Is high accuracy enough? Or is the "black box" problem the biggest bottleneck for AI in critical sectors like
#defense and
#medical or
#finance ?
In fields like defense where the margin of error is zero, it's not enough for a deep learning model to just be "correct." It must explain how and where it looked to make that decision. In our new paper published in the Scopus-indexed El-Cezeri Journal, we tackled this exact issue.
Placing Explainable AI (
#XAI) at the absolute center of our methodology, we introduced an Attention-ResUNet architecture for detecting heavily camouflaged military targets. Here is a breakdown of our approach in the attached images:
🔍 Transparent Decisions: By integrating "Attention Coefficients" into our ResNet-50 backbone, we mathematically proved exactly where the network focuses during prediction, effectively shattering the black box.
⚙️ Robust Pipeline: Our end-to-end reproducible workflow from raw ACD1K dataset loading to final evaluation.
📈 Proven Performance: Driven by CLAHE preprocessing and Adam optimization, we achieved a 98.32% Accuracy. We proved that transparency doesn't mean sacrificing performance.
Explainability in AI is no longer an optional add-on; it must be the core. Huge thanks to my students for their exceptional work.
🔗 Read the full paper:
dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/ecjs…
#DeepLearning #ExplainableAI #XAI #ComputerVision #ObjectDetection #MachineLearning #ImageSegmentation #DefenseTech #ArtificialIntelligence