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Visual interpretability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) has gained significant popularity because of the great challenges that CNN complexity imposes to understanding their inner workings. Although many techniques have been proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Alexandros Stergiou

Mechanistic interpretability is concerned with analyzing individual components in a (convolutional) neural network (CNN) and how they form larger circuits representing decision mechanisms. These investigations are challenging since CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Robin Hesse , Jonas Fischer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

Are deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification explainable by utility maximization with information acquisition costs? We demonstrate that deep CNNs behave equivalently (in terms of necessary and sufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kunal Pattanayak , Vikram Krishnamurthy

Object recognition has become a crucial part of machine learning and computer vision recently. The current approach to object recognition involves Deep Learning and uses Convolutional Neural Networks to learn the pixel patterns of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Abrar Ahmed , Anish Bikmal

When seeing a new object, humans can immediately recognize it across different retinal locations: the internal object representation is invariant to translation. It is commonly believed that Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Valerio Biscione , Jeffrey S. Bowers

Interpreting the decision logic behind effective deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on images complements the success of deep learning models. However, the existing methods can only interpret some specific decision logic on individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Peter Cho-Ho Lam , Lingyang Chu , Maxim Torgonskiy , Jian Pei , Yong Zhang , Lanjun Wang

Convolutional neural networks (CNN's) are powerful and widely used tools. However, their interpretability is far from ideal. One such shortcoming is the difficulty of deducing a network's ability to generalize to unseen data. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Rickard Brüel Gabrielsson , Gunnar Carlsson

In this paper we introduce a new problem within the growing literature of interpretability for convolution neural networks (CNNs). While previous work has focused on the question of how to visually interpret CNNs, we ask what it is that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sílvia Casacuberta , Esra Suel , Seth Flaxman

Semantic object parts can be useful for several visual recognition tasks. Lately, these tasks have been addressed using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), achieving outstanding results. In this work we study whether CNNs learn semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Davide Modolo , Vittorio Ferrari

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been one of the most influential recent developments in computer vision, particularly for categorization. There is an increasing demand for explainable AI as these systems are deployed in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Tian Xu , Jiayu Zhan , Oliver G. B. Garrod , Philip H. S. Torr , Song-Chun Zhu , Robin A. A. Ince , Philippe G. Schyns

In this paper we introduce a novel method for general semantic segmentation that can benefit from general semantics of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Our segmentation proposes visually and semantically coherent image segments. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Hossein Mousavi , Moin Nabi , Mohammad Rastegari , Carlo Regazzoni

An important line of research attempts to explain CNN image classifier predictions and intermediate layer representations in terms of human-understandable concepts. Previous work supports that deep representations are linearly separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Stylianos Asteriadis , Dimitrios Zarpalas

With the impressive capability to capture visual content, deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demon- strated promising performance in various vision-based ap- plications, such as classification, recognition, and objec- t…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Zhen Liu

We present a novel usage of Transformers to make image classification interpretable. Unlike mainstream classifiers that wait until the last fully connected layer to incorporate class information to make predictions, we investigate a…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) can provide accurate object classification. They can be extended to perform object detection by iterating over dense or selected proposed object regions. However, the runtime of such detectors scales as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Forrest Iandola , Matt Moskewicz , Sergey Karayev , Ross Girshick , Trevor Darrell , Kurt Keutzer

We propose an object detection system that relies on a multi-region deep convolutional neural network (CNN) that also encodes semantic segmentation-aware features. The resulting CNN-based representation aims at capturing a diverse set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-25 Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

A well-designed fine-grained categorization system usually has three contradictory requirements: accuracy (the ability to identify objects among subordinate categories); interpretability (the ability to provide human-understandable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Shaoli Huang , Dacheng Tao

Deep learning algorithms offer a powerful means to automatically analyze the content of medical images. However, many biological samples of interest are primarily transparent to visible light and contain features that are difficult to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Roarke Horstmeyer , Richard Y. Chen , Barbara Kappes , Benjamin Judkewitz

This paper presents Discriminative Part Network (DP-Net), a deep architecture with strong interpretation capabilities, which exploits a pretrained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) combined with a part-based recognition module. This system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Ronan Sicre , Hanwei Zhang , Julien Dejasmin , Chiheb Daaloul , Stéphane Ayache , Thierry Artières

An important goal in visual recognition is to devise image representations that are invariant to particular transformations. In this paper, we address this goal with a new type of convolutional neural network (CNN) whose invariance is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-08 Julien Mairal , Piotr Koniusz , Zaid Harchaoui , Cordelia Schmid