Exemplary Natural Images Explain CNN Activations Better than State-of-the-Art Feature Visualization

Judy Borowski, Roland Simon Zimmermann, Judith Schepers, Robert Geirhos, Thomas S. A. Wallis, Matthias Bethge, Wieland Brendel

Abstract: Feature visualizations such as synthetic maximally activating images are a widely used explanation method to better understand the information processing of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). At...