Ablation-CAM: Visual Explanations for Deep Convolutional Network via Gradient-free Localization

Autor: Saurabh Desai, Harish G. Ramaswamy
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: WACV
DOI: 10.1109/wacv45572.2020.9093360
Popis: In response to recent criticism of gradient-based visualization techniques, we propose a new methodology to generate visual explanations for deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) - based models. Our approach – Ablation-based Class Activation Mapping (Ablation CAM) uses ablation analysis to determine the importance (weights) of individual feature map units w.r.t. class. Further, this is used to produce a coarse localization map highlighting the important regions in the image for predicting the concept. Our objective and subjective evaluations show that this gradient-free approach works better than state-of-the-art Grad-CAM technique. Moreover, further experiments are carried out to show that Ablation-CAM is class discriminative as well as can be used to evaluate trust in a model.
Databáze: OpenAIRE