Laines Schmalwasser, M.Sc.

Address: | Computer Vision Group |
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | |
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena | |
Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2 | |
07743 Jena | |
Germany | |
E-mail: | laines (dot) schmalwasser (at) dlr (dot) de |
Room: | 1212 |
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Curriculum Vitae
the Interpretability of Neural Networks”since 2022 | Research Associate / PhD Student | |
Computer Vision Group, Friedrich Schiller University Jena & | ||
Data Analysis and Intelligence Group, DLR Institute of Data Science, Jena | ||
Topic: “Discover and Explore High-level, Human-interpretable Concepts to Improve | ||
2020 – 2021 | Research Assistant | |
DLR Institute of Data Science, Jena | ||
Topic: “Exploration, Comparision and Validation of Probability Models and its Data” | ||
2017 – 2020 | M.Sc. Computer Science | |
Friedrich Schiller University Jena | ||
Master Thesis: “How to Visualize Gaussian Mixture Models” | ||
2013 – 2017 | B.Sc. Computer Science | |
2015 – 2017: Friedrich Schiller University Jena | ||
2013 – 2015: Free University Berlin |
Research Interests
- Deep Learning
- Explainable AI
- Analyzing Model Training
Projects
LOKI: Collaboration of Aviation Operators and AI Systems
In the project Collaboration of Aviation Operators and AI Systems (LOKI), we analyse approaches to collaboration between humans and AI systems. An important building block for this is the investigation of metrics for state detection of the human partners. In the project, we develop prototypes of domain-specific AI systems, such as the digital co-pilot, and use them to develop guidelines for the design of the interface between users and AI systems.
Publications
2024
Laines Schmalwasser, Jakob Gawlikowski, Joachim Denzler, Julia Niebling:
Exploiting Text-Image Latent Spaces for the Description of Visual Concepts.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Pages 109-125. 2024.
[bibtex] [doi] [abstract]
Exploiting Text-Image Latent Spaces for the Description of Visual Concepts.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Pages 109-125. 2024.
[bibtex] [doi] [abstract]
Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) offer insights into neural network decision-making by linking human friendly concepts to the model's internal feature extraction process. However, when a new set of CAVs is discovered, they must still be translated into a human understandable description. For image-based neural networks, this is typically done by visualizing the most relevant images of a CAV, while the determination of the concept is left to humans. In this work, we introduce an approach to aid the interpretation of newly discovered concept sets by suggesting textual descriptions for each CAV. This is done by mapping the most relevant images representing a CAV into a text-image embedding where a joint description of these relevant images can be computed. We propose utilizing the most relevant receptive fields instead of full images encoded. We demonstrate the capabilities of this approach in multiple experiments with and without given CAV labels, showing that the proposed approach provides accurate descriptions for the CAVs and reduces the challenge of concept interpretation.