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In image editing, it is essential to incorporate a context image to convey the user's precise requirements, such as subject appearance or image style. Existing training-based visual context-aware editing methods incur data collection effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Rui Song , Guo-Hua Wang , Qing-Guo Chen , Weihua Luo , Tongda Xu , Zhening Liu , Yan Wang , Zehong Lin , Jun Zhang

Explainability for machine learning models has gained considerable attention within the research community given the importance of deploying more reliable machine-learning systems. In computer vision applications, generative counterfactual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Pau Rodriguez , Massimo Caccia , Alexandre Lacoste , Lee Zamparo , Issam Laradji , Laurent Charlin , David Vazquez

When an image classifier outputs a wrong class label, it can be helpful to see what changes in the image would lead to a correct classification. This is the aim of algorithms generating counterfactual explanations. However, there is no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Benedikt Höltgen , Lisa Schut , Jan M. Brauner , Yarin Gal

The image-based diagnosis is now a vital aspect of modern automation assisted diagnosis. To enable models to produce pixel-level diagnosis, pixel-level ground-truth labels are essentially required. However, since it is often not straight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Tehseen Zia , Zeeshan Nisar , Shakeeb Murtaza

Explaining decisions of black-box classifiers is paramount in sensitive domains such as medical imaging since clinicians confidence is necessary for adoption. Various explanation approaches have been proposed, among which perturbation based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Martin Charachon , Céline Hudelot , Paul-Henry Cournède , Camille Ruppli , Roberto Ardon

Artificial intelligence is increasingly leveraged across various domains to automate decision-making processes that significantly impact human lives. In medical image analysis, deep learning models have demonstrated remarkable performance.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Julia Siekiera , Stefan Kramer

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and other generative methods have garnered growing interest not just for their generative properties but also for the ability to dis-entangle a low-dimensional latent variable space. However, few existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sunay Bhat , Jeffrey Jiang , Omead Pooladzandi , Gregory Pottie

With the ongoing rise of machine learning, the need for methods for explaining decisions made by artificial intelligence systems is becoming a more and more important topic. Especially for image classification tasks, many state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Silvan Mertes , Tobias Huber , Katharina Weitz , Alexander Heimerl , Elisabeth André

Adapting text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models (LDMs) to video editing has shown strong visual fidelity and controllability, but challenges remain in maintaining causal relationships inherent to the video data generating process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Nikos Spyrou , Athanasios Vlontzos , Paraskevas Pegios , Thomas Melistas , Nefeli Gkouti , Yannis Panagakis , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Unified video models exhibit strong capabilities in understanding and generation, yet they struggle with reason-informed visual editing even when equipped with powerful internal vision-language models (VLMs). We attribute this gap to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyu Liu , Hangjie Yuan , Yujie Wei , Jiazheng Xing , Yujin Han , Jiahao Pan , Yanbiao Ma , Chi-Min Chan , Kang Zhao , Shiwei Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Rapid improvements in the performance of machine learning models have pushed them to the forefront of data-driven decision-making. Meanwhile, the increased integration of these models into various application domains has further highlighted…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Oscar Gomez , Steffen Holter , Jun Yuan , Enrico Bertini

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) frequently suffer from Object Hallucination (OH), wherein they generate descriptions containing objects that are not actually present in the input image. This phenomenon is particularly problematic in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yanbin Huang , Yisen Li , Guiyao Tie , Xiaoye Qu , Pan Zhou , Hongfei Wang , Zhaofan Zou , Hao Sun , Xuelong Li

Counterfactual instances offer human-interpretable insight into the local behaviour of machine learning models. We propose a general framework to generate sparse, in-distribution counterfactual model explanations which match a desired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Arnaud Van Looveren , Janis Klaise , Giovanni Vacanti , Oliver Cobb

Interpretable machine learning seeks to understand the reasoning process of complex black-box systems that are long notorious for lack of explainability. One flourishing approach is through counterfactual explanations, which provide…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Vy Vo , Trung Le , Van Nguyen , He Zhao , Edwin Bonilla , Gholamreza Haffari , Dinh Phung

Counterfactual explanations can be used to interpret and debug text classifiers by producing minimally altered text inputs that change a classifier's output. In this work, we evaluate five methods for generating counterfactual explanations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Stephen McAleese , Mark Keane

Ascription of an image gives insights into the objects that influence the classification of the whole image or its pixels towards a specific category. These insights help radiologists to visualize deformities in medical imaging. Most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shakeeb Murtaza

Towards human-level visual understanding, visual commonsense generation has been introduced to generate commonsense inferences beyond images. However, current research on visual commonsense generation has overlooked an important human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jun-Hyung Park , Hyuntae Park , Youjin Kang , Eojin Jeon , SangKeun Lee

In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of alterfactual explanations for black box image classifiers. Traditional explanation mechanisms from the field of Counterfactual Thinking are a widely-used paradigm for Explainable Artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Silvan Mertes , Tobias Huber , Christina Karle , Katharina Weitz , Ruben Schlagowski , Cristina Conati , Elisabeth André

In the domain of non-generative visual counterfactual explanations (CE), traditional techniques frequently involve the substitution of sections within a query image with corresponding sections from distractor images. Such methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lintong Zhang , Kang Yin , Seong-Whan Lee

We propose CounterCurate, a framework to comprehensively improve the visio-linguistic compositional reasoning capability for both contrastive and generative multimodal models. In particular, we identify two critical under-explored problems:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jianrui Zhang , Mu Cai , Tengyang Xie , Yong Jae Lee