Restricted Receptive Fields for Face Verification
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| author | Ozturk, Kagan Bhatta, Aman Wu, Haiyu Flynn, Patrick Bowyer, Kevin W. |
| author_facet | Ozturk, Kagan Bhatta, Aman Wu, Haiyu Flynn, Patrick Bowyer, Kevin W. |
| contents | Understanding how deep neural networks make decisions is crucial for analyzing their behavior and diagnosing failure cases. In computer vision, a common approach to improve interpretability is to assign importance to individual pixels using post-hoc methods. Although they are widely used to explain black-box models, their fidelity to the model's actual reasoning is uncertain due to the lack of reliable evaluation metrics. This limitation motivates an alternative approach, which is to design models whose decision processes are inherently interpretable. To this end, we propose a face similarity metric that breaks down global similarity into contributions from restricted receptive fields. Our method defines the similarity between two face images as the sum of patch-level similarity scores, providing a locally additive explanation without relying on post-hoc analysis. We show that the proposed approach achieves competitive verification performance even with patches as small as 28x28 within 112x112 face images, and surpasses state-of-the-art methods when using 56x56 patches. |
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| spellingShingle | Restricted Receptive Fields for Face Verification Ozturk, Kagan Bhatta, Aman Wu, Haiyu Flynn, Patrick Bowyer, Kevin W. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Understanding how deep neural networks make decisions is crucial for analyzing their behavior and diagnosing failure cases. In computer vision, a common approach to improve interpretability is to assign importance to individual pixels using post-hoc methods. Although they are widely used to explain black-box models, their fidelity to the model's actual reasoning is uncertain due to the lack of reliable evaluation metrics. This limitation motivates an alternative approach, which is to design models whose decision processes are inherently interpretable. To this end, we propose a face similarity metric that breaks down global similarity into contributions from restricted receptive fields. Our method defines the similarity between two face images as the sum of patch-level similarity scores, providing a locally additive explanation without relying on post-hoc analysis. We show that the proposed approach achieves competitive verification performance even with patches as small as 28x28 within 112x112 face images, and surpasses state-of-the-art methods when using 56x56 patches. |
| title | Restricted Receptive Fields for Face Verification |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10753 |