arxivcs.CV2026-07-06
VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models
Suranjana Sooraj, Xuyang Chen, Madhumitha Venkatesan, Dongyu Liu
Rendering time series as chart images for CNN-based classification has become increasingly common in time-series classification (TSC). However, it remains unclear whether models learn underlying temporal patterns or rely on encoding-specific visual cues introduced by chart design…