Decom--CAM: Tell Me What You See, In Details! Feature-Level Interpretation via Decomposition Class Activation Map

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Main Authors: Yang, Yuguang, Guo, Runtang, Wu, Sheng, Wang, Yimi, Zhang, Juan, Gong, Xuan, Zhang, Baochang
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author Yang, Yuguang
Guo, Runtang
Wu, Sheng
Wang, Yimi
Zhang, Juan
Gong, Xuan
Zhang, Baochang
author_facet Yang, Yuguang
Guo, Runtang
Wu, Sheng
Wang, Yimi
Zhang, Juan
Gong, Xuan
Zhang, Baochang
contents Interpretation of deep learning remains a very challenging problem. Although the Class Activation Map (CAM) is widely used to interpret deep model predictions by highlighting object location, it fails to provide insight into the salient features used by the model to make decisions. Furthermore, existing evaluation protocols often overlook the correlation between interpretability performance and the model's decision quality, which presents a more fundamental issue. This paper proposes a new two-stage interpretability method called the Decomposition Class Activation Map (Decom-CAM), which offers a feature-level interpretation of the model's prediction. Decom-CAM decomposes intermediate activation maps into orthogonal features using singular value decomposition and generates saliency maps by integrating them. The orthogonality of features enables CAM to capture local features and can be used to pinpoint semantic components such as eyes, noses, and faces in the input image, making it more beneficial for deep model interpretation. To ensure a comprehensive comparison, we introduce a new evaluation protocol by dividing the dataset into subsets based on classification accuracy results and evaluating the interpretability performance on each subset separately. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed Decom-CAM outperforms current state-of-the-art methods significantly by generating more precise saliency maps across all levels of classification accuracy. Combined with our feature-level interpretability approach, this paper could pave the way for a new direction for understanding the decision-making process of deep neural networks.
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spellingShingle Decom--CAM: Tell Me What You See, In Details! Feature-Level Interpretation via Decomposition Class Activation Map
Yang, Yuguang
Guo, Runtang
Wu, Sheng
Wang, Yimi
Zhang, Juan
Gong, Xuan
Zhang, Baochang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Interpretation of deep learning remains a very challenging problem. Although the Class Activation Map (CAM) is widely used to interpret deep model predictions by highlighting object location, it fails to provide insight into the salient features used by the model to make decisions. Furthermore, existing evaluation protocols often overlook the correlation between interpretability performance and the model's decision quality, which presents a more fundamental issue. This paper proposes a new two-stage interpretability method called the Decomposition Class Activation Map (Decom-CAM), which offers a feature-level interpretation of the model's prediction. Decom-CAM decomposes intermediate activation maps into orthogonal features using singular value decomposition and generates saliency maps by integrating them. The orthogonality of features enables CAM to capture local features and can be used to pinpoint semantic components such as eyes, noses, and faces in the input image, making it more beneficial for deep model interpretation. To ensure a comprehensive comparison, we introduce a new evaluation protocol by dividing the dataset into subsets based on classification accuracy results and evaluating the interpretability performance on each subset separately. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed Decom-CAM outperforms current state-of-the-art methods significantly by generating more precise saliency maps across all levels of classification accuracy. Combined with our feature-level interpretability approach, this paper could pave the way for a new direction for understanding the decision-making process of deep neural networks.
title Decom--CAM: Tell Me What You See, In Details! Feature-Level Interpretation via Decomposition Class Activation Map
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04644