Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-level Classification for Complex Scenes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03786v1
• Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 09:48:58 GMT
• Title: Improving Computer Vision Interpretability: Transparent Two-level Classification for Complex Scenes
• Authors: Stefan Scholz, Nils B. Weidmann, Zachary C. Steinert-Threlkeld, Eda Keremoğlu, Bastian Goldlücke,
• Abstract summary: This paper presents a two-level classification method that addresses the transparency problem. We apply this method to a new dataset of more than 140,000 images to detect which ones display political protest. Knowing objects enables analysis of which distinguish protest images from non-protest ones.
• Score: 0.694388984236049
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Treating images as data has become increasingly popular in political science. While existing classifiers for images reach high levels of accuracy, it is difficult to systematically assess the visual features on which they base their classification. This paper presents a two-level classification method that addresses this transparency problem. At the first stage, an image segmenter detects the objects present in the image and a feature vector is created from those objects. In the second stage, this feature vector is used as input for standard machine learning classifiers to discriminate between images. We apply this method to a new dataset of more than 140,000 images to detect which ones display political protest. This analysis demonstrates three advantages to this paper's approach. First, identifying objects in images improves transparency by providing human-understandable labels for the objects shown on an image. Second, knowing these objects enables analysis of which distinguish protest images from non-protest ones. Third, comparing the importance of objects across countries reveals how protest behavior varies. These insights are not available using conventional computer vision classifiers and provide new opportunities for comparative research.

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