NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction: Methods and Results
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This paper presents the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction, introducing a novel dataset of 2,000 diverse videos with saliency maps collected via crowdsourced mouse tracking from over 5,000 assessors. Over 20 teams participated, with 7 passing the final phase, and all data is made publicly available.
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Abstract
ThispaperpresentsanoverviewoftheNTIRE2026ChallengeonVideoSaliencyPrediction.Thegoalofthechallengeparticipantswastodevelopautomaticsaliencymappredictionmethodsfortheprovidedvideosequences.Thenoveldatasetof2,000diversevideoswithanopenlicensewaspreparedforthischallenge.Thefixationsandcorrespondingsaliencymapswerecollectedusingcrowdsourcedmousetrackingandcontainviewingdatafromover5,000assessors.Evaluationwasperformedonasubsetof800testvideosusinggenerallyacceptedqualitymetrics.Thechallengeattractedover20teamsmakingsubmissions,and7teamspassedthefinalphasewithcodereview.Alldatausedinthischallengeismadepubliclyavailable-https://github.com/msu-video-group/NTIRE26_Saliency_Prediction.
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