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This paper reviews recent studies in understanding neural-network representations and learning neural networks with interpretable/disentangled middle-layer representations. Although deep neural networks have exhibited superior performance…

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Transparency and explainability in image classification are essential for establishing trust in machine learning models and detecting biases and errors. State-of-the-art explainability methods generate saliency maps to show where a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Matteo Bianchi , Antonio De Santis , Andrea Tocchetti , Marco Brambilla

Human vision is highly adaptive, efficiently sampling intricate environments by sequentially fixating on task-relevant regions. In contrast, prevailing machine vision models passively process entire scenes at once, resulting in excessive…

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Gradient-based attribution methods can aid in the understanding of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the redundancy of attribution features and the gradient saturation problem, which weaken the ability to identify significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi , Tat-seng Chua , Zehua Chen

In this work, we introduce a Denser Feature Network (DenserNet) for visual localization. Our work provides three principal contributions. First, we develop a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture which aggregates feature maps at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Dongfang Liu , Yiming Cui , Liqi Yan , Christos Mousas , Baijian Yang , Yingjie Chen

Most recent gains in visual recognition have originated from the inclusion of attention mechanisms in deep convolutional networks (DCNs). Because these networks are optimized for object recognition, they learn where to attend using only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Drew Linsley , Dan Shiebler , Sven Eberhardt , Thomas Serre

Ultrasound is a non-invasive imaging modality that can be conveniently used to classify suspicious breast nodules and potentially detect the onset of breast cancer. Recently, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) techniques have shown…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Hamza Rasaee , Hassan Rivaz

We propose a novel attention model that can accurately attends to target objects of various scales and shapes in images. The model is trained to gradually suppress irrelevant regions in an input image via a progressive attentive process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen , Xiaohui Shen , Bohyung Han

Fully automatic detection of skin lesions in dermatoscopic images can facilitate early diagnosis and repression of malignant melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. Although convolutional neural networks are a powerful solution, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Anindo Saha , Prem Prasad , Abdullah Thabit

We present a novel detection method using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), named AttentionNet. We cast an object detection problem as an iterative classification problem, which is the most suitable form of a CNN. AttentionNet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Donggeun Yoo , Sunggyun Park , Joon-Young Lee , Anthony S. Paek , In So Kweon

Many current methods to interpret convolutional neural networks (CNNs) use visualization techniques and words to highlight concepts of the input seemingly relevant to a CNN's decision. The methods hypothesize that the recognition of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Ning Xie , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Derek Doran , Pascal Hitzler , Michael Raymer

While deep neural networks (DNN) have become an effective computational tool, the prediction results are often criticized by the lack of interpretability, which is essential in many real-world applications such as health informatics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu , Qingquan Song , Xia Hu

Recent convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have led to impressive performance but often suffer from poor calibration. They tend to be overconfident, with the model confidence not always reflecting the underlying true ambiguity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Beidi Chen , Weiyang Liu , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Anshumali Shrivastava , Animesh Garg , Anima Anandkumar

The expansion of explainable artificial intelligence as a field of research has generated numerous methods of visualizing and understanding the black box of a machine learning model. Attribution maps are generally used to highlight the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Ian E. Nielsen , Ravi P. Ramachandran , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Hassan M. Fathallah-Shaykh , Ghulam Rasool

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved great success due to the powerful feature learning ability of convolution layers. Specifically, the standard convolution traverses the input images/features using a sliding window scheme to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yong Guo , Yaofo Chen , Mingkui Tan , Kui Jia , Jian Chen , Jingdong Wang

We present a method for neural network interpretability by combining feature attribution with counterfactual explanations to generate attribution maps that highlight the most discriminative features between pairs of classes. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Nils Eckstein , Alexander S. Bates , Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis , Jan Funke

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have been successfully applied to most relevant tasks in the computer vision community. However, these networks are computationally demanding and not suitable for embedded devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-20 Jose Alvarez , Lars Petersson

We aim to localize objects in images using image-level supervision only. Previous approaches to this problem mainly focus on discriminative object regions and often fail to locate precise object boundaries. We address this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Vadim Kantorov , Maxime Oquab , Minsu Cho , Ivan Laptev

Convolutional Networks have dominated the field of computer vision for the last ten years, exhibiting extremely powerful feature extraction capabilities and outstanding classification performance. The main strategy to prolong this trend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Javier Huertas-Tato , Alejandro Martín , Julián Fierrez , David Camacho

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the predominant approach for learning over graph-structured data. However, most GNNs operate as black-box models and require post-hoc explanations, which may not suffice in high-stakes scenarios…

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