arXiv:2605.24722cs.CV2026-05

无需真实标注,通过标注者分歧校准检测器置信度。

Calibrating Probabilistic Object Detectors with Annotator Disagreement

论文配图:Calibrating Probabilistic Object Detectors with Annotator Disagreement
图 1 · 摘自论文原文
  • 基于标注者分歧设计校准框架,无需真实标签。
  • 在医学与自然图像上提升检测器置信度与定位方差准确性。
  • 适用于YOLO等主流检测器,适合模糊目标场景

对于模糊物体(如医学图像中的病变),标注者间存在高度分歧,导致难以确立客观真值。现有检测器均依赖真值进行训练或评估,但本文针对这一挑战提出可解释的概率检测器校准方法:将类别置信度和边界框方差估计对齐至标注者注释分布。设计四种评估指标衡量分类与定位校准误差,提出训练时与事后校准器,全程无需真值。该框架可泛化至YOLO系列及两阶段检测器。在真实与合成的医学与自然图像数据集上,三种主流检测器均验证了其优越性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

High degrees of disagreement among annotators can exist for ambiguous objects, e.g. in medical images, underscoring the challenges of establishing ground truth annotations in object detection tasks. Despite this, all existing object detectors implicitly require access to ground truth annotations for either training or evaluation. The fundamental questions we target are: How can we learn an object detector with multiple annotators' annotations but without objective ground truth annotations due to object ambiguity, and how can we enable the learned detector to express meaningful model predictive uncertainties in detecting ambiguous objects? To answer these questions, we present an interpretable approach to calibrate probabilistic object detectors, where the calibration goal is to align the class confidence and bounding box variance estimates to the annotators' annotation distribution. We introduce an efficient yet effective framework to calibrate probabilistic object detectors by designing four evaluation metrics to measure calibration errors regarding classification and localization, and proposing a train-time calibration and post-hoc calibrator, all without the need to access any ground truth. This framework is generalizable to many existing probabilistic object detectors, such as the YOLO families and two-stage detectors. Empirical results with real-world and synthetic datasets of medical and natural images demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed framework with three popular object detectors.

目标检测不确定性医学图像校准

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