ProPanDL: A Modular Architecture for Uncertainty-Aware Panoptic Segmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08645v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:31:23 GMT
• Title: ProPanDL: A Modular Architecture for Uncertainty-Aware Panoptic Segmentation
• Authors: Jacob Deery, Chang Won Lee, Steven Waslander
• Abstract summary: We introduce ProPanDL, a family of networks capable of uncertainty-aware panoptic segmentation. We implement and evaluate ProPanDL variants capable of estimating both parametric (Variance Network) and parameter-free (SampleNet) distributions. Our results demonstrate that ProPanDL is capable of estimating well-calibrated and meaningful output distributions while still retaining strong performance on the base panoptic segmentation task.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce ProPanDL, a family of networks capable of uncertainty-aware panoptic segmentation. Unlike existing segmentation methods, ProPanDL is capable of estimating full probability distributions for both the semantic and spatial aspects of panoptic segmentation. We implement and evaluate ProPanDL variants capable of estimating both parametric (Variance Network) and parameter-free (SampleNet) distributions quantifying pixel-wise spatial uncertainty. We couple these approaches with two methods (Temperature Scaling and Evidential Deep Learning) for semantic uncertainty estimation. To evaluate the uncertainty-aware panoptic segmentation task, we address limitations with existing approaches by proposing new metrics that enable separate evaluation of spatial and semantic uncertainty. We additionally propose the use of the energy score, a proper scoring rule, for more robust evaluation of spatial output distributions. Using these metrics, we conduct an extensive evaluation of ProPanDL variants. Our results demonstrate that ProPanDL is capable of estimating well-calibrated and meaningful output distributions while still retaining strong performance on the base panoptic segmentation task.

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