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This paper presents a novel concept learning framework for enhancing model interpretability and performance in visual classification tasks. Our approach appends an unsupervised explanation generator to the primary classifier network and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Tanmay Garg , Deepika Vemuri , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Masking strategies commonly employed in natural language processing are still underexplored in vision tasks such as concept learning, where conventional methods typically rely on full images. However, using masked images diversifies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yuwei Sun , Lu Mi , Ippei Fujisawa , Ruiqiao Mei , Jimin Chen , Siyu Zhu , Ryota Kanai

Capsule networks are a type of neural network that identify image parts and form the instantiation parameters of a whole hierarchically. The goal behind the network is to perform an inverse computer graphics task, and the network parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Saeid Abbassi , Kamaledin Ghiasi-Shirazi , Ahad Harati

Identifying meaningful concepts in large data sets can provide valuable insights into engineering design problems. Concept identification aims at identifying non-overlapping groups of design instances that are similar in a joint space of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Felix Lanfermann , Sebastian Schmitt , Patricia Wollstadt

Prototypical part network (ProtoPNet) has drawn wide attention and boosted many follow-up studies due to its self-explanatory property for explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). However, when directly applying ProtoPNet on vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Mengqi Xue , Qihan Huang , Haofei Zhang , Jingwen Hu , Jie Song , Mingli Song , Canghong Jin

Explaining predictions of black-box neural networks is crucial when applied to decision-critical tasks. Thus, attribution maps are commonly used to identify important image regions, despite prior work showing that humans prefer explanations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Tom Nuno Wolf , Fabian Bongratz , Anne-Marie Rickmann , Sebastian Pölsterl , Christian Wachinger

In this paper, we address the task of learning novel visual concepts, and their interactions with other concepts, from a few images with sentence descriptions. Using linguistic context and visual features, our method is able to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Junhua Mao , Wei Xu , Yi Yang , Jiang Wang , Zhiheng Huang , Alan Yuille

The ability to learn new visual concepts from limited examples is a hallmark of human cognition. While traditional category learning models represent each example as an unstructured feature vector, compositional concept learning is thought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Andrew Jun Lee , Taylor Webb , Trevor Bihl , Keith Holyoak , Hongjing Lu

Inference of correspondences between images from different modalities is an extremely important perceptual ability that enables humans to understand and recognize cross-modal concepts. In this paper, we consider an instance of this problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Chen Liu , Jiajun Wu , Pushmeet Kohli , Yasutaka Furukawa

Interpretability is essential for deploying object detection systems in critical applications, especially under low-quality imaging conditions that degrade visual information and increase prediction uncertainty. Existing methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jianlin Xiang , Linhui Dai , Xue Yang , Chaolei Yang , Yanshan Li

Deep learning models achieve remarkable predictive performance, yet their black-box nature limits transparency and trustworthiness. Although numerous explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods have been proposed, they primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jiarui Li , Zixiang Yin , Samuel J Landry , Zhengming Ding , Ramgopal R. Mettu

Prototypical network for Few shot learning tries to learn an embedding function in the encoder that embeds images with similar features close to one another in the embedding space. However, in this process, the support set samples for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Manas Gogoi , Sambhavi Tiwari , Shekhar Verma

Contrastive self-supervised learning (CSL) with a prototypical regularization has been introduced in learning meaningful representations for downstream tasks that require strong semantic information. However, to optimize CSL with a loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Shentong Mo , Zhun Sun , Chao Li

Interpretability is a key requirement for the use of machine learning models in high-stakes applications, including medical diagnosis. Explaining black-box models mostly relies on post-hoc methods that do not faithfully reflect the model's…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Kerol Djoumessi , Bubacarr Bah , Laura Kühlewein , Philipp Berens , Lisa Koch

Image memorability refers to the phenomenon where certain images are more likely to be remembered than others. It is a quantifiable and intrinsic image attribute, defined as the likelihood of an image being remembered upon a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Elham Bagheri , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual features on which they base their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Stefan Scholz , Nils B. Weidmann , Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld , Eda Keremoğlu , Bastian Goldlücke

While previous researches in eye fixation prediction typically rely on integrating low-level features (e.g. color, edge) to form a saliency map, recently it has been found that the structural organization of these features into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Chengyao Shen , Xun Huang , Qi Zhao

We introduce provenance networks, a novel class of neural models designed to provide end-to-end, training-data-driven explainability. Unlike conventional post-hoc methods, provenance networks learn to link each prediction directly to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ali Kayyam , Anusha Madan Gopal , M. Anthony Lewis

We consider a class of visual analogical reasoning problems that involve discovering the sequence of transformations by which pairs of input/output images are related, so as to analogously transform future inputs. This program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Atharv Sonwane , Gautam Shroff , Lovekesh Vig , Ashwin Srinivasan , Tirtharaj Dash

To build intelligent machine learning systems, there are two broad approaches. One approach is to build inherently interpretable models, as endeavored by the growing field of causal representation learning. The other approach is to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Goutham Rajendran , Simon Buchholz , Bryon Aragam , Bernhard Schölkopf , Pradeep Ravikumar