Explaining the Implicit Neural Canvas: Connecting Pixels to Neurons by Tracing their Contributions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10217v2
• Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 03:04:34 GMT
• Title: Explaining the Implicit Neural Canvas: Connecting Pixels to Neurons by Tracing their Contributions
• Authors: Namitha Padmanabhan, Matthew Gwilliam, Pulkit Kumar, Shishira R Maiya, Max Ehrlich, Abhinav Shrivastava,
• Abstract summary: Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are neural networks trained as a continuous representation of a signal. Our work is a unified framework for explaining properties of INRs by examining the strength of each neuron's contribution to each output pixel.
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• Abstract: The many variations of Implicit Neural Representations (INRs), where a neural network is trained as a continuous representation of a signal, have tremendous practical utility for downstream tasks including novel view synthesis, video compression, and image super-resolution. Unfortunately, the inner workings of these networks are seriously under-studied. Our work, eXplaining the Implicit Neural Canvas (XINC), is a unified framework for explaining properties of INRs by examining the strength of each neuron's contribution to each output pixel. We call the aggregate of these contribution maps the Implicit Neural Canvas and we use this concept to demonstrate that the INRs we study learn to "see" the frames they represent in surprising ways. For example, INRs tend to have highly distributed representations. While lacking high-level object semantics, they have a significant bias for color and edges, and are almost entirely space-agnostic. We arrive at our conclusions by examining how objects are represented across time in video INRs, using clustering to visualize similar neurons across layers and architectures, and show that this is dominated by motion. These insights demonstrate the general usefulness of our analysis framework. Our project page is available at https://namithap10.github.io/xinc.

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