Axiom-based Grad-CAM: Towards Accurate Visualization and Explanation of CNNs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.02312v4
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 06:04:28 GMT
• Title: Axiom-based Grad-CAM: Towards Accurate Visualization and Explanation of CNNs
• Authors: Ruigang Fu, Qingyong Hu, Xiaohu Dong, Yulan Guo, Yinghui Gao, Biao Li
• Abstract summary: Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods have been proposed to discover the connection between CNN's decision and image regions. In this paper, we introduce two axioms -- Conservation and Sensitivity -- to the visualization paradigm of the CAM methods. A dedicated Axiom-based Grad-CAM (XGrad-CAM) is proposed to satisfy these axioms as much as possible.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: To have a better understanding and usage of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs), the visualization and interpretation of CNNs has attracted increasing attention in recent years. In particular, several Class Activation Mapping (CAM) methods have been proposed to discover the connection between CNN's decision and image regions. In spite of the reasonable visualization, lack of clear and sufficient theoretical support is the main limitation of these methods. In this paper, we introduce two axioms -- Conservation and Sensitivity -- to the visualization paradigm of the CAM methods. Meanwhile, a dedicated Axiom-based Grad-CAM (XGrad-CAM) is proposed to satisfy these axioms as much as possible. Experiments demonstrate that XGrad-CAM is an enhanced version of Grad-CAM in terms of conservation and sensitivity. It is able to achieve better visualization performance than Grad-CAM, while also be class-discriminative and easy-to-implement compared with Grad-CAM++ and Ablation-CAM. The code is available at https://github.com/Fu0511/XGrad-CAM.

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