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We describe an explainable AI saliency map method for use with deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) that is much more efficient than popular fine-resolution gradient methods. It is also quantitatively similar or better in accuracy. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 T. Nathan Mundhenk , Barry Y. Chen , Gerald Friedland

An important line of research attempts to explain CNN image classifier predictions and intermediate layer representations in terms of human-understandable concepts. Previous work supports that deep representations are linearly separable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Alexandros Doumanoglou , Stylianos Asteriadis , Dimitrios Zarpalas

This paper proposes a method to modify traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) into interpretable CNNs, in order to clarify knowledge representations in high conv-layers of CNNs. In an interpretable CNN, each filter in a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Quanshi Zhang , Ying Nian Wu , Song-Chun Zhu

Explaining recommendations enables users to understand whether recommended items are relevant to their needs and has been shown to increase their trust in the system. More generally, if designing explainable machine learning models is key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Darius Afchar , Romain Hennequin

Applying traditional post-hoc attribution methods to segmentation or object detection predictors offers only limited insights, as the obtained feature attribution maps at input level typically resemble the models' predicted segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Maximilian Dreyer , Reduan Achtibat , Thomas Wiegand , Wojciech Samek , Sebastian Lapuschkin

As machine learning algorithms are increasingly applied to high impact yet high risk tasks, such as medical diagnosis or autonomous driving, it is critical that researchers can explain how such algorithms arrived at their predictions. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ruth Fong , Andrea Vedaldi

We propose an online visual tracking algorithm by learning discriminative saliency map using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Given a CNN pre-trained on a large-scale image repository in offline, our algorithm takes outputs from hidden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Seunghoon Hong , Tackgeun You , Suha Kwak , Bohyung Han

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

Predicting salient regions in natural images requires the detection of objects that are present in a scene. To develop robust representations for this challenging task, high-level visual features at multiple spatial scales must be extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Alexander Kroner , Mario Senden , Kurt Driessens , Rainer Goebel

A major challenge in Explainable AI is in correctly interpreting activations of hidden neurons: accurate interpretations would help answer the question of what a deep learning system internally detects as relevant in the input, demystifying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Abhilekha Dalal , Rushrukh Rayan , Adrita Barua , Eugene Y. Vasserman , Md Kamruzzaman Sarker , Pascal Hitzler

Most existing interpretable methods explain a black-box model in a post-hoc manner, which uses simpler models or data analysis techniques to interpret the predictions after the model is learned. However, they (a) may derive contradictory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Mengzhuo Guo , Qingpeng Zhang , Xiuwu Liao , Daniel Dajun Zeng

The purpose of feature extraction on convolutional neural networks is to reuse deep representations learnt for a pre-trained model to solve a new, potentially unrelated problem. However, raw feature extraction from all layers is unfeasible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Armand Vilalta , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Jesus Labarta , Eduard Ayguadé

The performance of convolutional neural networks has continued to improve over the last decade. At the same time, as model complexity grows, it becomes increasingly more difficult to explain model decisions. Such explanations may be of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Colton Crum , Patrick Tinsley , Aidan Boyd , Jacob Piland , Christopher Sweet , Timothy Kelley , Kevin Bowyer , Adam Czajka

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence used for scientific applications, the ability of attribute a result to a reasoning process from the network is in high demand for robust scientific generalizations to hold. In this work…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-09-18 Margaret Voetberg , Vitor F. Grizzi , Giuseppe Cerati , Hadi Meidani , V Hewes

Conventionally, AI models are thought to trade off explainability for lower accuracy. We develop a training strategy that not only leads to a more explainable AI system for object classification, but as a consequence, suffers no perceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Andrea Zunino , Sarah Adel Bargal , Riccardo Volpi , Mehrnoosh Sameki , Jianming Zhang , Stan Sclaroff , Vittorio Murino , Kate Saenko

By highlighting the regions of the input image that contribute the most to the decision, saliency maps have become a popular method to make neural networks interpretable. In medical imaging, they are particularly well-suited to explain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Kaifeng Zou , Sylvain Faisan , Fabrice Heitz , Marie Epain , Pierre Croisille , Laurent Fanton , Sébastien Valette

Explaining deep learning models is of vital importance for understanding artificial intelligence systems, improving safety, and evaluating fairness. To better understand and control the CNN model, many methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Zhihao Wang , Chuang Zhu

There have been several post-hoc explanation approaches developed to explain pre-trained black-box neural networks. However, there is still a gap in research efforts toward designing neural networks that are inherently explainable. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Subash Khanal , Benjamin Brodie , Xin Xing , Ai-Ling Lin , Nathan Jacobs

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are nowadays the model of choice in Computer Vision, thanks to their ability to automatize the feature extraction process in visual tasks. However, the knowledge acquired during training is fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Francesco Dibitonto , Fabio Garcea , André Panisson , Alan Perotti , Lia Morra

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