English
Related papers

Related papers: Visual-TCAV: Concept-based Attribution and Salienc…

200 papers

Visual media are powerful means of expressing emotions and sentiments. The constant generation of new content in social networks highlights the need of automated visual sentiment analysis tools. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Victor Campos , Amaia Salvador , Brendan Jou , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have succeeded remarkably in various computer vision tasks. However, they are not intrinsically explainable. While the feature-level understanding of CNNs reveals where the models looked, concept-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ugochukwu Ejike Akpudo , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou , Andrew Lewis

Neural networks deliver impressive predictive performance across a variety of tasks, but they are often opaque in their decision-making processes. Despite a growing interest in mechanistic interpretability, tools for systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ricardo Knauer , Andre Beinrucker , Erik Rodner

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

This paper introduces a visual sentiment concept classification method based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The visual sentiment concepts are adjective noun pairs (ANPs) automatically discovered from the tags of web photos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Tao Chen , Damian Borth , Trevor Darrell , Shih-Fu Chang

Concept-based XAI (C-XAI) approaches to explaining neural vision models are a promising field of research, since explanations that refer to concepts (i.e., semantically meaningful parts in an image) are intuitive to understand and go beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jae Hee Lee , Georgii Mikriukov , Gesina Schwalbe , Stefan Wermter , Diedrich Wolter

Graph convolutional neural network (GCN) has drawn increasing attention and attained good performance in various computer vision tasks, however, there lacks a clear interpretation of GCN's inner mechanism. For standard convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zhenpeng Feng , Xiyang Cui , Hongbing Ji , Mingzhe Zhu , Ljubisa Stankovic

Explainable AI (XAI) has become essential in computer vision to make the decision-making processes of deep learning models transparent. However, current visual explanation (XAI) methods face a critical trade-off between the high fidelity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Gwanghee Lee , Sungyoon Jeong , Kyoungson Jhang

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) offer great machine learning performance over a range of applications, but their operation is hard to interpret, even for experts. Various explanation algorithms have been proposed to address this issue,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Ahmed Alqaraawi , Martin Schuessler , Philipp Weiß , Enrico Costanza , Nadia Berthouze

Neural image/video captioning models can generate accurate descriptions, but their internal process of mapping regions to words is a black box and therefore difficult to explain. Top-down neural saliency methods can find important regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Vasili Ramanishka , Abir Das , Jianming Zhang , Kate Saenko

Modern deep neural networks have now reached human-level performance across a variety of tasks. However, unlike humans they lack the ability to explain their decisions by showing where and telling what concepts guided them. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Itay Benou , Tammy Riklin-Raviv

With the maturity of visual detection techniques, we are more ambitious in describing visual content with open-vocabulary, fine-grained and free-form language, i.e., the task of image captioning. In particular, we are interested in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Zheng-Jun Zha , Daqing Liu , Hanwang Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Feng Wu

With recent advances in deep learning, neuroimaging studies increasingly rely on convolutional networks (ConvNets) to predict diagnosis based on MR images. To gain a better understanding of how a disease impacts the brain, the studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Qingyu Zhao , Ehsan Adeli , Adolf Pfefferbaum , Edith V. Sullivan , Kilian M. Pohl

As an emerging field in Machine Learning, Explainable AI (XAI) has been offering remarkable performance in interpreting the decisions made by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). To achieve visual explanations for CNNs, methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Sam Sattarzadeh , Mahesh Sudhakar , Anthony Lem , Shervin Mehryar , K. N. Plataniotis , Jongseong Jang , Hyunwoo Kim , Yeonjeong Jeong , Sangmin Lee , Kyunghoon Bae

Neural Networks are the state of the art for many tasks in the computer vision domain, including Writer Identification (WI) and Writer Verification (WV). The transparency of these "black box" systems is important for improvements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Viktoria Pundy , Marco Peer , Florian Kleber

Deep neural networks are complex and opaque. As they enter application in a variety of important and safety critical domains, users seek methods to explain their output predictions. We develop an approach to explaining deep neural networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Michael Harradon , Jeff Druce , Brian Ruttenberg

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

Neural network visualization techniques mark image locations by their relevancy to the network's classification. Existing methods are effective in highlighting the regions that affect the resulting classification the most. However, as we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Shir Gur , Ameen Ali , Lior Wolf