Multivariate Confidence Calibration for Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2004.13546v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:17:41 GMT
• Title: Multivariate Confidence Calibration for Object Detection
• Authors: Fabian K\"uppers, Jan Kronenberger, Amirhossein Shantia, Anselm Haselhoff
• Abstract summary: We present a novel framework to measure and calibrate biased confidence estimates of object detection methods. Our approach allows, for the first time, to obtain calibrated confidence estimates with respect to image location and box scale. We show that our developed methods outperform state-of-the-art calibration models for the task of object detection.
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• Abstract: Unbiased confidence estimates of neural networks are crucial especially for safety-critical applications. Many methods have been developed to calibrate biased confidence estimates. Though there is a variety of methods for classification, the field of object detection has not been addressed yet. Therefore, we present a novel framework to measure and calibrate biased (or miscalibrated) confidence estimates of object detection methods. The main difference to related work in the field of classifier calibration is that we also use additional information of the regression output of an object detector for calibration. Our approach allows, for the first time, to obtain calibrated confidence estimates with respect to image location and box scale. In addition, we propose a new measure to evaluate miscalibration of object detectors. Finally, we show that our developed methods outperform state-of-the-art calibration models for the task of object detection and provides reliable confidence estimates across different locations and scales.

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