Deep learning has taken by storm all fields involved in data analysis, including remote sensing for Earth observation. However, despite significant advances in terms of performance, its lack of explainability and interpretability, inherent to neural networks in general since their inception, remains a major source of criticism. Hence it comes as no surprise that the expansion of deep learning methods in remote sensing is being accompanied by increasingly intensive efforts oriented towards addressing this drawback through the exploration of a wide spectrum of Explainable Artificial Intelligence techniques. This chapter, organized according to prominent Earth observation application fields, presents a panorama of the state-of-the-art in explainable remote sensing image analysis.
Center for Artificial Intelligence Research（人工智能研究中心）；University of Agder（阿格德大学）
The past decade has seen significant progress in artificial intelligence (AI), which has resulted in algorithms being adopted for resolving a variety of problems. However, this success has been met by increasing model complexity and employing black-box AI models that lack transparency. In response to this need, Explainable AI (XAI) has been proposed to make AI more transparent and thus advance the adoption of AI in critical domains. Although there are several reviews of XAI topics in the literature that identified challenges and potential research directions in XAI, these challenges and resear…
Nowadays, deep neural networks are widely used in mission critical systems such as healthcare, self-driving vehicles, and military which have direct impact on human lives. However, the black-box nature of deep neural networks challenges its use in mission critical applications, raising ethical and judicial concerns inducing lack of trust. Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) is a field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that promotes a set of tools, techniques, and algorithms that can generate high-quality interpretable, intuitive, human-understandable explanations of AI decisions. In additi…
Artificial Intelligence in Pediatric Echocardiography: Exploring Challenges, Opportunities, and Clinical Applications with Explainable AI and Federated Learning
Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of TU Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School（布伦瑞克工业大学与汉诺威医学院彼得·L·赖歇茨医学信息学研究所）；Hannover Medical School（汉诺威医学院）
Applications of Explainable artificial intelligence in Earth system science
Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai)（南方海洋科学与工程广东省实验室（珠海））；Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Climate Change and Natural Disaster Studies（广东省气候变化与自然灾害研究重点实验室）；Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry（马克斯·普朗克生物地球化学研究所）；Shanwei Meteorological Service（汕尾市气象局）；College of Computer Science and Technology, Changchun Normal University（长春师范大学计算机科学与技术学院）；ELLIS Unit Jena（ELLIS耶拿单元）
Mississippi State University（密西西比州立大学）；U.S Army Engineer Research and Development Center（美国陆军工程研究与发展中心）
The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to cybersecurity challenges has gained traction in industry and academia, partially as a result of widespread malware attacks on critical systems such as cloud infrastructures and government institutions. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), using some forms of AI, have received widespread adoption due to their ability to handle vast amounts of data with a high prediction accuracy. These systems are hosted in the organizational Cyber Security Operation Center (CSoC) as a defense tool to monitor and detect malicious network…
TECNALIA；ENSTA, Institute Polytechnique Paris（巴黎综合理工学院ENSTA）；INRIA（法国国家信息与自动化研究所）；University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)（巴斯克大学（UPV/EHU））；Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM)（巴斯克应用数学中心（BCAM））；Segula Technologies（Segula科技公司）；Sorbonne Universitè（索邦大学）；DaSCI Andalusian Institute of Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada（格拉纳达大学DaSCI安达卢西亚数据科学与计算智能研究所）；Telefonica（西班牙电信公司）
In the last years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has achieved a notable momentum that may deliver the best of expectations over many application sectors across the field. For this to occur, the entire community stands in front of the barrier of explainability, an inherent problem of AI techniques brought by sub-symbolism (e.g. ensembles or Deep Neural Networks) that were not present in the last hype of AI. Paradigms underlying this problem fall within the so-called eXplainable AI (XAI) field, which is acknowledged as a crucial feature for the practical deployment of AI models. This overview exa…
We propose a framework for interactive and explainable machine learning that enables users to (1) understand machine learning models; (2) diagnose model limitations using different explainable AI methods; as well as (3) refine and optimize the models. Our framework combines an iterative XAI pipeline with eight global monitoring and steering mechanisms, including quality monitoring, provenance tracking, model comparison, and trust building. To operationalize the framework, we present explAIner, a visual analytics system for interactive and explainable machine learning that instantiates all phas…
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)（埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学）
For many applications, utilizing DNNs (Deep Neural Networks) requires their implementation on a target architecture in an optimized manner concerning energy consumption, memory requirement, throughput, etc. DNN compression is used to reduce the memory footprint and complexity of a DNN before its deployment on hardware. Recent efforts to understand and explain AI (Artificial Intelligence) methods have led to a new research area, termed as explainable AI. Explainable AI methods allow us to understand better the inner working of DNNs, such as the importance of different neurons and features. The …
A surge of interest in explainable AI (XAI) has led to a vast collection of algorithmic work on the topic. While many recognize the necessity to incorporate explainability features in AI systems, how to address real-world user needs for understanding AI remains an open question. By interviewing 20 UX and design practitioners working on various AI products, we seek to identify gaps between the current XAI algorithmic work and practices to create explainable AI products. To do so, we develop an algorithm-informed XAI question bank in which user needs for explainability are represented as prototy…
From What Ifs to Insights: Counterfactuals in Causal Inference vs. Explainable AI
Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University（服务科学研究所，国立清华大学）；Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Antwerp（商学院与经济学院，安特卫普大学）；Copenhagen Business School（哥本哈根商学院）
Meta Reality Labs（Meta现实实验室）；Purdue（普渡大学）；Aarhus Univ（奥胡斯大学）；Dartmouth（达特茅斯学院）；Cambridge（剑桥大学）
Explainable AI (XAI) has established itself as an important component of AI-driven interactive systems. With Augmented Reality (AR) becoming more integrated in daily lives, the role of XAI also becomes essential in AR because end-users will frequently interact with intelligent services. However, it is unclear how to design effective XAI experiences for AR. We propose XAIR, a design framework that addresses "when", "what", and "how" to provide explanations of AI output in AR. The framework was based on a multi-disciplinary literature review of XAI and HCI research, a large-scale survey probing …
The University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学）；NorthEdge Capital LLP（NorthEdge资本有限责任合伙公司）
The core activity of a Private Equity (PE) firm is to invest into companies in order to provide the investors with profit, usually within 4-7 years. To invest into a company or not is typically done manually by looking at various performance indicators of the company and then making a decision often based on instinct. This process is rather unmanageable given the large number of companies to potentially invest. Moreover, as more data about company performance indicators becomes available and the number of different indicators one may want to consider increases, manual crawling and assessment o…
Seoul National University（首尔大学）；Carnegie Mellon University（卡内基梅隆大学）
Explainable AI (XAI) is a promising means of supporting human-AI collaborations for high-stakes visual detection tasks, such as damage detection tasks from satellite imageries, as fully-automated approaches are unlikely to be perfectly safe and reliable. However, most existing XAI techniques are not informed by the understandings of task-specific needs of humans for explanations. Thus, we took a first step toward understanding what forms of XAI humans require in damage detection tasks. We conducted an online crowdsourced study to understand how people explain their own assessments, when evalua…
FST.ai 2.5: Explainable and Uncertainty-Aware AI for Olympic and Para-Taekwondo Decision Support, Athlete Digital Twins, and Federation-Scale Analytics
In recent years, the field of explainable AI (XAI) has produced a vast collection of algorithms, providing a useful toolbox for researchers and practitioners to build XAI applications. With the rich application opportunities, explainability is believed to have moved beyond a demand by data scientists or researchers to comprehend the models they develop, to an essential requirement for people to trust and adopt AI deployed in numerous domains. However, explainability is an inherently human-centric property and the field is starting to embrace human-centered approaches. Human-computer interactio…
Evolutionary Computation and Explainable AI: A Roadmap to Understandable Intelligent Systems
Queen’s University（女王大学）；Newcastle University（纽卡斯尔大学）；University of Stirling（斯特灵大学）；University of Parma（帕尔马大学）；Robert Gordon University（罗伯特戈登大学）；University of Trento（特伦托大学）；Universiteit Leiden（莱顿大学）；University of Exeter（埃克塞特大学）
University of Twente（特文特大学）；University of Duisburg-Essen（杜伊斯堡-埃森大学）
The rising popularity of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to understand high-performing black boxes raised the question of how to evaluate explanations of machine learning (ML) models. While interpretability and explainability are often presented as a subjectively validated binary property, we consider it a multi-faceted concept. We identify 12 conceptual properties, such as Compactness and Correctness, that should be evaluated for comprehensively assessing the quality of an explanation. Our so-called Co-12 properties serve as categorization scheme for systematically reviewing the eva…
Explainable Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Interpretation of Food Models: a Review
Department of Mathematics, Informatics, and Geosciences University of Trieste（数学、信息学与地质科学系特里斯特大学）；Department of Food Engineering and Technology University of Campinas（食品工程与技术系坎皮纳斯大学）；Faculty of Technology Policy Management University of Technology, Delft（技术政策管理系技术大学，代尔夫特）；ASAC s.r.l., Cessalto (TV), Italy（ASAC公司，Cessalto（TV），意大利）；Department of Food Engineering and Technology, University of Campinas（食品工程与技术系坎皮纳斯大学）
Explainable AI-based Intrusion Detection System for Industry 5.0: An Overview of the Literature, associated Challenges, the existing Solutions, and Potential Research Directions
Hamad bin Khalifa University（哈马德·本·哈利法大学）；Qatar Computing Research Institute（卡塔尔计算研究所）；Munster Technological University（芒斯特理工大学）；Toronto Metropolitan University（多伦多都会大学）
Explainable AI for Biodiversity Monitoring and Ecological Image Analysis
Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University（杜克大学工程学院）；British Antarctic Survey（英国南极调查局）；Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge（剑桥大学应用数学与理论物理系）；Duke University Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University Marine Laboratory（杜克大学海洋科学与保护分会，尼古拉斯环境学院，杜克大学海洋实验室）
Deep learning bears promise for drug discovery, including advanced image analysis, prediction of molecular structure and function, and automated generation of innovative chemical entities with bespoke properties. Despite the growing number of successful prospective applications, the underlying mathematical models often remain elusive to interpretation by the human mind. There is a demand for 'explainable' deep learning methods to address the need for a new narrative of the machine language of the molecular sciences. This review summarizes the most prominent algorithmic concepts of explainable …
As AI is increasingly being adopted into application solutions, the challenge of supporting interaction with humans is becoming more apparent. Partly this is to support integrated working styles, in which humans and intelligent systems cooperate in problem-solving, but also it is a necessary step in the process of building trust as humans migrate greater responsibility to such systems. The challenge is to find effective ways to communicate the foundations of AI-driven behaviour, when the algorithms that drive it are far from transparent to humans. In this paper we consider the opportunities th…
Jet Propulsion Laboratory（喷气推进实验室）；California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）；University of Southern California（南加州大学）
We propose Marve, a system for extracting measurement values, units, and related words from natural language text. Marve uses conditional random fields (CRF) to identify measurement values and units, followed by a rule-based system to find related entities, descriptors and modifiers within a sentence. Sentence tokens are represented by an undirected graphical model, and rules are based on part-of-speech and word dependency patterns connecting values and units to contextual words. Marve is unique in its focus on measurement context and early experimentation demonstrates Marve's ability to gener…
A Survey on Explainable Reinforcement Learning: Concepts, Algorithms, Challenges
College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学计算与数据科学学院）；School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学软件技术学院）；State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Security, Zhejiang University（浙江大学区块链与安全国家重点实验室）
Mathematical reasoning would be one of the next frontiers for artificial intelligence to make significant progress. The ongoing surge to solve math word problems (MWPs) and hence achieve better mathematical reasoning ability would continue to be a key line of research in the coming time. We inspect non-neural and neural methods to solve math word problems narrated in a natural language. We also highlight the ability of these methods to be generalizable, mathematically reasonable, interpretable, and explainable. Neural approaches dominate the current state of the art, and we survey them highlig…
German Aerospace Center (DLR)（德国航空航天中心（DLR））；University of Wuerzburg（维尔茨堡大学）
With the emergence of deep learning in the last years, new opportunities arose in Earth observation research. Nevertheless, they also brought with them new challenges. The data-hungry training processes of deep learning models demand large, resource expensive, annotated data sets and partly replaced knowledge-driven approaches so that model behaviour and the final prediction process became a black box. The proposed SyntEO approach enables Earth observation researchers to automatically generate large deep learning ready data sets by merging existing and procedural data. SyntEO does this by incl…
