Research Area:  Machine Learning

Abstract:

Deep Learning is a state-of-the-art technique to make inference on extensive or complex data. As a black box model due to their multilayer nonlinear structure, Deep Neural Networks are often criticized as being non-transparent and their predictions not traceable by humans. Furthermore, the models learn from artificially generated datasets, which often do not reflect reality. By basing decision-making algorithms on Deep Neural Networks, prejudice and unfairness may be promoted unknowingly due to a lack of transparency. Hence, several so-called explanators, or explainers, have been developed. Explainers try to give insight into the inner structure of machine learning black boxes by analyzing the connection between the input and output. In this survey, we present the mechanisms and properties of explaining systems for Deep Neural Networks for Computer Vision tasks. We give a comprehensive overview about the taxonomy of related studies and compare several survey papers that deal with explainability in general. We work out the drawbacks and gaps and summarize further research ideas.

Keywords:  
Black Box
Deep Neural Networks
Computer Vision
Deep Learning
Machine Learning

Author(s) Name:  Vanessa Buhrmester, David Münch and Michael Arens

Publisher name:  MDPI

DOI:  10.3390/make3040048

Volume Information:  Volume 3 Issue 4

Paper Link:   https://www.mdpi.com/2504-4990/3/4/48