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A major prerequisite for the application of machine learning models in clinical decision making is trust and interpretability. Current explainability studies in the neuroimaging community have mostly focused on explaining individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Fabian Eitel , Anna Melkonyan , Kerstin Ritter

In recent years, deep learning has become prevalent to solve applications from multiple domains. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) particularly have demonstrated state of the art performance for the task of image classification. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Meghna P Ayyar , Jenny Benois-Pineau , Akka Zemmari

Counterfactual explanation methods have recently received significant attention for explaining CNN-based image classifiers due to their ability to provide easily understandable explanations that align more closely with human reasoning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Syed Ali Tariq , Tehseen Zia

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) define the current state-of-the-art for image recognition. With their emerging popularity, especially for critical applications like medical image analysis or self-driving cars, confirmability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Keyang Zhou , Bernhard Kainz

Our main contribution is to show that the behaviour of kernels across multiple layers of a convolutional neural network can be approximated using a logic program. The extracted logic programs yield accuracies that correlate with those of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Joe Townsend , Theodoros Kasioumis , Hiroya Inakoshi

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are increasingly being used in critical systems, where robustness and alignment are crucial. In this context, the field of explainable artificial intelligence has proposed the generation of high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Andres Felipe Posada-Moreno , Nikita Surya , Sebastian Trimpe

We introduce Discovering Conceptual Network Explanations (DCNE), a new approach for generating human-comprehensible visual explanations to enhance the interpretability of deep neural image classifiers. Our method automatically finds visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Neehar Kondapaneni , Markus Marks , Oisin Mac Aodha , Pietro Perona

Concept-driven counterfactuals explain decisions of classifiers by altering the model predictions through semantic changes. In this paper, we present a novel approach that leverages cross-modal decompositionality and image-specific concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Alina Elena Baia , Andrea Cavallaro

The success of recent deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) depends on learning hidden representations that can summarize the important factors of variation behind the data. However, CNNs often criticized as being black boxes that lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Bolei Zhou , David Bau , Aude Oliva , Antonio Torralba

Explaining deep neural networks is challenging, due to their large size and non-linearity. In this paper, we introduce a concept-based explanation method, in order to explain the prediction for an individual class, as well as contrasting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Rudolf Herdt , Daniel Otero Baguer

Using attention weights to identify information that is important for models' decision-making is a popular approach to interpret attention-based neural networks. This is commonly realized in practice through the generation of a heat-map for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Tian Shi , Xuchao Zhang , Ping Wang , Chandan K. Reddy

Explainability of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) is an important research topic that tries to uncover the reasons behind a DCNN model's decisions and improve their understanding and reliability in high-risk environments. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Syed Ali Tariq , Tehseen Zia , Mubeen Ghafoor

During the last decade, deep neural networks (DNN) have demonstrated impressive performances solving a wide range of problems in various domains such as medicine, finance, law, etc. Despite their great performances, they have long been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jiechieu Kameni Florentin Flambeau , Tsopze Norbert

To equip Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with explainability, it is essential to interpret how opaque models take specific decisions, understand what causes the errors, improve the architecture design, and identify unethical biases in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi , Mona Ashtari-Majlan , Gereziher Adhane , David Masip

In this paper, we propose a method for image-set classification based on convex cone models, focusing on the effectiveness of convolutional neural network (CNN) features as inputs. CNN features have non-negative values when using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Naoya Sogi , Taku Nakayama , Kazuhiro Fukui

The impressive performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when solving different vision problems is shadowed by their black-box nature and our consequent lack of understanding of the representations they build and how these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Ivet Rafegas , Maria Vanrell , Luis A. Alexandre , Guillem Arias

Neural networks for computer vision extract uninterpretable features despite achieving high accuracy on benchmarks. In contrast, humans can explain their predictions using succinct and intuitive descriptions. To incorporate explainability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Khalid Saifullah , Yuxin Wen , Jonas Geiping , Micah Goldblum , Tom Goldstein

Understanding why a classification model prefers one class over another for an input instance is the challenge of contrastive explanation. This work implements concept-based contrastive explanations for image classification by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuliia Kaidashova , Bettina Finzel , Ute Schmid

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the cutting edge model for supervised machine learning in computer vision. In recent years CNNs have outperformed traditional approaches in many computer vision tasks such as object detection, image…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Nitzan Guberman

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular type of computer model that have proven their worth in many computer vision tasks. Moreover, they form an interesting study object for the field of psychology, with shown correspondences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Laurent Mertens , Elahe' Yargholi , Laura Van Hove , Hans Op de Beeck , Jan Van den Stock , Joost Vennekens