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While deep learning has been successfully applied to the data-driven classification of anomalous diffusion mechanisms, how the algorithm achieves the feat still remains a mystery. In this study, we use a well-known technique aimed at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jaeyong Bae , Yongjoo Baek , Hawoong Jeong

The notion of adversarial attacks on image classification models based on convolutional neural networks (CNN) is introduced in this work. To classify images, deep learning models called CNNs are frequently used. However, when the networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jaydip Sen , Abhiraj Sen , Ananda Chatterjee

As deep learning continues to advance, the transparency of neural network decision-making remains a critical challenge, limiting trust and applicability in high-stakes domains. Class Activation Mapping (CAM) techniques have emerged as a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hongjie He , Xu Pan , Yudong Yao

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

Class activation mapping (CAM) is a widely adopted class of saliency methods used to explain the behavior of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These methods generate heatmaps that highlight the parts of the input most relevant to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Alejandro Luque-Cerpa , Elizabeth Polgreen , Ajitha Rajan , Hazem Torfah

Given their substantial success in addressing a wide range of computer vision challenges, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are increasingly being used in smart home applications, with many of these applications relying on the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Utku Ozbulak , Baptist Vandersmissen , Azarakhsh Jalalvand , Ivo Couckuyt , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve

Deep Learning (DL) and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used in various domains. However, adversarial attacks can easily mislead a neural network and lead to wrong decisions. Defense mechanisms are highly preferred in safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wenkai Tan , Justus Renkhoff , Alvaro Velasquez , Ziyu Wang , Lusi Li , Jian Wang , Shuteng Niu , Fan Yang , Yongxin Liu , Houbing Song

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

As the request for deep learning solutions increases, the need for explainability is even more fundamental. In this setting, particular attention has been given to visualization techniques, that try to attribute the right relevance to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Samuele Poppi , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Despite the tremendous success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision, the mechanism of CNNs still lacks clear interpretation. Currently, class activation mapping (CAM), a famous visualization technique to interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Zhenpeng Feng , Hongbing Ji , Milos Dakovic , Xiyang Cui , Mingzhe Zhu , Ljubisa Stankovic

Post-hoc explanation methods, e.g., Grad-CAM, enable humans to inspect the spatial regions responsible for a particular network decision. However, it is shown that such explanations are not always consistent with human priors, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Vipin Pillai , Soroush Abbasi Koohpayegani , Ashley Ouligian , Dennis Fong , Hamed Pirsiavash

Gaining insight into how deep convolutional neural network models perform image classification and how to explain their outputs have been a concern to computer vision researchers and decision makers. These deep models are often referred to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Daniel Omeiza , Skyler Speakman , Celia Cintas , Komminist Weldermariam

Lack of explainability in artificial intelligence, specifically deep neural networks, remains a bottleneck for implementing models in practice. Popular techniques such as Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad-CAM) provide a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Amil Dravid , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

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

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

We present a simple yet highly generalizable method for explaining interacting parts within a neural network's reasoning process. First, we design an algorithm based on cross derivatives for computing statistical interaction effects between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Samuel Lerman , Chenliang Xu , Charles Venuto , Henry Kautz

Deep neural networks are ubiquitous due to the ease of developing models and their influence on other domains. At the heart of this progress is convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that are capable of learning representations or features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Mohammed Bany Muhammad , Mohammed Yeasin

We present Gradient Activation Maps (GAM) - a machinery for explaining predictions made by visual similarity and classification models. By gleaning localized gradient and activation information from multiple network layers, GAM offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Oren Barkan , Omri Armstrong , Amir Hertz , Avi Caciularu , Ori Katz , Itzik Malkiel , Noam Koenigstein

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

Instead of using current deep-learning segmentation models (like the UNet and variants), we approach the segmentation problem using trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) classifiers, which automatically extract important features from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Shuyue Guan , Murray Loew