CARE: Confidence-Aware Regression Estimation of building density fine-tuning EO Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13734v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:02:00 GMT
• Title: CARE: Confidence-Aware Regression Estimation of building density fine-tuning EO Foundation Models
• Authors: Nikolaos Dionelis, Jente Bosmans, Nicolas Longépé,
• Abstract summary: We develop, train and evaluate a model Confidence-Aware Regression Estimation (CARE) Our model CARE computes and assigns confidence to regression output results. We evaluate the proposed model CARE and experimental results on data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite constellation for estimating the density of buildings.
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• Abstract: Performing accurate confidence quantification and assessment is important for deep neural networks to predict their failures, improve their performance and enhance their capabilities in real-world applications, for their practical deployment in real life. For pixel-wise regression tasks, confidence quantification and assessment has not been well addressed in the literature, in contrast to classification tasks like semantic segmentation. The softmax output layer is not used in deep neural networks that solve pixel-wise regression problems. In this paper, to address these problems, we develop, train and evaluate the proposed model Confidence-Aware Regression Estimation (CARE). Our model CARE computes and assigns confidence to regression output results. We focus on solving regression problems as downstream tasks of an AI Foundation Model for Earth Observation (EO). We evaluate the proposed model CARE and experimental results on data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite constellation for estimating the density of buildings show that the proposed method can be successfully applied to regression problems. We also show that our approach outperforms other methods.

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