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The need for Explainable AI is increasing with the development of deep learning. The saliency maps derived from convolutional neural networks generally fail in localizing with accuracy the image features justifying the network prediction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Alexandre Englebert , Olivier Cornu , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

Explainability is an essential reason limiting the application of neural networks in many vital fields. Although neuro-symbolic AI hopes to enhance the overall explainability by leveraging the transparency of symbolic learning, the results…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Xin Zhang , Victor S. Sheng

Remote sensing change captioning is an emerging and popular research task that aims to describe, in natural language, the content of interest that has changed between two remote sensing images captured at different times. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Futian Wang , Mengqi Wang , Xiao Wang , Haowen Wang , Jin Tang

Explainable Artificial Intelligence has gained significant attention due to the widespread use of complex deep learning models in high-stake domains such as medicine, finance, and autonomous cars. However, different explanations often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Weronika Hryniewska-Guzik , Luca Longo , Przemysław Biecek

With the proliferation of image-based applications in various domains, the need for accurate and interpretable image similarity measures has become increasingly critical. Existing image similarity models often lack transparency, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ioannis E. Livieris , Emmanuel Pintelas , Niki Kiriakidou , Panagiotis Pintelas

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are known for their ability to learn hierarchical structures, naturally developing detectors for objects, and semantic concepts within their deeper layers. Activation maps (AMs) reveal these saliency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Aray Karjauv , Sahin Albayrak

Visualizing the features captured by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is one of the conventional approaches to interpret the predictions made by these models in numerous image recognition applications. Grad-CAM is a popular solution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Sam Sattarzadeh , Mahesh Sudhakar , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Yeonjeong Jeong , Hyunwoo Kim

Ever more robust, accurate and detailed mapping using visual sensing has proven to be an enabling factor for mobile robots across a wide variety of applications. For the next level of robot intelligence and intuitive user interaction, maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-29 John McCormac , Ankur Handa , Andrew Davison , Stefan Leutenegger

Increasing demands for understanding the internal behavior of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to remarkable improvements in explanation methods. Particularly, several class activation mapping (CAM) based methods, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hyungsik Jung , Youngrock Oh

Automatic photo aesthetic assessment is a challenging artificial intelligence task. Existing computational approaches have focused on modeling a single aesthetic score or a class (good or bad), however these do not provide any details on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Gautam Malu , Raju S. Bapi , Bipin Indurkhya

Automated detection of new, interesting, unusual, or anomalous images within large data sets has great value for applications from surveillance (e.g., airport security) to science (observations that don't fit a given theory can lead to new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Kiri L. Wagstaff , Jake Lee

Neural networks have greatly boosted performance in computer vision by learning powerful representations of input data. The drawback of end-to-end training for maximal overall performance are black-box models whose hidden representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Björn Ommer

The apparent ``black box'' nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where explainability is essential. This paper presents TAME (Trainable Attention Mechanism for Explanations), a method for generating explanation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mariano Ntrougkas , Nikolaos Gkalelis , Vasileios Mezaris

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

Network interpretation as an effort to reveal the features learned by a network remains largely visualization-based. In this paper, our goal is to tackle semantic network interpretation at both filter and decision level. For filter-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pei Guo , Ryan Farrell

Explanations of an AI's function can assist human decision-makers, but the most useful explanation depends on the decision's context, referred to as the downstream task. User studies are necessary to determine the best explanations for each…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Eura Nofshin , Esther Brown , Brian Lim , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models for computer vision are powerful but lack explainability in their most basic form. This deficiency remains a key challenge when applying CNNs in important domains. Recent work on explanations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ruihan Zhang , Prashan Madumal , Tim Miller , Krista A. Ehinger , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Understanding how cities visually differ from each others is interesting for planners, residents, and historians. We investigate the interpretation of deep features learned by convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for city recognition. Given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Xiangwei Shi , Seyran Khademi , Jan van Gemert

Explaining the prediction of deep neural networks (DNNs) and semantic image compression are two active research areas of deep learning with a numerous of applications in decision-critical systems, such as surveillance cameras, drones and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Xiang Li , Shihao Ji

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across domains but remain difficult to interpret, limiting their trustworthiness in high-stakes applications. This paper focuses on deep vision models, for which a dominant line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Qiming Zhao , Xingjian Li , Xiaoyu Cao , Xiaolong Wu , Min Xu