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48 results for Semantic Image Interpretation

RCAV quantifies model sensitivity to semantic concepts, improving interpretability methods.

problem Lack of semantic interpretability in image classification models.
method RCAV calculates concept gradients and ascent steps to assess model sensitivity to semantic concepts.
result RCAV yields more accurate and robust interpretations of model behavior.

This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.

problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.

Novel CNN-based gaze scanpath comparison distinguishes experts from novices in dental radiograph interpretation.

problem Distinguishing expertise in dental radiograph interpretation based on gaze behavior.
method Convolutional neural networks (CNN) process scene information at the fixation level, using image patches as input to compare gaze scanpaths.
result 93% accuracy in distinguishing experts from novices using image patch features.

The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks has been widely demonstrated (e.g., adversarial example attacks). Traditional attacks perform unstructured pixel-wise perturbation to fool the classifier. An alternative approach is to have perturbations in the latent space. However, such perturbations ar…

2020-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper develops a framework for generating coherent image captions using visual features and hierarchical topics.

problem Generating semantically coherent paragraphs to describe image content.
method Plug-and-play hierarchical-topic-guided image paragraph generation framework integrating visual extractor and deep topic model.
result Proposed models can distill interpretable multi-layer semantic topics and generate diverse and coherent captions.

We consider the task of semantic robotic grasping, in which a robot picks up an object of a user-specified class using only monocular images. Inspired by the two-stream hypothesis of visual reasoning, we present a semantic grasping framework that learns object detection, classification, and grasp planning in an end-to-…

2017-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tests semantic importance in opaque models using betting.

problem Precise statistical guarantees for semantic concepts in black-box models.
method Formalizes global and local statistical importance via conditional independence and SKIT.
result Shows effectiveness and flexibility of the framework on various models.

EigenGAN discovers interpretable dimensions in GAN layers for semantic control.

problem Lack of explicit dimensions to control semantic attributes in GAN layers.
method EigenGAN embeds linear subspaces with orthogonal bases into each generator layer, learning eigen-dimensions corresponding to semantic attributes via adversarial training.
result EigenGAN can produce samples with continuous changes corresponding to specific semantic attributes.

Unsupervised method discovers interpretable directions in GAN latent space.

problem Discovering interpretable directions in GAN latent space without supervision.
method Model-agnostic procedure to identify directions corresponding to semantic manipulations.
result Findings include directions for background removal and competitive saliency detection performance.

StylEx trains a GAN to explain classifier decisions in StyleSpace.

problem Creating meaningful image-specific explanations for classifier decisions.
method Training a StyleGAN to learn a classifier-specific StyleSpace, incorporating the classifier model.
result StylEx finds attributes that align with semantic ones and generates human-interpretable explanations.

The human face constantly conveys information, both consciously and subconsciously. However, as basic as it is for humans to visually interpret this information, it is quite a big challenge for machines. Conventional semantic facial feature recognition and analysis techniques are already in use and are based on physiol…

2015-12-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Learning image representations to capture fine-grained semantics has been a challenging and important task enabling many applications such as image search and clustering. In this paper, we present Graph-Regularized Image Semantic Embedding (Graph-RISE), a large-scale neural graph learning framework that allows us to tr…

2019-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have obtained extraordinary success in the generation of realistic images, a domain where a lower pixel-level accuracy is acceptable. We study the problem, not yet tackled in the literature, of generating semantic images starting from a prior distribution. Intuitively this problem…

2019-06-27abs ↗pdf ↗

Semantic inpainting is the task of inferring missing pixels in an image given surrounding pixels and high level image semantics. Most semantic inpainting algorithms are deterministic: given an image with missing regions, a single inpainted image is generated. However, there are often several plausible inpaintings for a…

2018-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to improve semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images.

problem Semantic segmentation for fisheye urban driving images is challenging due to distortion and lack of large datasets.
method A seven degrees of freedom augmentation method is proposed to transform rectilinear images into fisheye images.
result Training with seven-DoF augmentation improves model accuracy and robustness against distorted fisheye data.

New diffusion models improve counterfactual image generation with semantic control.

problem Challenges in preserving identity, maintaining quality, and ensuring causal model faithfulness in counterfactual image generation.
method Integrates semantic representations into diffusion models through Pearlian causality, introducing spatial, semantic, and dynamic abduction.
result Demonstrates high-level semantic identity preservation and principled trade-offs between faithful causal control and identity preservation.

Enhances image classification by integrating semantic hierarchy into CNN models.

problem Limited use of external guidance in image classification.
method Integrates label-hierarchy knowledge into CNN-based classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings.
result Boosts image classification performance through semantic hierarchy integration.

POLAR framework interprets word embeddings using polar opposites.

problem Lack of interpretability in pre-trained word embeddings.
method Adopt semantic differentials and polar opposites to transform embeddings.
result Interpretable word embeddings maintain performance comparable to original embeddings.

This paper proposes synthetic augmentation for nuclei image segmentation in medical pathology.

problem Rare and time-consuming labeling of tumor nuclei images for semantic segmentation.
method Label-to-image translation to generate synthetic images.
result Synthetic augmentation improves segmentation accuracy.

The thesis introduces methods to use semantic hierarchy in image classification.

problem Limited work in training image classifiers with non-conventional external guidance.
method Injects label hierarchy knowledge into arbitrary classifiers and uses order-preserving embeddings for image classification.
result Both embedding-based models and CNN-classifiers with hierarchical information outperform a hierarchy-agnostic model.

This survey analyzes deep learning methods for real-time semantic image segmentation.

problem Efficient and accurate semantic image segmentation for real-time applications.
method Comprehensive analysis of deep learning architectures and techniques for fast inference.
result Best-performing architectures and techniques for real-time semantic image segmentation.

Explaining the prediction of deep neural networks (DNNs) and semantic image compression are two active research areas of deep learning with a numerous of applications in decision-critical systems, such as surveillance cameras, drones and self-driving cars, where interpretable decision is critical and storage/network ba…

2019-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a framework to classify images belonging to unseen classes based on solely semantic information about these unseen classes. In this paper, we propose a new ZSL algorithm using coupled dictionary learning. The core idea is that the visual features and the semantic attributes of an image can s…

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

ScoreAG generates unrestricted adversarial images maintaining semantic integrity.

problem Limited robustness evaluations due to p\ell_p-norm constraints.
method Score-Based Adversarial Generation (ScoreAG) using score-based generative models.
result ScoreAG improves robustness assessments across multiple benchmarks.

Recently, researchers have started decomposing deep neural network models according to their semantics or functions. Recent work has shown the effectiveness of decomposed functional blocks for defending adversarial attacks, which add small input perturbation to the input image to fool the DNN models. This work proposes…

2019-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for image translation using disentangled style and content preservation.

problem Difficulty in maintaining original content during reverse diffusion in diffusion-based image translation.
method Disentangled style and content representation using intermediate keys from ViT model, CLIP loss, semantic divergence loss, and resampling strategy.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models in text-guided and image-guided translation tasks.

ZegOT uses optimal transport to zero-shot segment images with text prompts.

problem Zero-shot semantic segmentation with limited image-text alignment knowledge.
method ZegOT uses optimal transport to match multiple text prompts with frozen image embeddings.
result ZegOT achieves state-of-the-art performance in zero-shot semantic segmentation.

This paper proposes a generic method to learn interpretable convolutional filters in a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for object classification, where each interpretable filter encodes features of a specific object part. Our method does not require additional annotations of object parts or textures for supervi…

2019-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New method extracts biological concepts from cell microscopy images.

problem Extracting meaningful concepts from vision foundation models trained on cell microscopy images.
method Sparse dictionary learning (DL) combined with PCA whitening pre-processing.
result Successfully retrieved biologically meaningful concepts like cell types and genetic perturbations.

Coupling the high-fidelity generation capabilities of label-conditional image synthesis methods with the flexibility of unconditional generative models, we propose a semantic bottleneck GAN model for unconditional synthesis of complex scenes. We assume pixel-wise segmentation labels are available during training and us…

2019-11-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a weak supervision technique for CNN semantic segmentation of lung diseases using partially annotated data.

problem Creating annotated datasets for semantic segmentation of lung diseases is laborious and time-consuming.
method Proposes a weak supervision technique that utilizes partially annotated datasets to improve CNN semantic segmentation accuracy.
result Significantly improved segmentation accuracy using partially annotated datasets.

Prediction and interpolation for long-range video data involves the complex task of modeling motion trajectories for each visible object, occlusions and dis-occlusions, as well as appearance changes due to viewpoint and lighting. Optical flow based techniques generalize but are suitable only for short temporal ranges. …

2019-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗