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Visualizing Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Using Natural Pre-images

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Mahendran, Aravindh, Vedaldi, Andrea·2016·International Journal of Computer Vision
DOI 10.1007/s11263-016-0911-8
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Image representations, from SIFT and bag of visual words to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a crucial component of almost all computer vision systems. However, our understanding of them remains limited. In this paper we study several landmark representations, both shallow and deep, by a number of complementary visualization techniques. These visualizations are based on the concept of “natural pre-image”, namely a natural-looking image whose representation has some notable property. We study in particular three such visualizations: inversion, in which the aim is to reconstruct an image from its representation, activation maximization, in which we search for patterns that maximally stimulate a representation component, and caricaturization, in which the visual patterns that a representation detects in an image are exaggerated. We pose these as a regularized energy-minimization framework and demonstrate its generality and effectiveness. In particular, we show that this method can invert representations such as HOG more accurately than recent alternatives while being applicable to CNNs too. Among our findings, we show that several layers in CNNs retain photographically accurate information about the image, with different degrees of geometric and photometric invariance.

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Metadata

Authors
Mahendran, A., & Vedaldi, A.
Venue
International Journal of Computer Vision
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2016-05-18
Volume
120
Issue
3
Pages
233-255
ISSN
  • 0920-5691 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-1405
DOI
10.1007/s11263-016-0911-8
OpenAlex
W2190008860
Cited by
496
References
19
FWCI
38.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Funders
  • BP
  • ERC-STG (IDIU-638009)

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