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In this paper we introduce a new problem within the growing literature of interpretability for convolution neural networks (CNNs). While previous work has focused on the question of how to visually interpret CNNs, we ask what it is that we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Sílvia Casacuberta , Esra Suel , Seth Flaxman

Over the last decade, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have been highly successful in solving complex vision problems. However, these deep models are perceived as "black box" methods considering the lack of understanding of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Aditya Chattopadhyay , Anirban Sarkar , Prantik Howlader , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

We attempt to interpret how adversarially trained convolutional neural networks (AT-CNNs) recognize objects. We design systematic approaches to interpret AT-CNNs in both qualitative and quantitative ways and compare them with normally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Tianyuan Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu

Deep learning, in particular Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), has achieved promising results in face recognition recently. However, it remains an open question: why CNNs work well and how to design a 'good' architecture. The existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Guosheng Hu , Yongxin Yang , Dong Yi , Josef Kittler , William Christmas , Stan Z. Li , Timothy Hospedales

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance on image denoising with the help of large-scale datasets. Earlier methods naively trained a single CNN with many pairs of clean-noisy images. However, the conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-05 Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

Humans rely heavily on shape information to recognize objects. Conversely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are biased more towards texture. This is perhaps the main reason why CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ali Borji

Deep learning has become a powerful tool for medical image analysis; however, conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) often fail to capture the fine-grained and complex features critical for accurate diagnosis. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zahid Ullah , Minki Hong , Tahir Mahmood , Jihie Kim

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are pivotal in image classification tasks due to their robust feature extraction capabilities. However, their high computational and memory requirements pose challenges for deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nathan Isong

Image classification is a fundamental task in computer vision with diverse applications, ranging from autonomous systems to medical imaging. The CIFAR-10 dataset is a widely used benchmark to evaluate the performance of classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Xiaoran Yang , Shuhan Yu , Wenxi Xu

Deep neural networks are representation learning techniques. During training, a deep net is capable of generating a descriptive language of unprecedented size and detail in machine learning. Extracting the descriptive language coded within…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Ferran Parés , Armand Vilalta , Jonatan Moreno , Eduard Ayguadé , Jesús Labarta , Ulises Cortés , Toyotaro Suzumura

This study explores the impact of adversarial perturbations on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the aim of enhancing the understanding of their underlying mechanisms. Despite numerous defense methods proposed in the literature,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Davide Coppola , Hwee Kuan Lee

Deep learning algorithms have been known to be vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in various tasks such as image classification. This problem was addressed by employing several defense methods for detection and rejection of particular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zhun Sun , Mete Ozay , Takayuki Okatani

Graph learning is currently dominated by graph kernels, which, while powerful, suffer some significant limitations. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) offer a very appealing alternative, but processing graphs with CNNs is not trivial. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Antoine Jean-Pierre Tixier , Giannis Nikolentzos , Polykarpos Meladianos , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve strong image classification performance but lack interpretability and are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Neuro-fuzzy hybrids such as DCNFIS replace fully connected CNN classifiers with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kaaustaaub Shankar , Bharadwaj Dogga , Kelly Cohen

ConvNets and Imagenet have driven the recent success of deep learning for image classification. However, the marked slowdown in performance improvement combined with the lack of robustness of neural networks to adversarial examples and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pierre Stock , Moustapha Cisse

Currently, many theoretical as well as practically relevant questions towards the transferability and robustness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) remain unsolved. While ongoing research efforts are engaging these problems from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Paul Gavrikov , Janis Keuper

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) currently achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in image classification. With a growing number of classes, the accuracy usually drops as the possibilities of confusion increase. Interestingly, the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bilal Alsallakh , Amin Jourabloo , Mao Ye , Xiaoming Liu , Liu Ren

Important insights towards the explainability of neural networks reside in the characteristics of their decision boundaries. In this work, we borrow tools from the field of adversarial robustness, and propose a new perspective that relates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Guillermo Ortiz-Jimenez , Apostolos Modas , Seyed-Mohsen Moosavi-Dezfooli , Pascal Frossard

We propose a novel method that trains a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate visual interpretations of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). To comprehend a CNN, the GAN is trained with information on how the CNN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 R T Akash Guna , Raul Benitez , O K Sikha

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have made significant advancement, however, they are widely known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial training is the most widely used technique for improving adversarial robustness to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon