arXiv:2605.02380cs.CV2026-05

用不确定性主动指导特征优化,提升裂缝分割精度与速度

UnGAP: Uncertainty-Guided Affine Prompting for Real-Time Crack Segmentation

论文配图:UnGAP: Uncertainty-Guided Affine Prompting for Real-Time Crack Segmentation
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  • 将不确定性作为视觉提示,动态调节特征分布
  • 在复杂边界区域实现更高精度,推理速度达实时要求
  • 适合需要高精度实时监测的结构健康检测场景

实时裂缝分割对结构健康监测至关重要,但受光照变化、模糊和纹理模糊等随机不确定性影响。现有方法通常将不确定性估计视为事后分析的被动输出,未能将其反馈以优化特征表示。本文认为,针对裂缝分割的像素级异方差建模尤为合适,因裂缝由局部梯度定义而非全局语义。然而该方法存在结构优化病态:高预测方差会抑制损失梯度,导致模型忽略难样本,弱化复杂边界拟合。为此,提出UnGAP框架,建立不确定性估计与特征学习的闭环机制。核心是不确定性提示特征调制器(UPFM),将随机不确定性作为主动视觉提示,通过像素级仿射变换动态校准特征分布。关键在于,该机制将原本导致梯度抑制的高方差转化为模糊区域更强特征修正的正向信号。此外引入边界感知检测头以进一步提升预测精度。大量实验表明,UnGAP在保持实时推理速度的同时显著提升分割准确性,验证了将不确定性从被动度量转为活性校准工具的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Real-time crack segmentation is vital for structural health monitoring but is plagued by aleatoric uncertainties arising from varying lighting, blur, and texture ambiguity. Current uncertainty-aware approaches typically treat uncertainty estimation as a passive endpoint for post-hoc analysis, failing to close the loop by feeding this information back to refine feature representations. We contend that independent pixel-wise heteroscedastic modeling is uniquely suited for crack segmentation, as cracks are defined by fine-grained local gradients rather than the global semantic coherence relied upon in general object segmentation. However, this approach suffers from a structural optimization pathology: high predicted variance attenuates loss gradients, effectively causing the model to ignore difficult samples and under-fit complex boundaries. To address these challenges, we propose UnGAP, a novel framework that establishes a closed-loop mechanism between uncertainty estimation and feature learning. Central to our approach is the Uncertainty-Prompted Feature Modulator (UPFM), which treats aleatoric uncertainty as an active visual prompt rather than a mere output. UPFM dynamically calibrates feature distributions through pixel-wise affine transformations. Crucially, this mechanism mitigates the heteroscedastic pathology by transforming high variance, which would otherwise indicate gradient suppression, into a constructive signal for stronger feature rectification in ambiguous regions. Additionally, a boundary-aware detection head is introduced to further constrain prediction precision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UnGAP balances superior segmentation accuracy with real-time inference speed, effectively validating the benefit of transforming uncertainty from a passive metric into an active calibration tool.

裂缝分割不确定性建模实时推理特征调制

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