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Published at November 22Reliable Evaluation of Attribution Maps in CNNs: A Perturbation-Based Approach
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Released Date: November 22, 2024
Authors: Lars Nieradzik1, Henrike Stephani1, Janis Keuper2
Aff.: 1Image Processing Department, Fraunhofer ITWM; 2Institute of Machine Learning and Analysis (IMLA), Offenburg University

| Attribution Method | Perturb (ours) | InsBlur | Del | Ins |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GradCAM Selvaraju et al. (2019) | 0.477 0.08 | 0.786 0.063 | 0.310 0.148 | 0.694 0.109 |
| GradCAM++ Chattopadhay et al. (2018) | 0.496 0.106 | 0.772 0.08 | 0.321 0.168 | 0.679 0.112 |
| LayerCAM Jiang et al. (2021) | 0.494 0.094 | 0.766 0.055 | 0.337 0.162 | 0.666 0.105 |
| PolyCAMm Englebert et al. (2022) | 0.430 0.098 | 0.720 0.064 | 0.315 0.206 | 0.532 0.029 |
| PolyCAMp Englebert et al. (2022) | 0.438 0.110 | 0.720 0.073 | 0.318 0.208 | 0.542 0.083 |
| PolyCAMpm Englebert et al. (2022) | 0.440 0.102 | 0.724 0.064 | 0.320 0.203 | 0.546 0.077 |
| ReciproCAM Byun and Lee (2023) | 0.495 0.137 | 0.794 0.087 | 0.273 0.149 | 0.708 0.131 |
| ScoreCAM Wang et al. (2020a) | 0.492 0.113 | 0.764 0.085 | 0.337 0.177 | 0.661 0.153 |
| SmoothGradCAM++ Omeiza et al. (2019) | 0.441 0.017 | 0.708 0.040 | 0.427 0.188 | 0.598 0.115 |
| BlurintegratedGradients Xu et al. (2020) | 0.454 0.136 | 0.758 0.097 | 0.266 0.353 | 0.521 0.096 |
| Gradients Simonyan et al. (2014) | 0.544 0.137 | 0.638 0.152 | 0.293 0.314 | 0.371 0.237 |
| GuidedintegratedGradients Kapishnikov et al. (2021) | 0.452 0.138 | 0.697 0.116 | 0.294 0.319 | 0.505 0.121 |
| IntegratedGradients Sundararajan et al. (2017) | 0.488 0.135 | 0.712 0.128 | 0.295 0.319 | 0.532 0.124 |
| SmoothGrad Smilkov et al. (2017) | 0.562 0.148 | 0.707 0.128 | 0.295 0.319 | 0.561 0.140 |
| Canny Canny (1986) | 0.315 0.072 | 0.564 0.199 | 0.332 0.279 | 0.401 0.211 |
| Uniform | 0.281 0.061 | 0.528 0.240 | 0.302 0.276 | 0.302 0.276 |