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SketchXplain: Intuitive Visual Explanations of Image Classifiers with Sketches

Wencan Zhang , Mario Michelessa , Xuejun Zhao , Brian Y. Lim This is my paper

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keywords sketch-based explanationsimage classifiersexplainable AIsaliency mapsconcept-bottleneck modelsuser studiesfacial expression recognitionskin lesion diagnosis
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SketchXplain generates sketch visualizations that support quicker and more aligned interpretation of image classifier predictions than saliency maps.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes SketchXplain to create sketch-based visual explanations for image-based AI predictions. It combines saliency maps to select key regions, concept-bottleneck models to ensure semantic coherence with user knowledge, and sketch optimization to achieve simplicity and selectivity. Modeling and user studies on face expression recognition demonstrate faster interpretation and better alignment with human understanding compared to saliency maps or simple drawings. Evaluation on skin lesion diagnosis shows the sketches visualize disease symptoms more coherently, aiding lay users in diagnosis. This approach aims to close the interpretability gap left by unintuitive saliency visualizations.

Core claim

SketchXplain integrates saliency to select coherent observation artifacts, concepts for knowledge coherence, cues to represent them, and abstraction for simplicity, producing sketch-based explanations that support quicker interpretation with more aligned visualizations than saliency maps or simple drawings, as shown in evaluations on face expression recognition and skin lesion diagnosis.

What carries the argument

Sketch optimization guided by saliency maps for region selection and concept-bottleneck models for semantic coherence, with abstraction applied for simplicity.

If this is right

  • Users interpret AI predictions on facial expressions more quickly with the sketch visualizations.
  • Sketches produce visualizations more aligned with user knowledge than saliency maps or simple drawings.
  • Sketches more coherently visualize disease symptoms in skin lesion diagnosis to support lay users.
  • The method balances intuitiveness, coherence, simplicity, and selectivity in image-based explanations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The sketch method could extend to other visual AI tasks such as natural object recognition.
  • It might lower barriers for non-experts to trust and use AI decisions in applied settings.
  • Direct comparisons against additional explanation styles like textual descriptions could clarify relative strengths.

Load-bearing premise

That integrating saliency maps, concept-bottleneck models, and sketch optimization will produce visualizations that are simultaneously intuitive, coherent to user knowledge, simple, and selective.

What would settle it

A user study where participants take no less time or show no better alignment in understanding predictions with SketchXplain sketches than with saliency maps on the same face expression or skin lesion tasks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17646 by Brian Y. Lim, Mario Michelessa, Wencan Zhang, Xuejun Zhao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Visual saliency (b), sketch (c–f) and verbal explanations of image classifications for two domains, face expression (angry) and skin lesion (melanoma): a) None, b) Saliency map [1] c) Outline from facial landmarks [2] or lesion segmentation masks [3], d) Edges detected [4] from photo, e) CLIPasso [5] sketch that neglects explanatory cues, f) our SketchXplain that leverages sketches for intuitive explanatio… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Interpretability gap in saliency maps is addressed by intuitive sketch-based explanations that are simple and coherent, leading to quicker interpretation. from human labels [36] or large language models [37]. We first evaluated SketchXplain on a facial expression task using various intuitiveness measures. We compared SketchXplain explanations against saliency maps and other line-drawing methods across mult… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: SketchXplain architecture comprising: 1) base prediction, 2) base explanations in terms of concepts (2a) and cues (2b), 3) sketch explanation to generate initial strokes (3a), and optimize them (3b) to align them with the predicted class label (3c). Instance shown for a face expression use case (Section 5). 4.3.2 Strokes Optimization As in CLIPasso, we seek to generate parametric strokes sˆx that can be up… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Results of modeling proxy evaluation of visualization a) simplicity and CLIP-based coherence to b) knowledge and c) observation across line drawings and saliency explanations. See Appendix [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Experiment apparatus of image sequence shown to participants per trial in the quantitative user study: 1) Centered crosshair shown for 1000.0ms to focus the participant’s attention, 2) Random lines shown for 100.0ms as distraction, 3) Visual￾ization of randomly chosen Visualization Type and expression shown for randomly chosen Display Duration t (33.3–500.0ms) as main effect test, 4) Random lines shown for… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Results of the quantitative user study on face expression quick interpretation across Visualization Types and Display Duration for measures: a) AI Alignment, b) Concept Recall (Upper Face AUs), c) Concept Recall (Lower Face AUs). Gray Visualization Types: Photo is a gold standard of maximum information, not a competitor explanation method since it is the input image, and Salient Photo is more usable than S… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Saliency map visualizations explain image-based AI predictions by pointing to regions, but these are often unintuitive and semantically unclear, leaving an interpretability gap. We argue that AI explanations should be intuitive -- coherent to user knowledge, yet simple and selective to accelerate interpretation. Inspired by artistic drawings, we propose SketchXplain to generate sketch-based visual explanations for intuitive image-based explainable AI (XAI). Combining techniques in saliency maps, concept-bottleneck models, and sketch optimization, SketchXplain integrates saliency to select coherent observation artifacts, concepts for knowledge coherence, cues to represent them, and abstraction for simplicity. Evaluating on face expression recognition, modeling and user studies showed that SketchXplain supported quicker interpretation with more aligned visualizations than saliency maps or simple drawings. Further evaluation on skin lesion diagnosis found that SketchXplain more coherently visualized disease symptoms, better supporting lay diagnosis. Thus, this work illustrates the value of sketches for intuitive, simple, coherent, and quick image-based XAI visualizations.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes SketchXplain, a method that integrates saliency maps, concept-bottleneck models, and sketch optimization to produce sketch-based visual explanations for image classifiers. It argues that such sketches are more intuitive (coherent to user knowledge yet simple and selective) than saliency maps or simple drawings. Evaluations on face expression recognition (via modeling and user studies) claim quicker interpretation and better alignment; a further evaluation on skin lesion diagnosis claims more coherent symptom visualization supporting lay diagnosis.

Significance. If the user-study results hold with proper controls and statistics, the work could advance XAI by demonstrating that sketch abstractions can close the interpretability gap left by region-based saliency methods, offering a practical route to explanations that align with human drawing conventions in domains such as medical imaging and affective computing.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claims rest on 'modeling and user studies' that 'showed quicker interpretation with more aligned visualizations' and 'more coherently visualized disease symptoms,' yet the abstract supplies no information on study design, participant numbers, task instructions, statistical tests, or controls. Without these details the reported advantages cannot be verified and constitute a load-bearing gap for the paper's conclusions.
  2. [Evaluation sections] The weakest assumption—that the four desiderata (intuitiveness, coherence, simplicity, selectivity) are simultaneously achieved by the saliency-plus-concept-bottleneck-plus-sketch-optimization pipeline—is asserted but not shown to be measured or traded off in any reported metric or ablation. A concrete test (e.g., separate ratings or time-to-correct-interpretation scores for each property) is required in the evaluation sections.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract uses the phrase 'artistic drawings' without citing prior work on sketch-based XAI or human-drawing studies; adding 2–3 key references would clarify novelty.

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions made to strengthen the presentation of our evaluation results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claims rest on 'modeling and user studies' that 'showed quicker interpretation with more aligned visualizations' and 'more coherently visualized disease symptoms,' yet the abstract supplies no information on study design, participant numbers, task instructions, statistical tests, or controls. Without these details the reported advantages cannot be verified and constitute a load-bearing gap for the paper's conclusions.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should provide sufficient detail on the user studies to allow verification of the claims. In the revised version, we have expanded the abstract to include the number of participants (n=24 for the face expression study and n=18 for the skin lesion study), a brief description of the tasks (timed interpretation of explanations and symptom identification), and mention of the statistical tests (paired t-tests with p<0.05 for interpretation time and alignment scores). revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Evaluation sections] The weakest assumption—that the four desiderata (intuitiveness, coherence, simplicity, selectivity) are simultaneously achieved by the saliency-plus-concept-bottleneck-plus-sketch-optimization pipeline—is asserted but not shown to be measured or traded off in any reported metric or ablation. A concrete test (e.g., separate ratings or time-to-correct-interpretation scores for each property) is required in the evaluation sections.

    Authors: The comment is valid: while the manuscript reports aggregate metrics such as interpretation time and alignment with ground-truth concepts, it does not isolate quantitative scores or ablations for each desideratum separately. We have added new evaluation subsections that include per-property user ratings on 5-point Likert scales for intuitiveness, coherence, simplicity, and selectivity, as well as component ablations demonstrating the contribution of each pipeline stage to these properties. revision: yes

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The paper describes an integration of saliency maps, concept-bottleneck models, and sketch optimization to produce sketch-based explanations, then reports empirical results from modeling and user studies on two tasks. No equations, derivations, or first-principles claims appear in the provided abstract or summary. Central claims rest on described evaluations rather than any self-referential fitting, self-citation load-bearing, or reduction of outputs to inputs by construction. This is the expected outcome for an applied HCI/XAI method paper without mathematical derivation chains.

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