Word
salience
UK/sˈeɪliəns/
Definition
n. how prominent, noticeable, or influential a specific detail is in catching attention or deciding an outcome.
n. the state or quality of being prominent or conspicuous; in machine learning and vision, a measure of how influential a specific input region is on model activations.
Examples
“The bright red stop sign had high visual salience on the quiet country road.”
“A salience map highlights which pixels in the photograph were most critical to the classifier's verdict.”
“Computing gradient-weighted class activation maps extracts visual salience without requiring architectural modifications to the underlying convolutional backbone.”
Examples
simple
“The bright red stop sign had high visual salience on the quiet country road.”
contextual
“A salience map highlights which pixels in the photograph were most critical to the classifier's verdict.”
complex
“Computing gradient-weighted class activation maps extracts visual salience without requiring architectural modifications to the underlying convolutional backbone.”
Real-World Examples
“The results showed that both meaning and salience predicted the distribution of attention, but that when the relationship between meaning and salience was controlled, only meaning accounted for unique variance in attention.” Etymology
From Latin salientem, present participle of salire ('to leap, spring'). In modern psychology and computer vision, referring to features that 'leap out' at an observer or model.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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