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  • Babak Nadjar Araabi

    Possible advisor · last author on 5 of their early first-author papers, 2008–2010

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  • Laurent Itti

    Possible advisor · last author on 10 of their early first-author papers, 2011–2012

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  • Structure-Measure: A New Way to Evaluate Foreground Maps

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Yun Liu, Tao Li, Ali Borji

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    1,953
  • State-of-the-Art in Visual Attention Modeling

    Ali Borji, Laurent Itti

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2012

    1,935
  • Enhanced-alignment Measure for Binary Foreground Map Evaluation

    Deng-Ping Fan, Cheng Gong, Yang Hua Cao, Bo Ren, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji

    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    This paper takes a detailed look at current binary FM evaluation measures and proposes a novel and effective E-measure (Enhanced-alignment measure), jointly capturing image-level statistics and local pixel matching information, which demonstrates the superiority of this measure over the available measures on 4 popular datasets via 5 meta-measures.

    1,716
  • Deeply Supervised Salient Object Detection with Short Connections

    Qibin Hou, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Xiaowei Hu, Ali Borji, Zhuowen Tu A, Philip H. S. Torr

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2018

    This paper proposes a new salient object detection method by introducing short connections to the skip-layer structures within the HED architecture, which takes full advantage of multi-level and multi-scale features extracted from FCNs, providing more advanced representations at each layer, a property that is critically needed to perform segment detection.

    1,458
  • Pros and cons of GAN evaluation measures

    Ali Borji

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2018

    More than 19 quantitative and 4 qualitative measures for evaluating generative models with a particular emphasis on GAN-derived models are reviewed and critically discussed.

    1,003
  • 1Salient Object Detection: A Survey

    Ali Borji, Huaizu Jiang, Jia Li

    Computational Visual Media · 2016

    A comprehensive review of recent progress in salient object detection is provided and this field is situate among other closely related areas such as generic scene segmentation, object proposal generation, and saliency for fixation prediction.

    848
  • Quantitative Analysis of Human-Model Agreement in Visual Saliency Modeling: A Comparative Study

    Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, Laurent Itti

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 2012

    651
  • Salient Object Detection With Pyramid Attention and Salient Edges

    Wenguan Wang, Zhao Shuyang, Jianbing Shen, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ali Borji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    535
  • A Categorical Archive of ChatGPT Failures

    Ali Borji

    Research Square · 2023

    508
  • Detect Globally, Refine Locally: A Novel Approach to Saliency Detection

    Tiantian Wang, Lihe Zhang, Shuo Wang, Huchuan Lu, Gang Yang, Xiang Ruan, Ali Borji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    461
  • A Stagewise Refinement Model for Detecting Salient Objects in Images

    Tiantian Wang, Ali Borji, Lihe Zhang, Pingping Zhang, Huchuan Lu

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    450
  • Salient Object Detection: A Benchmark

    Ali Borji, Dicky N. Sihite, Laurent Itti

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2012

    This work analyzes benchmark datasets and scoring techniques and provides a quantitative comparison of 35 state-of-the-art saliency detection models to identify the scenes where models or humans fail to detect the most salient object.

    416
  • BBS-Net: RGB-D Salient Object Detection with a Bifurcated Backbone Strategy Network

    Deng-Ping Fan, Yingjie Zhai, Ali Borji, Jufeng Yang, Ling Shao

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2020

    This paper proposes a bifurcated backbone strategy (BBS) to split the multi-level features of RGB-D salient object detection into teacher and student features, and utilizes a depth-enhanced module (DEM) to excavate informative parts of depth cues from the channel and spatial views.

    402
  • Pros and cons of GAN evaluation measures: New developments

    Ali Borji

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2021

    New dimensions that are becoming important in assessing models (e.g. bias and fairness) are described and the connection between GAN evaluation and deepfakes is discussed, which are important areas of concern in the machine learning community today and progress in GAN Evaluation can help mitigate them.

    393
  • Exploiting local and global patch rarities for saliency detection

    Ali Borji, Laurent Itti

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2012

    387
  • Salient Objects in Clutter: Bringing Salient Object Detection to the Foreground

    Deng-Ping Fan, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Jiangjiang Liu, Shanghua Gao, Qibin Hou, Ali Borji

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2018

    This work identifies a serious design bias of existing SOD datasets which assumes that each image contains at least one clearly outstanding salient object in low clutter, and proposes a new high quality dataset and updates the previous saliency benchmark.

    347
  • Revisiting Video Saliency Prediction in the Deep Learning Era

    Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Jianwen Xie, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Haibin Ling, Ali Borji

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    330
  • Revisiting Video Saliency: A Large-Scale Benchmark and a New Model

    Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Fang Guo, Ming‐Ming Cheng, Ali Borji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    This work introduces a new benchmark for predicting human eye movements during dynamic scene free-viewing, and proposes a novel video saliency model that augments the CNN-LSTM network architecture with an attention mechanism to enable fast, end-to-end saliency learning.

    311
  • Boosting bottom-up and top-down visual features for saliency estimation

    Ali Borji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2012

    286
  • Defending Yarbus: Eye movements reveal observers' task

    Ali Borji, Laurent Itti

    Journal of Vision · 2014

    Yarbus's idea that human eye-movement patterns are modulated top down by different task demands is supported by the data and continues to be an inspiration for future computational and experimental eye- Movement research.

    267
  • Analysis of Scores, Datasets, and Models in Visual Saliency Prediction

    Ali Borji, Hamed R. Tavakoli, Dicky N. Sihite, Laurent Itti

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2013

    250
  • Cross-View Image Synthesis Using Conditional GANs

    Krishna Regmi, Ali Borji

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    This paper attempts to solve the novel problem of cross-view image synthesis, aerial to street-view and vice versa, using conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN), and proposes two new architectures called Crossview Fork (X-Fork) and Crossview Sequential (x-Seq).

    231
  • A Note on Shumailov et al. (2024): `AI Models Collapse When Trained on Recursively Generated Data'

    Ali Borji

    arXiv · 2024

    The effects of fitting a distribution or a model to the data, followed by repeated sampling from it, and the effects of fitting a distribution or a model to the data, followed by repeated sampling from it are investigated.

    217
  • Inferring Salient Objects from Human Fixations

    Wenguan Wang, Jianbing Shen, Xingping Dong, Ali Borji, Ruigang Yang

    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2019

    216
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