Good morning everyone.

I am working on a project where I have a dataset of images regarding an industrial product and I am currently classifying each image into two classes, let’s say [good, bad].

In order to correctly classify the images, I am currently applying the following techniques in this order: HOG + PCA + Random Forest Classifier.

My performance are really good, but I have the necessity to know a specific information, which is roughly the following: “this area of the image weight X% on the final classification”.

First of all, I am executing HOG, so the “area of the image” could be the HOG Cell. Then, I need to gather some feature importances. in order to get this information, Random Forest comes in handy because it will let you know the feature importances in percentage form, once trained. But here the problem arises: my features comes from a PCA. Now, is possible to execute an inverse transformation on a PCA output array and that will give you back the original features array before the application of PCA (which for me is the output of HOG).

In my scenario, will it make sense to apply the inverse transformation to the array of feature importances? And if not, which approach should I go for?

Thanks in advance!

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