# Saliency Map Evaluation on ImageNet-S50 (test)

Source: [Saliency Map Evaluation on ImageNet-S50 (test)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/saliency-map-evaluation-on-imagenet-s50-test>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-05-04T08:56:52.402Z

Evaluation of saliency map quality on the test split of the ImageNet-S50 subset, using metrics like Pointing Game, Sparseness, and Fidelity.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Saliency Map Evaluation |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | ImageNet-S50 (test) |
| Metric | Pointing Game |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 34 of 34 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Pointing Game](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/saliency-map-evaluation-on-imagenet-s50-test.md?metric=Pointing%20Game>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Attribution Localization](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/saliency-map-evaluation-on-imagenet-s50-test.md?metric=Attribution%20Localization>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Sparseness](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/saliency-map-evaluation-on-imagenet-s50-test.md?metric=Sparseness>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Fidelity](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/saliency-map-evaluation-on-imagenet-s50-test.md?metric=Fidelity>): Higher is better; unit: SCALAR.

- [Stability](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/saliency-map-evaluation-on-imagenet-s50-test.md?metric=Stability>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Pointing Game | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SRD-input | 95.3 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| SRD-high | 95.2 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| SRD-high | 94.8 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GradCAM | 94.6 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| XGradCAM | 94.6 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| SRD-low | 94.6 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GradCAM | 94.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GradCAM++ | 94.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| SRD-low | 94.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| LayerCAM-high | 94.1 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| Fullgrad | 93.8 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| ScoreCAM | 93.7 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| AblationCAM | 93.4 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| LayerCAM-low | 93.4 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GradCAM++ | 93.2 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| AblationCAM | 92.8 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| SRD-input | 92.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| ScoreCAM | 91.6 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| XGradCAM | 89.6 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GuidedBackprop | 89.2 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| Smoothgrad | 88.8 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GuidedBackprop | 87.1 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| InteGrad | 86.9 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| LayerCAM-low | 86.9 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| LayerCAM-high | 86.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| LRPz+ | 85.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| Smoothgrad | 84.5 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| Fullgrad | 79.6 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| Saliency | 79.3 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GradInput | 78.1 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| InteGrad | 75.9 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| Saliency | 65.4 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| GradInput | 63.9 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |
| LRPz+ | 54.3 | Not recorded | 69f827d9c0f56ed843088830 |

### SRD-input

Pointing Game: 95.3. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b53.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SRD-high

Pointing Game: 95.2. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b51.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"28x28"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SRD-high

Pointing Game: 94.8. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b50.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"28x28"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GradCAM

Pointing Game: 94.6. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b41.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa66cb1e209131cea12568.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/ramprs/grad-cam/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XGradCAM

Pointing Game: 94.6. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b49.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa682a1e209131cea1a6d2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SRD-low

Pointing Game: 94.6. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b4f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GradCAM

Pointing Game: 94.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b40.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa66cb1e209131cea12568.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/ramprs/grad-cam/>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GradCAM++

Pointing Game: 94.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b43.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SRD-low

Pointing Game: 94.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b4e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LayerCAM-high

Pointing Game: 94.1. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b4d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"28x28"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Fullgrad

Pointing Game: 93.8. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b3f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa66cb1e209131cea12581.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ScoreCAM

Pointing Game: 93.7. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b44.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa675c1e209131cea15d45.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/haofanwang/Score-CAM>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### AblationCAM

Pointing Game: 93.4. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b47.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LayerCAM-low

Pointing Game: 93.4. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b4b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GradCAM++

Pointing Game: 93.2. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b42.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### AblationCAM

Pointing Game: 92.8. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b46.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SRD-input

Pointing Game: 92.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b52.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### ScoreCAM

Pointing Game: 91.6. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b45.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa675c1e209131cea15d45.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/haofanwang/Score-CAM>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### XGradCAM

Pointing Game: 89.6. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b48.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa682a1e209131cea1a6d2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GuidedBackprop

Pointing Game: 89.2. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b34.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61d01e209131ce9f633d.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Smoothgrad

Pointing Game: 88.8. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b3d.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63661e209131ce9fe6d2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GuidedBackprop

Pointing Game: 87.1. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b35.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa61d01e209131ce9f633d.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### InteGrad

Pointing Game: 86.9. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b38.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63661e209131ce9fe6bd.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LayerCAM-low

Pointing Game: 86.9. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b4a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"7x7"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LayerCAM-high

Pointing Game: 86.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b4c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"28x28"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LRPz+

Pointing Game: 85.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b3a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63d21e209131cea00f7d.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Smoothgrad

Pointing Game: 84.5. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b3c.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63661e209131ce9fe6d2.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Fullgrad

Pointing Game: 79.6. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b3e.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa66cb1e209131cea12581.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Saliency

Pointing Game: 79.3. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b32.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa614c1e209131ce9f38a9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GradInput

Pointing Game: 78.1. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b36.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa634e1e209131ce9fdf64.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"VGG16","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### InteGrad

Pointing Game: 75.9. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b39.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63661e209131ce9fe6bd.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Saliency

Pointing Game: 65.4. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b33.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa614c1e209131ce9f38a9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GradInput

Pointing Game: 63.9. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b37.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa634e1e209131ce9fdf64.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### LRPz+

Pointing Game: 54.3. Result ID: 69f85f5247f34ce924dc3b3b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/69f827d9c0f56ed843088830.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa63d21e209131cea00f7d.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Backbone":"ResNet50","Resolution":"224x224"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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