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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have revolutionized the understanding of visual content. This is mainly due to their ability to break down an image into smaller pieces, extract multi-scale localized features and compose them to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zachary Wharton , Ardhendu Behera , Asish Bera

This paper studies interpretability of convolutional networks by means of saliency maps. Most approaches based on Class Activation Maps (CAM) combine information from fully connected layers and gradient through variants of backpropagation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Felipe Torres Figueroa , Hanwei Zhang , Ronan Sicre , Yannis Avrithis , Stephane Ayache

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular type of computer model that have proven their worth in many computer vision tasks. Moreover, they form an interesting study object for the field of psychology, with shown correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Laurent Mertens , Elahe' Yargholi , Laura Van Hove , Hans Op de Beeck , Jan Van den Stock , Joost Vennekens

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques, such as Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM), have become indispensable for visualizing the reasoning process of deep neural networks in medical image analysis. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Teerapong Panboonyuen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are commonly used for image classification. Saliency methods are examples of approaches that can be used to interpret CNNs post hoc, identifying the most relevant pixels for a prediction following the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Nicholas Halliwell , Freddy Lecue

Explaining deep learning models is essential for clinical integration of medical image analysis systems. A good explanation highlights if a model depends on spurious features that undermines generalization and harms a subset of patients or,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-18 Yoni Schirris , Eric Marcus , Jonas Teuwen , Hugo Horlings , Efstratios Gavves

We investigate the problem of explainability for visual object detectors. Specifically, we demonstrate on the example of the YOLO object detector how to integrate Grad-CAM into the model architecture and analyze the results. We show how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Armin Kirchknopf , Djordje Slijepcevic , Ilkay Wunderlich , Michael Breiter , Johannes Traxler , Matthias Zeppelzauer

This paper presents a deep learning approach for the classification of Engineering (CAD) models using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Owing to the availability of large annotated datasets and also enough computational power in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Bharadwaj Manda , Pranjal Bhaskare , Ramanathan Muthuganapathy

In convolutional neural networks (CNNs), padding plays a pivotal role in preserving spatial dimensions throughout the layers. Traditional padding techniques do not explicitly distinguish between the actual image content and the padded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Juho Kim

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to cluster unlabeled images into known and novel categories using labeled images from known classes. To address the challenge of transferring features from known to unknown classes while mitigating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Bhupendra Solanki , Ashwin Nair , Mainak Singha , Souradeep Mukhopadhyay , Ankit Jha , Biplab Banerjee

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have revolutionized various fields of vision research and have seen unprecedented adoption for multiple tasks such as classification, detection, captioning, etc. However, they offer little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Konda Reddy Mopuri , Utsav Garg , R. Venkatesh Babu

We propose a general framework called Network Dissection for quantifying the interpretability of latent representations of CNNs by evaluating the alignment between individual hidden units and a set of semantic concepts. Given any CNN model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 David Bau , Bolei Zhou , Aditya Khosla , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Classification networks can be used to localize and segment objects in images by means of class activation maps (CAMs). However, without pixel-level annotations, classification networks are known to (1) mainly focus on discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Arvi Jonnarth , Michael Felsberg

In this paper we propose an implement a general convolutional neural network (CNN) building framework for designing real-time CNNs. We validate our models by creating a real-time vision system which accomplishes the tasks of face detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-23 Octavio Arriaga , Matias Valdenegro-Toro , Paul Plöger

One of the main challenges for broad adoption of deep learning based models such as convolutional neural networks (CNN), is the lack of understanding of their decisions. In many applications, a simpler, less capable model that can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Devinder Kumar , Vlado Menkovski , Graham W. Taylor , Alexander Wong

With the substantial performance of neural networks in sensitive fields increases the need for interpretable deep learning models. Major challenge is to uncover the multiscale and distributed representation hidden inside the basket mappings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Piduguralla Manaswini , Jignesh S. Bhatt

Nowadays, deep neural networks for object detection in images are very prevalent. However, due to the complexity of these networks, users find it hard to understand why these objects are detected by models. We proposed Gaussian Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Quoc Khanh Nguyen , Truong Thanh Hung Nguyen , Vo Thanh Khang Nguyen , Van Binh Truong , Quoc Hung Cao

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved breakthrough performance in many pattern recognition tasks such as image classification. However, the development of high-quality deep models typically relies on a substantial amount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Mengchen Liu , Jiaxin Shi , Zhen Li , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu , Shixia Liu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) learn abstract features to perform object classification, but understanding these features remains challenging due to difficult-to-interpret results or high computational costs. We propose an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Maren H. Wehrheim , Pamela Osuna-Vargas , Matthias Kaschube

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a high accuracy on image classification tasks. However, DNNs trained by such dataset with co-occurrence bias may rely on wrong features while making decisions for classification. It will greatly affect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Xi Yang , Bojian Wu , Issei Sato , Takeo Igarashi