Evaluating Input Perturbation Methods for Interpreting CNNs and Saliency mAP Comparison
Abstract
Input perturbation methods occlude parts of an input to a function and measure the change in the function's output. Recently, input perturbation methods have been applied to generate and evaluate saliency maps from convolutional neural networks. In practice, neutral baseline images are used for the occlusion, such that the baseline image's impact on the classification probability is minimal. However, in this paper we show that arguably neutral baseline images still impact the generated saliency maps and their evaluation with input perturbations. We also demonstrate that many choices of hyperparameters lead to the divergence of saliency maps generated by input perturbations. We experimentally reveal inconsistencies among a selection of input perturbation methods and find that they lack robustness for generating saliency maps and for evaluating saliency maps as saliency metrics.
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Brunke et al. "Evaluating Input Perturbation Methods for Interpreting CNNs and Saliency mAP Comparison." European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2020. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66415-2_8Markdown
[Brunke et al. "Evaluating Input Perturbation Methods for Interpreting CNNs and Saliency mAP Comparison." European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2020.](https://mlanthology.org/eccvw/2020/brunke2020eccvw-evaluating/) doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66415-2_8BibTeX
@inproceedings{brunke2020eccvw-evaluating,
title = {{Evaluating Input Perturbation Methods for Interpreting CNNs and Saliency mAP Comparison}},
author = {Brunke, Lukas and Agrawal, Prateek and George, Nikhil},
booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops},
year = {2020},
pages = {120-134},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-66415-2_8},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/eccvw/2020/brunke2020eccvw-evaluating/}
}