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Recently, many researches employ middle-layer output of convolutional neural network models (CNN) as features for different visual recognition tasks. Although promising results have been achieved in some empirical studies, such type of…

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Despite Convolutional Neural Networks having reached human-level performance in some medical tasks, their clinical use has been hindered by their lack of interpretability. Two major interpretability strategies have been proposed to tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 José Pereira Amorim , Pedro Henriques Abreu , João Santos , Henning Müller

Subset selection-based methods are widely used to explain deep vision models: they attribute predictions by highlighting the most influential image regions and support object-level explanations. While these methods perform well in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Madhav Gupta , Vishak Prasad C , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

Interpretability is essential for machine learning algorithms in high-stakes application fields such as medical image analysis. However, high-performing black-box neural networks do not provide explanations for their predictions, which can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Susu Sun , Stefano Woerner , Andreas Maier , Lisa M. Koch , Christian F. Baumgartner

With the remarkable success of deep neural networks, there is a growing interest in research aimed at providing clear interpretations of their decision-making processes. In this paper, we introduce Attribution Equilibrium, a novel method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Woo-Jeoung Nam , Seong-Whan Lee

The interpretability of machine learning models has gained increasing attention, particularly in scientific domains where high precision and accountability are crucial. This research focuses on distinguishing between two critical data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Jiajun Zhu , Siqi Miao , Rex Ying , Pan Li

Saliency methods provide post-hoc model interpretation by attributing input features to the model outputs. Current methods mainly achieve this using a single input sample, thereby failing to answer input-independent inquiries about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Naveed Akhtar , Mohammad A. A. K. Jalwana

Explainable AI aims to render model behavior understandable by humans, which can be seen as an intermediate step in extracting causal relations from correlative patterns. Due to the high risk of possible fatal decisions in image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Lukas Klein , João B. S. Carvalho , Mennatallah El-Assady , Paolo Penna , Joachim M. Buhmann , Paul F. Jaeger

Understanding how deep neural networks make decisions is crucial for analyzing their behavior and diagnosing failure cases. In computer vision, a common approach to improve interpretability is to assign importance to individual pixels using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kagan Ozturk , Aman Bhatta , Haiyu Wu , Patrick Flynn , Kevin W. Bowyer

While large text-to-image models are able to synthesize "novel" images, these images are necessarily a reflection of the training data. The problem of data attribution in such models -- which of the images in the training set are most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Sheng-Yu Wang , Alexei A. Efros , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang

We study the attribution problem [28] for deep networks applied to perception tasks. For vision tasks, attribution techniques attribute the prediction of a network to the pixels of the input image. We propose a new technique called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Shawn Xu , Subhashini Venugopalan , Mukund Sundararajan

Deep learning (DL) has revolutionized the field of document image analysis, showcasing superhuman performance across a diverse set of tasks. However, the inherent black-box nature of deep learning models still presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Saifullah Saifullah , Stefan Agne , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Deep neural networks have demonstrated remarkable performance across various domains, yet their decision-making processes remain opaque. Although many explanation methods are dedicated to bringing the obscurity of DNNs to light, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Kanglong Fan , Yunqiao Yang , Chen Ma

Attribution methods reveal which input features a neural network uses for a prediction, adding transparency to their decisions. A common problem is that these attributions seem unspecific, highlighting both important and irrelevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Nils Philipp Walter , Jilles Vreeken , Jonas Fischer

Deep neural networks, while powerful for image classification, often operate as "black boxes," complicating the understanding of their decision-making processes. Various explanation methods, particularly those generating saliency maps, aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Tristan Gomez , Harold Mouchère

Deep computer vision systems being vulnerable to imperceptible and carefully crafted noise have raised questions regarding the robustness of their decisions. We take a step back and approach this problem from an orthogonal direction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Sadaf Gulshad , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Arnold Smeulders , Zeynep Akata

The proliferation of complex, black-box AI models has intensified the need for techniques that can explain their decisions. Feature attribution methods have become a popular solution for providing post-hoc explanations, yet the field has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xinpeng Li , Kai Ming Ting

The recent explosive growth in Deep Neural Networks applications raises concerns about the black-box usage of such models, with limited trasparency and trustworthiness in high-stakes domains, which have been crystallized as regulatory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lorenzo Capelli , Leandro de Souza Rosa , Gianluca Setti , Mauro Mangia , Riccardo Rovatti

Attribution algorithms are essential for enhancing the interpretability and trustworthiness of deep learning models by identifying key features driving model decisions. Existing frameworks, such as InterpretDL and OmniXAI, integrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhiyu Zhu , Jiayu Zhang , Zhibo Jin , Fang Chen , Jianlong Zhou

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