Opening the Black-Box: A Systematic Review on Explainable AI in Remote Sensing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13791v2
• Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:35:55 GMT
• Title: Opening the Black-Box: A Systematic Review on Explainable AI in Remote Sensing
• Authors: Adrian Höhl, Ivica Obadic, Miguel Ángel Fernández Torres, Hiba Najjar, Dario Oliveira, Zeynep Akata, Andreas Dengel, Xiao Xiang Zhu,
• Abstract summary: Black-box machine learning approaches have become a dominant modeling paradigm for knowledge extraction in remote sensing. We perform a systematic review to identify the key trends in the field and shed light on novel explainable AI approaches. We also give a detailed outlook on the challenges and promising research directions.
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• Abstract: In recent years, black-box machine learning approaches have become a dominant modeling paradigm for knowledge extraction in remote sensing. Despite the potential benefits of uncovering the inner workings of these models with explainable AI, a comprehensive overview summarizing the explainable AI methods used and their objectives, findings, and challenges in remote sensing applications is still missing. In this paper, we address this gap by performing a systematic review to identify the key trends in the field and shed light on novel explainable AI approaches and emerging directions that tackle specific remote sensing challenges. We also reveal the common patterns of explanation interpretation, discuss the extracted scientific insights, and reflect on the approaches used for the evaluation of explainable AI methods. As such, our review provides a complete summary of the state-of-the-art of explainable AI in remote sensing. Further, we give a detailed outlook on the challenges and promising research directions, representing a basis for novel methodological development and a useful starting point for new researchers in the field.

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