Summary of Calib3d: Calibrating Model Preferences For Reliable 3d Scene Understanding, by Lingdong Kong and Xiang Xu and Jun Cen and Wenwei Zhang and Liang Pan and Kai Chen and Ziwei Liu
Calib3D: Calibrating Model Preferences for Reliable 3D Scene Understanding
by Lingdong Kong, Xiang Xu, Jun Cen, Wenwei Zhang, Liang Pan, Kai Chen, Ziwei Liu
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Robotics (cs.RO)
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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 Calib3D, a benchmarking framework that evaluates the reliability of 3D perception models in safety-critical tasks. It comprehensively tests 28 state-of-the-art models on 10 diverse datasets, uncovering insights into aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. The study finds that despite high accuracy levels, existing models often fail to provide reliable uncertainty estimates, a crucial issue for safety-sensitive applications. The authors identify key factors influencing model calibration efficacy, including network capacity, LiDAR representations, rasterization resolutions, and 3D data augmentation techniques. They also propose DeptS, a novel depth-aware scaling approach that enhances 3D model calibration. Extensive experiments validate the superiority of their method. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us understand how well computers can recognize and make sense of 3D scenes. It’s like asking Siri or Alexa to help you find your way around a new city. The researchers created a special tool called Calib3D that tests different computer models on many different kinds of 3D data. They found that even though the models are good at recognizing things, they don’t always know how sure they are about what they’ve seen. This is important because computers need to be able to tell us when they’re not confident in their answers. The researchers also came up with a new way to make the computer models better at estimating their own uncertainty. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Data augmentation
