Explainable Interactive Projections for Image Data

dc.contributor.authorHan, Huiminen
dc.contributor.committeechairNorth, Christopher L.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLi, Songen
dc.contributor.committeememberHuang, Lifuen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Science and Applicationsen
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-13T09:00:32Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-13T09:00:32Zen
dc.date.issued2023-01-12en
dc.description.abstractMaking sense of large collections of images is difficult. Dimension reductions (DR) assist by organizing images in a 2D space based on similarities, but provide little support for explaining why images were placed together or apart in the 2D space. Additionally, they do not provide support for modifying and updating the 2D space to explore new relationships and organizations of images. To address these problems, we present an interactive DR method for images that uses visual features extracted by a deep neural network to project the images into 2D space and provides visual explanations of image features that contributed to the 2D location. In addition, it allows people to directly manipulate the 2D projection space to define alternative relationships and explore subsequent projections of the images. With an iterative cycle of semantic interaction and explainable-AI feedback, people can explore complex visual relationships in image data. Our approach to human-AI interaction integrates visual knowledge from both human mental models and pre-trained deep neural models to explore image data. Two usage scenarios are provided to demonstrate that our method is able to capture human feedback and incorporate it into the model. Our visual explanations help bridge the gap between the feature space and the original images to illustrate the knowledge learned by the model, creating a synergy between human and machine that facilitates a more complete analysis experience.en
dc.description.abstractgeneralHigh-dimensional data is everywhere. A spreadsheet with many columns, text documents, images, ... ,etc. Exploring and visualizing high-dimensional data can be challenging. Dimension reduction (DR) techniques can help. High dimensional data can be projected into 3d or 2d space and visualized as a scatter plot.Additionally, DR tool can be interactive to help users better explore data and understand underlying algorithms. Designing such interactive DR tool is challenging for images. To address this problem, this thesis presents a tool that can visualize images to a 2D plot, data points that are considered similar are projected close to each other and vice versa. Users can manipulate images directly on this scatterplot-like visualization based on own knowledge to update the display, saliency maps are provided to reflect model's re-projection reasoning.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:36331en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113157en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectInteractive Dimension Reductionen
dc.subjectSemantic Interactionen
dc.subjectExplainable AIen
dc.titleExplainable Interactive Projections for Image Dataen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Science and Applicationsen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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