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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

In this paper, we propose an efficient saliency map generation method, called Group score-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Group-CAM), which adopts the "split-transform-merge" strategy to generate saliency maps. Specifically, for an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Qinglong Zhang , Lu Rao , Yubin Yang

Techniques for generating saliency maps continue to be used for explainability of deep learning models, with efforts primarily applied to the image classification task. Such techniques, however, can also be applied to object detectors, not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Chul Gwon , Steven C. Howell

The black-box nature of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) severely hinders its performance improvement and application in specific scenes. In recent years, class activation mapping-based method has been widely used to interpret the internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chunyan Zeng , Kang Yan , Zhifeng Wang , Yan Yu , Shiyan Xia , Nan Zhao

Saliency Map, the gradient of the score function with respect to the input, is the most basic technique for interpreting deep neural network decisions. However, saliency maps are often visually noisy. Although several hypotheses were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Beomsu Kim , Junghoon Seo , SeungHyun Jeon , Jamyoung Koo , Jeongyeol Choe , Taegyun Jeon

Salient object detection has seen remarkable progress driven by deep learning techniques. However, most of deep learning based salient object detection methods are black-box in nature and lacking in interpretability. This paper proposes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Huaxin Xiao , Jiashi Feng , Yunchao Wei , Maojun Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained prominence for their ability to process graph-structured data across various domains. However, interpreting GNN decisions remains a significant challenge, leading to the adoption of saliency maps for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Shuichi Nishino , Tomohiro Shiraishi , Teruyuki Katsuoka , Ichiro Takeuchi

This paper summarizes our endeavors in the past few years in terms of explaining image classifiers, with the aim of including negative results and insights we have gained. The paper starts with describing the explainable neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Li Fuxin , Zhongang Qi , Saeed Khorram , Vivswan Shitole , Prasad Tadepalli , Minsuk Kahng , Alan Fern

Salient object detection increasingly receives attention as an important component or step in several pattern recognition and image processing tasks. Although a variety of powerful saliency models have been intensively proposed, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Tianshui Chen , Liang Lin , Lingbo Liu , Xiaonan Luo , Xuelong Li

Visual saliency is a fundamental problem in both cognitive and computational sciences, including computer vision. In this CVPR 2015 paper, we discover that a high-quality visual saliency model can be trained with multiscale features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Interpretation and improvement of deep neural networks relies on better understanding of their underlying mechanisms. In particular, gradients of classes or concepts with respect to the input features (e.g., pixels in images) are often used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Lennart Brocki , Neo Christopher Chung

Understanding and interpreting the decisions made by deep learning models is valuable in many domains. In computer vision, computing heatmaps from a deep network is a popular approach for visualizing and understanding deep networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Zhongang Qi , Saeed Khorram , Li Fuxin

Feature maps in deep neural network generally contain different semantics. Existing methods often omit their characteristics that may lead to sub-optimal results. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end deep saliency network which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Fengdong Sun , Wenhui Li , Yuanyuan Guan

In this paper, we propose several novel deep learning methods for object saliency detection based on the powerful convolutional neural networks. In our approach, we use a gradient descent method to iteratively modify an input image based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-07 Hengyue Pan , Bo Wang , Hui Jiang

Deep Neural Networks are powerful tools for understanding complex patterns and making decisions. However, their black-box nature impedes a complete understanding of their inner workings. Saliency-Guided Training (SGT) methods try to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ali Karkehabadi , Houman Homayoun , Avesta Sasan

Saliency methods have been widely used to highlight important input features in model predictions. Most existing methods use backpropagation on a modified gradient function to generate saliency maps. Thus, noisy gradients can result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Héctor Corrada Bravo , Soheil Feizi

The opaque nature of deep learning models remains a significant barrier to their clinical adoption in medical imaging. This paper presents a multimodal explainability framework that bridges the gap between convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Paul Valery Nguezet , Elie Tagne Fute , Yusuf Brima , Benoit Martin Azanguezet , Marcellin Atemkeng

Currently available methods for extracting saliency maps identify parts of the input which are the most important to a specific fixed classifier. We show that this strong dependence on a given classifier hinders their performance. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Konrad Zolna , Krzysztof J. Geras , Kyunghyun Cho

We present a set of metrics that utilize vision priors to effectively assess the performance of saliency methods on image classification tasks. To understand behavior in deep learning models, many methods provide visual saliency maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Rangel Daroya , Aaron Sun , Subhransu Maji

Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Guanbin Li , Yuan Xie , Liang Lin , Yizhou Yu