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Fine-grained image recognition is a longstanding computer vision challenge that focuses on differentiating objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories within the same meta-category. Since images belonging to the same meta-category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Yulin Wang , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Classification networks can be used to localize and segment objects in images by means of class activation maps (CAMs). However, without pixel-level annotations, classification networks are known to (1) mainly focus on discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Arvi Jonnarth , Michael Felsberg

Singh et al. (2020) point out the dangers of contextual bias in visual recognition datasets. They propose two methods, CAM-based and feature-split, that better recognize an object or attribute in the absence of its typical context while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Sharon Zhang , Nicole Meister , Olga Russakovsky

Text features that are correlated with class labels, but do not directly cause them, are sometimesuseful for prediction, but they may not be insightful. As an alternative to traditional correlation-basedfeature selection, causal inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Guohou Shan , James Foulds , Shimei Pan

We present Smooth Grad-CAM++, a technique which combines two recent techniques: SMOOTHGRAD and Grad-CAM++. Smooth Grad-CAM++ has the capability of either visualizing a layer, subset of feature maps, or subset of neurons within a feature map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Daniel Omeiza

In graph classification, attention and pooling-based graph neural networks (GNNs) prevail to extract the critical features from the input graph and support the prediction. They mostly follow the paradigm of learning to attend, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yongduo Sui , Xiang Wang , Jiancan Wu , Min Lin , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

In computed tomography (CT), achieving high image quality while minimizing radiation exposure remains a key clinical challenge. This paper presents CAPRI-CT, a novel causal-aware deep learning framework for Causal Analysis and Predictive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sneha George Gnanakalavathy , Hairil Abdul Razak , Robert Meertens , Jonathan E. Fieldsend , Xujiong Ye , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

Semantic segmentation is an important task in computer vision that is often tackled with convolutional neural networks (CNNs). A CNN learns to produce pixel-level predictions through training on pairs of images and their corresponding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Tianyu Ma , Benjamin C. Lee , Mert R. Sabuncu

Visualizing CNN is an important part in building trust and explaining model's prediction. Methods like CAM and GradCAM have been really successful in localizing area of the image responsible for the output but are only limited to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Mudit Bachhawat

We present a novel technique to discover and exploit weak causal signals directly from images via neural networks for classification purposes. This way, we model how the presence of a feature in one part of the image affects the appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Gianluca Carloni , Sara Colantonio

Instance-level image classification tasks have traditionally relied on single-instance labels to train models, e.g., few-shot learning and transfer learning. However, set-level coarse-grained labels that capture relationships among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Renyu Zhang , Aly A. Khan , Yuxin Chen , Robert L. Grossman

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

The backbone of traditional CNN classifier is generally considered as a feature extractor, followed by a linear layer which performs the classification. We propose a novel loss function, termed as CAM-loss, to constrain the embedded feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Chaofei Wang , Jiayu Xiao , Yizeng Han , Qisen Yang , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Decisions made by convolutional neural networks(CNN) can be understood and explained by visualizing discriminative regions on images. To this end, Class Activation Map (CAM) based methods were proposed as powerful interpretation tools,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Weichuan Zhang

Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad- CAM), is an example-based explanation method that provides a gradient activation heat map as an explanation for Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models. The drawback of this method is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Tanmay Chakraborty , Utkarsh Trehan , Khawla Mallat , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization remains a fundamental challenge in real-world classification, where test distributions often differ substantially from training data. Most existing approaches pursue domain-invariant representations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Chen Cheng , Ang Li

Learning powerful discriminative features for remote sensing image scene classification is a challenging computer vision problem. In the past, most classification approaches were based on handcrafted features. However, most recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Jun Li , Daoyu Lin , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Chibiao Ding

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

Explanation methods facilitate the development of models that learn meaningful concepts and avoid exploiting spurious correlations. We illustrate a previously unrecognized limitation of the popular neural network explanation method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-23 Rachel Lea Draelos , Lawrence Carin

The recent emerged weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) methods can learn to localize an object in the image only using image-level labels. Previous works endeavor to perceive the interval objects from the small and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Li Zhang , Lu Ye , Siliang Tang , Yi Yang , Jun Xiao