Date of Award

Spring 5-15-2016

Author's Department

Computer Science & Engineering

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Degree Type

Thesis

Abstract

Deep learning has achieved great accuracy in large scale image classification and scene recognition tasks, especially after the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model was introduced. Although a CNN often demonstrates very good classification results, it is usually unclear how or why a classification result is achieved. The objective of this thesis is to explore several existing visualization approaches which offer intuitive visual results. The thesis focuses on three visualization approaches: (1) image masking which highlights the region of image with high influence on the classification, (2) Taylor decomposition back-propagation which generates a per pixel heat map that describes each pixel's effect on the classification, and (3) Inception which generates a natural looking image based on the features maximizing the classification score. We explore two challenging visualization tasks, (1) visualizing a model classifying images based on the time when they are taken, and (2) visualizing a model of predicting plant phenotypes (specifically wheat heading percentage). The thesis demonstrates how these visualization approaches work for both the classification model and regression model, and evaluates the results on real-world imagery.

Language

English (en)

Chair

Robert Pless

Committee Members

Yasu Furukawa Tao Ju

Comments

Permanent URL: https://doi.org/10.7936/K7BK19NT

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