The State of Post-Hoc Local XAI Techniques for Image Processing: Challenges and Motivations
It addresses the need for interpretability in AI for users and developers, but is incremental as it synthesizes existing knowledge without novel contributions.
The paper reviews the motivations, challenges, and open problems in post-hoc local explainable AI (XAI) techniques for image processing, aiming to enhance transparency and trust in AI systems, but does not present new experimental results or concrete numbers.
As complex AI systems further prove to be an integral part of our lives, a persistent and critical problem is the underlying black-box nature of such products and systems. In pursuit of productivity enhancements, one must not forget the need for various technology to boost the overall trustworthiness of such AI systems. One example, which is studied extensively in this work, is the domain of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI). Research works in this scope are centred around the objective of making AI systems more transparent and interpretable, to further boost reliability and trust in using them. In this work, we discuss the various motivation for XAI and its approaches, the underlying challenges that XAI faces, and some open problems that we believe deserve further efforts to look into. We also provide a brief discussion of various XAI approaches for image processing, and finally discuss some future directions, to hopefully express and motivate the positive development of the XAI research space.