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Although visual foundation models like DINOv2 provide state-of-the-art performance as feature extractors, their complex, high-dimensional representations create substantial hurdles for interpretability. This work proposes DINO-QPM, which…

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The visual representation of a pre-trained model prioritizes the classifiability on downstream tasks, while the widespread applications for pre-trained visual models have posed new requirements for representation interpretability. However,…

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3D point cloud semantic segmentation is one of the fundamental tasks for 3D scene understanding and has been widely used in the metaverse applications. Many recent 3D semantic segmentation methods learn a single prototype (classifier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yangheng Zhao , Jun Wang , Xiaolong Li , Yue Hu , Ce Zhang , Yanfeng Wang , Siheng Chen

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Contrastive learning based vision-language joint pre-training has emerged as a successful representation learning strategy. In this paper, we present a prototype representation learning framework incorporating both global and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Pujin Cheng , Li Lin , Junyan Lyu , Yijin Huang , Wenhan Luo , Xiaoying Tang

In cross-domain few-shot classification (CFC), recent works mainly focus on adapting a simple transformation head on top of a frozen pre-trained backbone with few labeled data to project embeddings into a task-specific metric space where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hongduan Tian , Feng Liu , Zhanke Zhou , Tongliang Liu , Chengqi Zhang , Bo Han

We develop techniques for refining representations for fine-grained classification and segmentation tasks in a self-supervised manner. We find that fine-tuning methods based on instance-discriminative contrastive learning are not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Oindrila Saha , Subhransu Maji

This work presents a new classifier that is specifically designed to be fully interpretable. This technique determines the probability of a class outcome, based directly on probability assignments measured from the training data. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-31 Sapan Agarwal , Corey M. Hudson

Extracting discriminative features plays a crucial role in the fine-grained visual classification task. Most of the existing methods focus on developing attention or augmentation mechanisms to achieve this goal. However, addressing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Tuong Do , Huy Tran , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Anh Nguyen

Availability of an explainable deep learning model that can be applied to practical real world scenarios and in turn, can consistently, rapidly and accurately identify specific and minute traits in applicable fields of biological sciences,…

Recognizing relations between entities is a pivotal task of relational learning. Learning relation representations from distantly-labeled datasets is difficult because of the abundant label noise and complicated expressions in human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ning Ding , Xiaobin Wang , Yao Fu , Guangwei Xu , Rui Wang , Pengjun Xie , Ying Shen , Fei Huang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Rui Zhang

Part-prototype networks have recently become methods of interest as an interpretable alternative to many of the current black-box image classifiers. However, the interpretability of these methods from the perspective of human users has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Omid Davoodi , Shayan Mohammadizadehsamakosh , Majid Komeili

We propose a novel framework for few-shot learning by leveraging large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP. Motivated by unimodal prototypical networks for few-shot learning, we introduce Proto-CLIP which utilizes image prototypes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jishnu Jaykumar P , Kamalesh Palanisamy , Yu-Wei Chao , Xinya Du , Yu Xiang

Purpose: Detailed surgical recognition is critical for advancing AI-assisted surgery, yet progress is hampered by high annotation costs, data scarcity, and a lack of interpretable models. While scene graphs offer a structured abstraction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Felix Holm , Ghazal Ghazaei , Nassir Navab

Decision-making in complex systems often relies on machine learning models, yet highly accurate models such as XGBoost and neural networks can obscure the reasoning behind their predictions. In operations research applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Gaurav Arwade , Sigurdur Olafsson

In safety-critical applications, practitioners are reluctant to trust neural networks when no interpretable explanations are available. Many attempts to provide such explanations revolve around pixel-based attributions or use previously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Armeen Taeb , Nicolo Ruggeri , Carina Schnuck , Fanny Yang

Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) offer a robust and interpretable approach to image classification, making them a promising choice for microscopy image analysis. However, a performance gap remains between NCA and larger, more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chen Yang , Michael Deutges , Jingsong Liu , Han Li , Nassir Navab , Carsten Marr , Ario Sadafi

Models often need to be constrained to a certain size for them to be considered interpretable. For example, a decision tree of depth 5 is much easier to understand than one of depth 50. Limiting model size, however, often reduces accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Abhishek Ghose , Balaraman Ravindran

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

Trust in predictions made by machine learning models is increased if the model generalizes well on previously unseen samples and when inference is accompanied by cogent explanations of the reasoning behind predictions. In the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Edward Verenich , Alvaro Velasquez , Nazar Khan , Faraz Hussain