Summary of Predictive Uncertainty Quantification For Bird’s Eye View Segmentation: a Benchmark and Novel Loss Function, by Linlin Yu et al.
Predictive Uncertainty Quantification for Bird’s Eye View Segmentation: A Benchmark and Novel Loss Function
by Linlin Yu, Bowen Yang, Tianhao Wang, Kangshuo Li, Feng Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 31 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a comprehensive benchmark for predictive uncertainty quantification in Bird’s Eye View (BEV) semantic segmentation, evaluating multiple methods across three popular datasets with three network architectures. The authors focus on the effectiveness of quantified uncertainty in detecting misclassified and out-of-distribution pixels while improving model calibration. They propose a novel loss function, Uncertainty-Focal-Cross-Entropy (UFCE), designed for highly imbalanced data, along with an uncertainty-scaling regularization term to improve uncertainty quantification and model calibration. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about using deep learning models to help self-driving cars make better decisions by understanding when the predictions might be wrong. The authors created a test set to see how well different methods can detect mistakes and improve the accuracy of the models. They found that some methods are better than others at detecting errors, but all have limitations. To fix this, they developed a new way to train the models, using a special type of loss function and regularization technique. This could help make self-driving cars more reliable and safe. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cross entropy » Deep learning » Loss function » Regularization » Semantic segmentation
