README.md

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title: Visual Saliency Prediction
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sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 5.23.1
app_file: app.py
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license: mit
---

This demo is based on the implementation of MSI-Net (multi-scale information network), as described in the Neural Networks paper [Contextual encoder-decoder network for visual saliency prediction](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.05.004) (2020) and on [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.06634). If you find the model or results useful, please cite the following paper:

```
@article{kroner2020contextual,
  title={Contextual encoder-decoder network for visual saliency prediction},
  author={Kroner, Alexander and Senden, Mario and Driessens, Kurt and Goebel, Rainer},
  url={http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608020301660},
  doi={https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2020.05.004},
  journal={Neural Networks},
  publisher={Elsevier},
  year={2020},
  volume={129},
  pages={261--270},
  issn={0893-6080}
}
```