TSG: Target-Selective Gradient Backprop for Probing CNN Visual Saliency

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05182v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:00:20 GMT
• Title: TSG: Target-Selective Gradient Backprop for Probing CNN Visual Saliency
• Authors: Lin Cheng, Pengfei Fang, Yanjie Liang, Liao Zhang, Chunhua Shen, Hanzi Wang
• Abstract summary: We study the visual saliency, a.k.a. visual explanation, to interpret convolutional neural networks. Inspired by those observations, we propose a novel visual saliency framework, termed Target-Selective Gradient (TSG) backprop. The proposed TSG consists of two components, namely, TSG-Conv and TSG-FC, which rectify the gradients for convolutional layers and fully-connected layers, respectively.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The explanation for deep neural networks has drawn extensive attention in the deep learning community over the past few years. In this work, we study the visual saliency, a.k.a. visual explanation, to interpret convolutional neural networks. Compared to iteration based saliency methods, single backward pass based saliency methods benefit from faster speed and are widely used in downstream visual tasks. Thus our work focuses on single backward pass approaches. However, existing methods in this category struggle to successfully produce fine-grained saliency maps concentrating on specific target classes. That said, producing faithful saliency maps satisfying both target-selectiveness and fine-grainedness using a single backward pass is a challenging problem in the field. To mitigate this problem, we revisit the gradient flow inside the network, and find that the entangled semantics and original weights may disturb the propagation of target-relevant saliency. Inspired by those observations, we propose a novel visual saliency framework, termed Target-Selective Gradient (TSG) backprop, which leverages rectification operations to effectively emphasize target classes and further efficiently propagate the saliency to the input space, thereby generating target-selective and fine-grained saliency maps. The proposed TSG consists of two components, namely, TSG-Conv and TSG-FC, which rectify the gradients for convolutional layers and fully-connected layers, respectively. Thorough qualitative and quantitative experiments on ImageNet and Pascal VOC show that the proposed framework achieves more accurate and reliable results than other competitive methods.

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