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To enhance the intelligence degree in operation and maintenance, a novel method for fault detection in power grids is proposed. The proposed GNN-based approach first identifies fault nodes through a specialized feature extraction method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Hao Pei , Si Lin , Chuanfu Li , Che Wang , Haoming Chen , Sizhe Li

We address a core problem of computer vision: Detection and description of 2D feature points for image matching. For a long time, hand-crafted designs, like the seminal SIFT algorithm, were unsurpassed in accuracy and efficiency. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Aritra Bhowmik , Stefan Gumhold , Carsten Rother , Eric Brachmann

Deep learning approaches have provided state-of-the-art performance in many applications by relying on large and overparameterized neural networks. However, such networks have been shown to be very brittle and are difficult to deploy on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Zhimin Li , Shusen Liu , Xin Yu , Kailkhura Bhavya , Jie Cao , Diffenderfer James Daniel , Peer-Timo Bremer , Valerio Pascucci

The layered structure of deep neural networks hinders the use of numerous analysis tools and thus the development of its interpretability. Inspired by the success of functional brain networks, we propose a novel framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Ben Zhang , Zhetong Dong , Junsong Zhang , Hongwei Lin

This paper proposes a straightforward and cost-effective approach to assess whether a deep neural network (DNN) relies on the primary concepts of training samples or simply learns discriminative, yet simple and irrelevant features that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Mohammad Mahdi Mehmanchi , Mahbod Nouri , Mohammad Sabokrou

''Making black box models explainable'' is a vital problem that accompanies the development of deep learning networks. For networks taking visual information as input, one basic but challenging explanation method is to identify and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhenqiang Li , Weimin Wang , Zuoyue Li , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato

Reliable failure detection holds paramount importance in safety-critical applications. Yet, neural networks are known to produce overconfident predictions for misclassified samples. As a result, it remains a problematic matter as existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kien X. Nguyen , Tang Li , Xi Peng

The performance of machine learning models is determined by the quality of their learned features. They should be invariant under irrelevant data variation but sensitive to task-relevant details. To visualize whether this is the case, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Armand Rousselot , Joran Wendebourg , Ullrich Köthe

Feature Learning aims to extract relevant information contained in data sets in an automated fashion. It is driving force behind the current deep learning trend, a set of methods that have had widespread empirical success. What is lacking…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-02 Brendan van Rooyen , Robert C. Williamson

Understanding the mechanisms underlying deep neural networks remains a fundamental challenge in machine learning and computer vision. One promising, yet only preliminarily explored approach, is feature inversion, which attempts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jan Rathjens , Shirin Reyhanian , David Kappel , Laurenz Wiskott

Generalization, the ability to perform well beyond the training context, is a hallmark of biological and artificial intelligence, yet anticipating unseen failures remains a central challenge. Conventional approaches often take a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Chi-Ning Chou , Artem Kirsanov , Yao-Yuan Yang , SueYeon Chung

With the tremendous success of deep learning in visual tasks, the representations extracted from intermediate layers of learned models, that is, deep features, attract much attention of researchers. Previous empirical analysis shows that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Qi Qian , Juhua Hu , Hao Li

Deep neural networks, albeit their great success on feature learning in various computer vision tasks, are usually considered as impractical for online visual tracking because they require very long training time and a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Hanxi Li , Yi Li , Fatih Porikli

A deraining network can be interpreted as a conditional generator that aims at removing rain streaks from image. Most existing image deraining methods ignore model errors caused by uncertainty that reduces embedding quality. Unlike existing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Chenghao Chen , Hao Li

Despite the popularisation of machine learning models, more often than not, they still operate as black boxes with no insight into what is happening inside the model. There exist a few methods that allow to visualise and explain why a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Błażej Leporowski , Alexandros Iosifidis

AI systems can fail to learn important behaviors, leading to real-world issues like safety concerns and biases. Discovering these systematic failures often requires significant developer attention, from hypothesizing potential edge cases to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Ángel Alexander Cabrera , Abraham J. Druck , Jason I. Hong , Adam Perer

While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mitchell Petingola

While deep learning has led to huge progress in complex image classification tasks like ImageNet, unexpected failure modes, e.g. via spurious features, call into question how reliably these classifiers work in the wild. Furthermore, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Maximilian Augustin , Yannic Neuhaus , Matthias Hein

Features play a crucial role in computer vision. Initially designed to detect salient elements by means of handcrafted algorithms, features are now often learned by different layers in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Loris Nanni , Stefano Ghidoni , Sheryl Brahnam

We introduce algorithms to visualize feature spaces used by object detectors. Our method works by inverting a visual feature back to multiple natural images. We found that these visualizations allow us to analyze object detection systems in…

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