +1Visual Autoregressive ModelsConcept Erasure

    1Hefei University of Technology · 2Beihang University

  52. SED:Lightweight Saliency prediction for Event-based data via Distillation

    Jun 12, 2026Romaric Mazna, Jean Martinet, Michele MagnoSaliencyEdge-Aware

    i3S/CNRS, Universit´e Cˆote d’Azur · ETH Zürich

  53. What's Old is New Again: Classical Dimensionality Reduction for Efficient Saliency-Guided Biometric Attack Detection

    Jun 11, 2026Samuel Webster, Walter ScheirerBiometricsSaliency

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Notre Dame, IN, USA

  54. Learning Task-Aware Sampling with Shared Saliency through Density-Equalizing Mappings

    Jun 11, 2026Tsz Lok Ip, Han Zhang, Lok Ming LuiSaliencyReceptive Fields

    Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. · Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

  55. RGB-S: Image-Aligned Tactile Saliency for Robust Dexterous Manipulation

    Jun 7, 2026Shengcheng Luo, Kefei Wu, Xiaoying Zhou +3TactileContact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation

    ShanghaiTech University · Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence

  56. Programmable Silicon Retina on Pixel Processor Array

    Jun 6, 2026Maciej Lewandowski, Prince Philip, Alexandre Marcireau +3SaliencyVision Sensors

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Manchester, UK · Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India · Department of Computer Science University of Manchester, UK

  57. Aqua Boundary-Saliency Attention Module for Lightweight Underwater Salient Instance Segmentation Detection Transformer

    Jun 6, 2026M. Fazri Nizar, Julian Supardi, Muhammad Naufal RachmatullahUnderwater Object DetectionSaliency

    Department of Informatics Engineering, Universitas Sriwijaya, Indonesia

  58. Frequency-Scale Saliency for Spectral Descriptor Analysis in 3D Shape Retrieval

    Jun 5, 2026Jianru ShenStatistical Shape ModelMultiscale

    University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA

  59. When Graph Tokens Sink: A Mechanistic Analysis of Graph Language Models

    Jun 2, 2026Ding Zhang, Runtao Zhou, Wenqing Zheng +3Graph-Llm IntegrationsLanguage Modeling

    University of Virginia · Capital One

  60. Attend to Anything: Foundation Model for Unified Human Attention Modeling

    Jun 2, 2026Wenzhuo Zhao, Ronghao Xian, Keren Fu +1Cross-Modal AttentionSaliency

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China · National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science on Synthetic Vision, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610065, China