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Convolutional neural networks have become state-of-the-art in a wide range of image recognition tasks. The interpretation of their predictions, however, is an active area of research. Whereas various interpretation methods have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Kira Vinogradova , Alexandr Dibrov , Gene Myers

One-shot semantic image segmentation aims to segment the object regions for the novel class with only one annotated image. Recent works adopt the episodic training strategy to mimic the expected situation at testing time. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Tao Chen , Guosen Xie , Yazhou Yao , Qiong Wang , Fumin Shen , Zhenmin Tang , Jian Zhang

In time-series domains where both predictive performance and interpretability are essential, deep neural networks achieve strong results but provide limited insight into how their predictions are made. Projection-based prototype networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Steven Song , Sahil Sethi , Brett Beaulieu-Jones , Robert L. Grossman

Image classification is an essential part of computer vision which assigns a given input image to a specific category based on the similarity evaluation within given criteria. While promising classifiers can be obtained through deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Emma Andrews , Prabhat Mishra

While deep learning has achieved impressive performance in time series forecasting, it becomes increasingly crucial to understand its decision-making process for building trust in high-stakes scenarios. Existing interpretable models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Ziheng Peng , Shijie Ren , Xinyue Gu , Linxiao Yang , Xiting Wang , Liang Sun

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Quanshi Zhang , Xin Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Huilin Zhou , Song-Chun Zhu

Deep neural networks are susceptible to learn biased models with entangled feature representations, which may lead to subpar performances on various downstream tasks. This is particularly true for under-represented classes, where a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Sanghyeok Chu , Dongwan Kim , Bohyung Han

As machine learning (ML) models and datasets increase in complexity, the demand for methods that enhance explainability and interpretability becomes paramount. Prototypes, by encapsulating essential characteristics within data, offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Orfeas Menis-Mastromichalakis , Giorgos Filandrianos , Jason Liartis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

Learning discriminative global features plays a vital role in semantic segmentation. And most of the existing methods adopt stacks of local convolutions or non-local blocks to capture long-range context. However, due to the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Lin Song , Yanwei Li , Zeming Li , Gang Yu , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Prototypical part networks offer interpretable alternatives to black-box deep learning models by learning visual prototypes for classification. This work provides a comprehensive analysis of prototype formulations, comparing point-based and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Maximilian Xiling Li , Korbinian Franz Rudolf , Paul Mattes , Nils Blank , Rudolf Lioutikov

Semantic image segmentation is an important computer vision task that is difficult because it consists of both recognition and segmentation. The task is often cast as a structured output problem on an exponentially large output-space, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Payman Yadollahpour

We present a framework for efficient perceptual inference that explicitly reasons about the segmentation of its inputs and features. Rather than being trained for any specific segmentation, our framework learns the grouping process in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Klaus Greff , Antti Rasmus , Mathias Berglund , Tele Hotloo Hao , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Harri Valpola

Segmenting 3D objects into parts is a long-standing challenge in computer vision. To overcome taxonomy constraints and generalize to unseen 3D objects, recent works turn to open-world part segmentation. These approaches typically transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhe Zhu , Le Wan , Rui Xu , Yiheng Zhang , Honghua Chen , Zhiyang Dou , Cheng Lin , Yuan Liu , Mingqiang Wei

Semantic segmentation, which aims to classify every pixel in an image, is a key task in machine perception, with many applications across robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the high dimensionality of this task, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Alex Zihao Zhu , Jieru Mei , Siyuan Qiao , Hang Yan , Yukun Zhu , Liang-Chieh Chen , Henrik Kretzschmar

Interpretable entity representations (IERs) are sparse embeddings that are "human-readable" in that dimensions correspond to fine-grained entity types and values are predicted probabilities that a given entity is of the corresponding type.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Diego Garcia-Olano , Yasumasa Onoe , Joydeep Ghosh , Byron C. Wallace

Introducing explicit constraints on the structural predictions has been an effective way to improve the performance of semantic segmentation models. Existing methods are mainly based on insufficient hand-crafted rules that only partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Boxi Wu , Shuai Zhao , Wenqing Chu , Zheng Yang , Deng Cai

Decision-making in complex systems often relies on machine learning models, yet highly accurate models such as XGBoost and neural networks can obscure the reasoning behind their predictions. In operations research applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Gaurav Arwade , Sigurdur Olafsson

Prevalent semantic segmentation solutions, despite their different network designs (FCN based or attention based) and mask decoding strategies (parametric softmax based or pixel-query based), can be placed in one category, by considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Tianfei Zhou , Wenguan Wang , Ender Konukoglu , Luc Van Gool

In this paper, we study the problem of semantic part segmentation for animals. This is more challenging than standard object detection, object segmentation and pose estimation tasks because semantic parts of animals often have similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Jianyu Wang , Alan Yuille

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi