학술논문

Explaining in Style: Training a GAN to explain a classifier in StyleSpace
Document Type
Conference
Source
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ICCV Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on. :673-682 Oct, 2021
Subject
Computing and Processing
Training
Visualization
Computer vision
Animals
Semantics
Retina
Standards
Explainable AI
Image and video synthesis
Language
ISSN
2380-7504
Abstract
Image classification models can depend on multiple different semantic attributes of the image. An explanation of the decision of the classifier needs to both discover and visualize these properties. Here we present StylEx, a method for doing this, by training a generative model to specifically explain multiple attributes that underlie classifier decisions. A natural source for such attributes is the StyleSpace of StyleGAN, which is known to generate semantically meaningful dimensions in the image. However, because standard GAN training is not dependent on the classifier, it may not represent those attributes which are important for the classifier decision, and the dimensions of StyleSpace may represent irrelevant at-tributes. To overcome this, we propose a training procedure for a StyleGAN, which incorporates the classifier model, in order to learn a classifier-specific StyleSpace. Explanatory attributes are then selected from this space. These can be used to visualize the effect of changing multiple attributes per image, thus providing image-specific explanations. We apply StylEx to multiple domains, including animals, leaves, faces and retinal images. For these, we show how an image can be modified in different ways to change its classifier output. Our results show that the method finds attributes that align well with semantic ones, generate meaningful image-specific explanations, and are human-interpretable as measured in user-studies. 1