An Uncertainty-aware DETR Enhancement Framework for Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14855v1
• Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:53:04 GMT
• Title: An Uncertainty-aware DETR Enhancement Framework for Object Detection
• Authors: Xingshu Chen, Sicheng Yu, Chong Cheng, Hao Wang, Ting Tian,
• Abstract summary: We propose an uncertainty-aware enhancement framework for DETR-based object detectors.<n>We derive a Bayes Risk formulation to filter high-risk information and improve detection reliability.<n> Experiments on the COCO benchmark show that our method can be effectively integrated into existing DETR variants.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper investigates the problem of object detection with a focus on improving both the localization accuracy of bounding boxes and explicitly modeling prediction uncertainty. Conventional detectors rely on deterministic bounding box regression, ignoring uncertainty in predictions and limiting model robustness. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty-aware enhancement framework for DETR-based object detectors. We model bounding boxes as multivariate Gaussian distributions and incorporate the Gromov-Wasserstein distance into the loss function to better align the predicted and ground-truth distributions. Building on this, we derive a Bayes Risk formulation to filter high-risk information and improve detection reliability. We also propose a simple algorithm to quantify localization uncertainty via confidence intervals. Experiments on the COCO benchmark show that our method can be effectively integrated into existing DETR variants, enhancing their performance. We further extend our framework to leukocyte detection tasks, achieving state-of-the-art results on the LISC and WBCDD datasets. These results confirm the scalability of our framework across both general and domain-specific detection tasks. Code page: https://github.com/ParadiseforAndaChen/An-Uncertainty-aware-DETR-Enhancement-Framework-for-Object-De tection.

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