3 papers
cs.CV2026
Explaining Object Detectors via Collective Contribution of Pixels
Toshinori Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko Kawamoto
Visual explanations for object detectors are crucial for enhancing their reliability. Object detectors identify and localize instances by assessing multiple visual features collect…
cs.CV2026
Zero-Shot Faithful Textual Explanations via Directional-Derivative Influence on Predictions
Toshinori Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko Kawamoto
Zero-shot textual explanations aim to make image classifiers more transparent by probing their internal representations, without relying on task-specific supervision or LVLMs. Howe…
cs.CV2026
Zero-Shot Textual Explanations via Translating Decision-Critical Features
Toshinori Yamauchi, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko Kawamoto
Textual explanations make image classifier decisions transparent by describing the prediction rationale in natural language. Large vision-language models can generate captions but…