This Looks Like That, Because ... Explaining Prototypes for Interpretable Image Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.02863v2
• Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 07:13:23 GMT
• Title: This Looks Like That, Because ... Explaining Prototypes for Interpretable Image Recognition
• Authors: Meike Nauta, Annemarie Jutte, Jesper Provoost, Christin Seifert
• Abstract summary: We argue that prototypes should be explained. Our method clarifies the meaning of a prototype by quantifying the influence of colour hue, shape, texture, contrast and saturation. By explaining such'misleading' prototypes, we improve the interpretability and simulatability of a prototype-based classification model.
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• Abstract: Image recognition with prototypes is considered an interpretable alternative for black box deep learning models. Classification depends on the extent to which a test image "looks like" a prototype. However, perceptual similarity for humans can be different from the similarity learned by the classification model. Hence, only visualising prototypes can be insufficient for a user to understand what a prototype exactly represents, and why the model considers a prototype and an image to be similar. We address this ambiguity and argue that prototypes should be explained. We improve interpretability by automatically enhancing visual prototypes with textual quantitative information about visual characteristics deemed important by the classification model. Specifically, our method clarifies the meaning of a prototype by quantifying the influence of colour hue, shape, texture, contrast and saturation and can generate both global and local explanations. Because of the generality of our approach, it can improve the interpretability of any similarity-based method for prototypical image recognition. In our experiments, we apply our method to the existing Prototypical Part Network (ProtoPNet). Our analysis confirms that the global explanations are generalisable, and often correspond to the visually perceptible properties of a prototype. Our explanations are especially relevant for prototypes which might have been interpreted incorrectly otherwise. By explaining such 'misleading' prototypes, we improve the interpretability and simulatability of a prototype-based classification model. We also use our method to check whether visually similar prototypes have similar explanations, and are able to discover redundancy. Code is available at https://github.com/M-Nauta/Explaining_Prototypes .

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