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Deep generative networks have been widely used for learning mappings from a low-dimensional latent space to a high-dimensional data space. In many cases, data transformations are defined by linear paths in this latent space. However, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-06 Marissa Connor , Christopher Rozell

Distributed word vector spaces are considered hard to interpret which hinders the understanding of natural language processing (NLP) models. In this work, we introduce a new method to interpret arbitrary samples from a word vector space. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Robert Schwarzenberg , Lisa Raithel , David Harbecke

Computer-Aided Design (CAD) is widely used for conceptual design and parametric 3D modeling, but typically requires a high level of expertise from designers. To lower the entry barrier and facilitate early-stage CAD modeling, we present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Fengxiao Fan , Jingzhe Ni , Xiaolong Yin , Sirui Wang , Xingyu Lu , Qiang Zou , Ruofeng Tong , Min Tang , Peng Du

Evaluating, explaining, and visualizing high-level concepts in generative models, such as variational autoencoders (VAEs), is challenging in part due to a lack of known prediction classes that are required to generate saliency maps in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Lennart Brocki , Neo Christopher Chung

Convolutional neural network (CNN) models for computer vision are powerful but lack explainability in their most basic form. This deficiency remains a key challenge when applying CNNs in important domains. Recent work on explanations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Ruihan Zhang , Prashan Madumal , Tim Miller , Krista A. Ehinger , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) are powerful deep generative models widely used to represent high-dimensional complex data through a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model, the input data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Laurent Girin , Simon Leglaive , Xiaoyu Bie , Julien Diard , Thomas Hueber , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

We study the problem of how to build a deep learning representation for 3D shape. Deep learning has shown to be very effective in variety of visual applications, such as image classification and object detection. However, it has not been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Zhuotun Zhu , Xinggang Wang , Song Bai , Cong Yao , Xiang Bai

In explainable AI, Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) are typically obtained by training linear classifier probes to detect human-understandable concepts as directions in the activation space of deep neural networks. It is widely assumed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Jacob Lysnæs-Larsen , Marte Eggen , Inga Strümke

Deep learning methods for classifying medical images have demonstrated impressive accuracy in a wide range of tasks but often these models are hard to interpret, limiting their applicability in clinical practice. In this work we introduce a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-13 James R. Clough , Ilkay Oksuz , Esther Puyol-Anton , Bram Ruijsink , Andrew P. King , Julia A. Schnabel

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven highly effective for visual recognition, where learning a universal representation from activations of convolutional layer plays a fundamental problem. In this paper, we present Fisher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) are widely used to model human-understandable concepts as directions within the latent space of neural networks. They are trained by identifying directions from the activations of concept samples to those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Eren Erogullari , Sebastian Lapuschkin , Wojciech Samek , Frederik Pahde

Shape priors have long been known to be effective when reconstructing 3D shapes from noisy or incomplete data. When using a deep-learning based shape representation, this often involves learning a latent representation, which can be either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Patrick M. Jensen , Udaranga Wickramasinghe , Anders B. Dahl , Pascal Fua , Vedrana A. Dahl

Latent representations are the essence of deep generative models and determine their usefulness and power. For latent representations to be useful as generative concept representations, their latent space must support latent space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Daniel T. Chang

We evaluate whether features extracted from the activation of a deep convolutional network trained in a fully supervised fashion on a large, fixed set of object recognition tasks can be re-purposed to novel generic tasks. Our generic tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-10-08 Jeff Donahue , Yangqing Jia , Oriol Vinyals , Judy Hoffman , Ning Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Trevor Darrell

The ability to record activities from hundreds of neurons simultaneously in the brain has placed an increasing demand for developing appropriate statistical techniques to analyze such data. Recently, deep generative models have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 Ding Zhou , Xue-Xin Wei

Human activity understanding with 3D/depth sensors has received increasing attention in multimedia processing and interactions. This work targets on developing a novel deep model for automatic activity recognition from RGB-D videos. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Keze Wang , Xiaolong Wang , Liang Lin , Meng Wang , Wangmeng Zuo

Deep learning based computer vision models are increasingly used by urban planners to support decision making for shaping urban environments. Such models predict how people perceive the urban environment quality in terms of e.g. its safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ruben Sangers , Jan van Gemert , Sander van Cranenburgh

The cornerstone of autonomous vehicles (AV) is a solid perception system, where camera encoders play a crucial role. Existing works usually leverage pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) or Vision Transformers (ViTs) designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Barath Lakshmanan , Joshua Chen , Shiyi Lan , Maying Shen , Zhiding Yu , Jose M. Alvarez

The interpretation of deep neural networks (DNNs) has become a key topic as more and more people apply them to solve various problems and making critical decisions. Concept-based explanations have recently become a popular approach for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Zhenge Zhao , Panpan Xu , Carlos Scheidegger , Liu Ren

A key to deciphering the inner workings of neural networks is understanding what a model has learned. Promising methods for discovering learned features are based on analyzing activation values, whereby current techniques focus on analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Alex Bäuerle , Daniel Jönsson , Timo Ropinski