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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across domains but remain difficult to interpret, limiting their trustworthiness in high-stakes applications. This paper focuses on deep vision models, for which a dominant line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Qiming Zhao , Xingjian Li , Xiaoyu Cao , Xiaolong Wu , Min Xu

Neural networks are becoming increasingly better at tasks that involve classifying and recognizing images. At the same time techniques intended to explain the network output have been proposed. One such technique is the Gradient-based Class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mirtha Lucas , Miguel Lerma , Jacob Furst , Daniela Raicu

Gradient-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Grad- CAM), is an example-based explanation method that provides a gradient activation heat map as an explanation for Convolution Neural Network (CNN) models. The drawback of this method is that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Tanmay Chakraborty , Utkarsh Trehan , Khawla Mallat , Jean-Luc Dugelay

Methods based on class activation maps (CAM) provide a simple mechanism to interpret predictions of convolutional neural networks by using linear combinations of feature maps as saliency maps. By contrast, masking-based methods optimize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Hanwei Zhang , Felipe Torres , Ronan Sicre , Yannis Avrithis , Stephane Ayache

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in numerous domains due to their high performance and accessibility to developers and application-specific end-users. Fundamental to image-based applications is the development of Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Emily Kaczmarek , Olivier X. Miguel , Alexa C. Bowie , Robin Ducharme , Alysha L. J. Dingwall-Harvey , Steven Hawken , Christine M. Armour , Mark C. Walker , Kevin Dick

Class Activation Mapping (CAM) is a powerful technique used to understand the decision making of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in computer vision. Recently, there have been attempts not only to generate better visual explanations, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Kwang Hee Lee , Chaewon Park , Junghyun Oh , Nojun Kwak

The convolutional neural network (CNN) has become a powerful tool for various biomedical image analysis tasks, but there is a lack of visual explanation for the machinery of CNNs. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Guannan Zhao , Bo Zhou , Kaiwen Wang , Rui Jiang , Min Xu

The gradient-weighted class activation mapping (Grad-CAM) method can faithfully highlight important regions in images for deep model prediction in image classification, image captioning and many other tasks. It uses the gradients in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Lei Chen , Jianhui Chen , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

As the request for deep learning solutions increases, the need for explainability is even more fundamental. In this setting, particular attention has been given to visualization techniques, that try to attribute the right relevance to each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Samuele Poppi , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

In this paper, we propose an efficient saliency map generation method, called Group score-weighted Class Activation Mapping (Group-CAM), which adopts the "split-transform-merge" strategy to generate saliency maps. Specifically, for an input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Qinglong Zhang , Lu Rao , Yubin Yang

Visual explanation maps enhance the trustworthiness of decisions made by deep learning models and offer valuable guidance for developing new algorithms in image recognition tasks. Class activation maps (CAM) and their variants (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yi Liao , Ugochukwu Ejike Akpudo , Jue Zhang , Yongsheng Gao , Jun Zhou , Wenyi Zeng , Weichuan Zhang

We present Gradient Activation Maps (GAM) - a machinery for explaining predictions made by visual similarity and classification models. By gleaning localized gradient and activation information from multiple network layers, GAM offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Oren Barkan , Omri Armstrong , Amir Hertz , Avi Caciularu , Ori Katz , Itzik Malkiel , Noam Koenigstein

Existing method generates class activation map (CAM) by a set of fixed classes (i.e., using all the classes), while the discriminative cues between class pairs are not considered. Note that activation maps by considering different class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Fanman Meng , Kaixu Huang , Hongliang Li , Qingbo Wu

Class activation map (CAM) helps to formulate saliency maps that aid in interpreting the deep neural network's prediction. Gradient-based methods are generally faster than other branches of vision interpretability and independent of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Masud An Nur Islam Fahim , Nazmus Saqib , Shafkat Khan Siam , Ho Yub Jung

Despite the tremendous success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision, the mechanism of CNNs still lacks clear interpretation. Currently, class activation mapping (CAM), a famous visualization technique to interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Zhenpeng Feng , Hongbing Ji , Milos Dakovic , Xiyang Cui , Mingzhe Zhu , Ljubisa Stankovic

While deep learning techniques have provided the state-of-the-art performance in various clinical tasks, explainability regarding their decision-making process can greatly enhance the credence of these methods for safer and quicker clinical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-30 Zirui Qiu , Hassan Rivaz , Yiming Xiao

Understanding and explaining deep learning models is an imperative task. Towards this, we propose a method that obtains gradient-based certainty estimates that also provide visual attention maps. Particularly, we solve for visual question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Badri N. Patro , Mayank Lunayach , Shivansh Patel , Vinay P. Namboodiri

To have a better understanding and usage of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs), the visualization and interpretation of CNNs has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In particular, several Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Ruigang Fu , Qingyong Hu , Xiaohu Dong , Yulan Guo , Yinghui Gao , Biao Li

Deep learning models have great potential in medical imaging, including orthodontics and skeletal maturity assessment. However, applying a model to data different from its training set can lead to unreliable predictions that may impact…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-15 Omid Halimi Milani , Amanda Nikho , Lauren Mills , Marouane Tliba , Ahmet Enis Cetin , Mohammed H. Elnagar

Explaining machine learning (ML) models using eXplainable AI (XAI) techniques has become essential to make them more transparent and trustworthy. This is especially important in high-stakes domains like healthcare, where understanding model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Felix Tempel , Daniel Groos , Espen Alexander F. Ihlen , Lars Adde , Inga Strümke