arXiv:2502.18844cs.CVcs.AI2025-02被引 1

用可量化的概念解释树皮分类模型,让黑箱变透明。

BarkXAI: A Lightweight Post-Hoc Explainable Method for Tree Species Classification with Quantifiable Concepts

  • 通过操作符和可量化概念解释模型决策
  • 在人类标注数据上显著优于TCAV和Llama3.2的排序表现
  • 适合需要可解释性与信任度的林业监测场景

精确识别树种对林业、保护和环境监测至关重要。尽管基于树皮的分类模型已实现高精度,但其常作为“黑箱”,限制了可解释性、信任度和在关键应用中的采纳。现有基于归因的XAI方法依赖局部特征,难以描述纹理主导图像(如树皮)中的全局视觉特征。概念基础的XAI虽能基于全局特征解释,但需构建庞大的外部概念图像数据集,且概念模糊主观,缺乏精确量化手段。为此,我们提出一种轻量级后处理可解释方法,利用操作符和可量化的概念来解释树种分类模型。该方法消除计算开销,实现复杂概念的量化,并评估概念重要性及模型推理过程。据我们所知,这是首个以全局视觉特征概念解释树皮视觉模型的研究。基于人工标注数据集作为真实标准,实验表明,本方法在概念重要性排序上显著优于TCAV和Llama3.2,Kendall's Tau指标显示其与人类感知更一致。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The precise identification of tree species is fundamental to forestry, conservation, and environmental monitoring. Though many studies have demonstrated that high accuracy can be achieved using bark-based species classification, these models often function as "black boxes", limiting interpretability, trust, and adoption in critical forestry applications. Attribution-based Explainable AI (XAI) methods have been used to address this issue in related works. However, XAI applications are often dependent on local features (such as a head shape or paw in animal applications) and cannot describe global visual features (such as ruggedness or smoothness) that are present in texture-dominant images such as tree bark. Concept-based XAI methods, on the other hand, offer explanations based on global visual features with concepts, but they tend to require large overhead in building external concept image datasets and the concepts can be vague and subjective without good means of precise quantification. To address these challenges, we propose a lightweight post-hoc method to interpret visual models for tree species classification using operators and quantifiable concepts. Our approach eliminates computational overhead, enables the quantification of complex concepts, and evaluates both concept importance and the model's reasoning process. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first study to explain bark vision models in terms of global visual features with concepts. Using a human-annotated dataset as ground truth, our experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms TCAV and Llama3.2 in concept importance ranking based on Kendall's Tau, highlighting its superior alignment with human perceptions.

可解释性树种识别概念解释轻量模型

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