Explainable Computer Vision: Quo Vadis?

Do VLMs Have Bad Eyes? Diagnosing Compositional Failures via Mechanistic Interpretability

Ashwath Vaithinathan Aravindan,

Abha Jha,

Mihir Kulkarni

[pdf] [arXiv]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Aravindan_2025_ICCV, author = {Aravindan, Ashwath Vaithinathan and Jha, Abha and Kulkarni, Mihir}, title = {Do VLMs Have Bad Eyes? Diagnosing Compositional Failures via Mechanistic Interpretability}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2025}, pages = {704-712} }

Rethinking Explainer Trust: A Position on the Inconsistencies of Visual Explanations in Weakly Supervised Segmentation

Ayush Somani,

Dilip K. Prasad

[pdf]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Somani_2025_ICCV, author = {Somani, Ayush and Prasad, Dilip K.}, title = {Rethinking Explainer Trust: A Position on the Inconsistencies of Visual Explanations in Weakly Supervised Segmentation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2025}, pages = {743-752} }

GFR-CAM: Gram-Schmidt Feature Reduction for Hierarchical Class Activation Maps

Kaveh Safavigerdini,

Bahram Yaghooti,

Amir Erfan Zareei Shams Abadi,

Kannappan Palaniappan

[pdf]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Safavigerdini_2025_ICCV, author = {Safavigerdini, Kaveh and Yaghooti, Bahram and Abadi, Amir Erfan Zareei Shams and Palaniappan, Kannappan}, title = {GFR-CAM: Gram-Schmidt Feature Reduction for Hierarchical Class Activation Maps}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2025}, pages = {733-742} }

Interpretable Open-Vocabulary Referring Object Detection with Reverse Contrast Attention

Drandreb Earl Juanico,

Rowel Atienza,

Jeffrey Kenneth Go

[pdf] [supp] [arXiv]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Juanico_2025_ICCV, author = {Juanico, Drandreb Earl and Atienza, Rowel and Go, Jeffrey Kenneth}, title = {Interpretable Open-Vocabulary Referring Object Detection with Reverse Contrast Attention}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2025}, pages = {723-732} }

Explaining Object Detection Through Difference Map

Shujun Xia,

Chenyang Zhao,

Antoni Chan

[pdf]

[bibtex]

@InProceedings{Xia_2025_ICCV, author = {Xia, Shujun and Zhao, Chenyang and Chan, Antoni}, title = {Explaining Object Detection Through Difference Map}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops}, month = {October}, year = {2025}, pages = {713-722} }