Fast saliency prediction based on multi-channels activation optimization

The saliency prediction precision has improved rapidly with the development of deep learning technology, but the inference speed is slow due to the continuous deepening of networks. Hence, this paper proposes a fast saliency prediction model. Concretely, the siamese network backbone based on tailored EfficientNetV2 accelerates the inference speed while maintaining high performance. The shared parameters strategy further curbs parameter growth. Furthermore, we add multi-channel activation maps to optimize the fine features considering different channels and low-level visual features, which improves the interpretability of the model. Extensive experiments show that the proposed model achieves competitive performance on the standard benchmark datasets, and prove the effectiveness of our method in striking a balance between prediction accuracy and inference speed. Moreover, the small model size allows our method to be applied in edge devices. The code is available at: https://github.com/lscumt/fast-fixation-prediction.