Andrey Moskalenko, Alexey Bryncev, Dmitry Vatolin, Radu Timofte, Gen Zhan, Li Yang, Yunlong Tang, Yiting Liao, Jiongzhi Lin, Baitao Huang, Morteza Moradi, Mohammad Moradi, Francesco Rundo, Concetto Spampinato, Ali Borji, Simone Palazzo, Yuxin Zhu, Yinan Sun, Huiyu Duan, Yuqin Cao, Ziheng Jia, Qiang Hu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai, Hao Fang, Runmin Cong, Xiankai Lu, Xiaofei Zhou, Wei zhang, Chunyu Zhao, Wentao Mu, Tao Deng, Hamed R. Tavakoli
This paper reviews the Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction at AIM 2024. The goal of the participants was to develop a method for predicting accurate saliency maps for the provided set of video sequences. Saliency maps are widely exploited in various applications, including video compression, quality assessment, visual perception studies, the advertising industry, etc. For this competition, a previously unused large-scale audio-visual mouse saliency (AViMoS) dataset of 1500 videos with more than 70 observers per video was collected using crowdsourced mouse tracking. The dataset collection methodology has been validated using conventional eye-tracking data and has shown high consistency. Over 30 teams registered in the challenge, and there are 7 teams that submitted the results in the final phase. The final phase solutions were tested and ranked by commonly used quality metrics on a private test subset. The results of this evaluation and the descriptions of the solutions are presented in this report. All data, including the private test subset, is made publicly available on the challenge homepage - https://challenges.videoprocessing.ai/challenges/video-saliency-prediction.html.