HOLMES: HOLonym-MEronym based Semantic inspection for Convolutional Image Classifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08536v1
• Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:51:02 GMT
• Title: HOLMES: HOLonym-MEronym based Semantic inspection for Convolutional Image Classifiers
• Authors: Francesco Dibitonto, Fabio Garcea, Andr\'e Panisson, Alan Perotti, and Lia Morra
• Abstract summary: We propose a new technique that decomposes a label into a set of related concepts. HOLMES provides component-level explanations for an image classification.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are nowadays the model of choice in Computer Vision, thanks to their ability to automatize the feature extraction process in visual tasks. However, the knowledge acquired during training is fully subsymbolic, and hence difficult to understand and explain to end users. In this paper, we propose a new technique called HOLMES (HOLonym-MEronym based Semantic inspection) that decomposes a label into a set of related concepts, and provides component-level explanations for an image classification model. Specifically, HOLMES leverages ontologies, web scraping and transfer learning to automatically construct meronym (parts)-based detectors for a given holonym (class). Then, it produces heatmaps at the meronym level and finally, by probing the holonym CNN with occluded images, it highlights the importance of each part on the classification output. Compared to state-of-the-art saliency methods, HOLMES takes a step further and provides information about both where and what the holonym CNN is looking at, without relying on densely annotated datasets and without forcing concepts to be associated to single computational units. Extensive experimental evaluation on different categories of objects (animals, tools and vehicles) shows the feasibility of our approach. On average, HOLMES explanations include at least two meronyms, and the ablation of a single meronym roughly halves the holonym model confidence. The resulting heatmaps were quantitatively evaluated using the deletion/insertion/preservation curves. All metrics were comparable to those achieved by GradCAM, while offering the advantage of further decomposing the heatmap in human-understandable concepts, thus highlighting both the relevance of meronyms to object classification, as well as HOLMES ability to capture it. The code is available at https://github.com/FrancesC0de/HOLMES.

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