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Despite the significant progress in recent years, deep face recognition is often treated as a "black box" and has been criticized for lacking explainability. It becomes increasingly important to understand the characteristics and decisions of deep face recognition systems to make them more acceptable to the public. Explainable face recognition (XFR) refers to the problem of interpreting why a recognition model matches a probe face with one identity over others. Recent studies have explored use of visual saliency maps as an explanation mechanism, but they often lack a deeper analysis in the context of face recognition. This paper starts by proposing a rigorous definition of explainable face recognition (XFR) which focuses on the decision-making process of the deep recognition model. Based on that definition, a similarity-based RISE algorithm (S-RISE) is then introduced to produce high-quality visual saliency maps for a deep face recognition model. Furthermore, an evaluation approach is proposed to systematically validate the reliability and accuracy of general visual saliency-based XFR methods.
Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu, Zewei Xu
Lukas Vogelsang, Marin Vogelsang
Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu, Zewei Xu