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Fuzzy Sets: A Key Towards Hybrid Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Image Understanding

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In this paper, we propose a basis for discussing the role of fuzzy sets theory in the context of explainable artificial intelligence. We advocate that combining several frameworks in artificial intelligence, including fuzzy sets theory, adopting a hybrid point of view both for knowledge and data representation and for reasoning, offers opportunities towards explainability. This idea is instantiated on the example of image understanding, expressed as a spatial reasoning problem.

I. Bloch—This work was partly supported by the author’s chair in Artificial Intelligence (Sorbonne Université and SCAI). A part of the work was performed while the author was with LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

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    These are only examples and similar approaches have been developed in other application domains, such as satellite imaging, video, music representations, etc.

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The author would like to thank all her co-authors, and to emphasize that the ideas summarized in this paper benefitted from many joint works with PhD candidates, post-doctoral researchers, colleagues in universities and research centers in several countries, with university hospitals, and with industrial partners.

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Bloch, I. (2023). Fuzzy Sets: A Key Towards Hybrid Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Image Understanding. In: Massanet, S., Montes, S., Ruiz-Aguilera, D., González-Hidalgo, M. (eds) Fuzzy Logic and Technology, and Aggregation Operators. EUSFLAT AGOP 2023 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39965-7_39

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