Title
CNN Fixations: An unraveling approach to visualize the discriminative image regions.
Abstract
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have revolutionized various fields of vision research and have seen unprecedented adoption for multiple tasks such as classification, detection, captioning, etc. However, they offer little transparency into their inner workings and are often treated as black boxes that deliver excellent performance. In this work, we aim at alleviating this opaqueness of CNNs by providing visual explanations for the network's predictions. Our approach can analyze a variety of CNN based models trained for vision applications such as object recognition and caption generation. Unlike existing methods, we achieve this via unraveling the forward pass operation. The proposed method exploits feature dependencies across the layer hierarchy and uncovers the discriminative image locations that guide the network's predictions. We name these locations CNNFixations, loosely analogous to human eye fixations. Our approach is a generic method that requires no architectural changes, additional training or gradient computation and computes the important image locations (CNN Fixations). We demonstrate through a variety of applications that our approach is able to localize the discriminative image locations across different network architectures, diverse vision tasks and data modalities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TIP.2018.2881920
IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Neurons,Visualization,Task analysis,Computer architecture,Training,Network architecture,Convolution
Journal
abs/1708.06670
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
1057-7149
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
27
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Konda Reddy Mopuri1806.39
Utsav Garg2281.82
R. Venkatesh Babu3104684.83