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Gradient-based saliency methods are widely used to interpret deep neural networks, yet they often produce noisy and unstable explanations that poorly align with semantically meaningful input features. We argue that a fundamental cause of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ali Karkehabadi , Jamshid Hassanpour , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been successful in machine learning applications. Their success relies on their ability to consider space invariant local features. We consider the use of CNN to fit nuisance models in semiparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-08 Mohammad Ghasempour , Niloofar Moosavi , Xavier de Luna

Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been widely used to solve the illuminant estimation problem and have often led to state-of-the-art results. Standard approaches operate directly on the input image. In this paper, we argue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-11 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Jarno Nikkanen , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Despite the tremendous achievements of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in many computer vision tasks, understanding how they actually work remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose a novel two-step understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Heyi Li , Yunke Tian , Klaus Mueller , Xin Chen

Saliency detection is an important task in image processing as it can solve many problems and it usually is the first step in for other processes. Convolutional neural networks have been proved to be very effective on several image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hooman Misaghi , Reza Askari Moghadam , Ali Mahmoudi , Kurosh Madani

In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network framework embedded with low-level features (LCNN) for salient object detection in complex images. We utilise the advantage of convolutional neural networks to automatically learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hongyang Li , Huchuan Lu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price

This work presents and analyzes three convolutional neural network (CNN) models for efficient pixelwise classification of images. When using convolutional neural networks to classify single pixels in patches of a whole image, a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Fabian Tschopp

Saliency maps have proven to be a highly efficacious approach for explicating the decisions of Convolutional Neural Networks. However, extant methodologies predominantly rely on gradients, which constrain their ability to explicate complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zijian Ying , Qianmu Li , Zhichao Lian , Jun Hou , Tong Lin , Tao Wang

Saliency methods are widely used to interpret neural network predictions, but different variants of saliency methods often disagree even on the interpretations of the same prediction made by the same model. In these cases, how do we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shuoyang Ding , Philipp Koehn

Over the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have been highly successful in solving complex vision problems. However, these deep models are perceived as "black box" methods considering the lack of understanding of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Aditya Chattopadhyay , Anirban Sarkar , Prantik Howlader , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Saliency methods aim to explain the predictions of deep neural networks. These methods lack reliability when the explanation is sensitive to factors that do not contribute to the model prediction. We use a simple and common pre-processing…

Various saliency map methods have been proposed to interpret and explain predictions of deep learning models. Saliency maps allow us to interpret which parts of the input signals have a strong influence on the prediction results. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-09 Daiki Miwa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Ichiro Takeuchi

We propose a new strategy to improve the accuracy and robustness of image classification. First, we train a baseline CNN model. Then, we identify challenging regions in the feature space by identifying all misclassified samples, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Fadoua Khmaissia , Hichem Frigui

Recent experiments in computer vision demonstrate texture bias as the primary reason for supreme results in models employing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), conflicting with early works claiming that these networks identify objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Satyam Mohla , Anshul Nasery , Biplab Banerjee

We investigate the influence of adversarial training on the interpretability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), specifically applied to diagnosing skin cancer. We show that gradient-based saliency maps of adversarially trained CNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Andrei Margeloiu , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik , Adrian Weller

In this paper, we propose to utilize Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and the segmentation-based multi-scale analysis to locate tampered areas in digital images. First, to deal with color input sliding windows of different scales, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Yaqi Liu , Qingxiao Guan , Xianfeng Zhao , Yun Cao

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

Deep Learning, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), has been successful in computer vision tasks and medical image analysis. However, modern CNNs can be overconfident, making them difficult to deploy in real-world scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been recently used for a variety of histology image analysis. However, availability of a large dataset is a major prerequisite for training a CNN which limits its use by the computational pathology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Ruqayya Awan , Navid Alemi Koohbanani , Muhammad Shaban , Anna Lisowska , Nasir Rajpoot