提出新校准框架,让目标检测的置信度更准确反映坐标精度。
Rethinking Detection Calibration: A Coordinate and Direction Perspective

- 从坐标与方向角度重新定义检测校准,关注具体位置误差。
- 在多种场景下,坐标级置信度比传统方法更精确。
- 适合需要高精度定位的视觉系统,如自动驾驶。
基于深度学习的目标检测器不仅需要优异的检测性能,还需具备可信性,但深度神经网络容易产生过度自信的预测,为可能错误的预测分配过高的置信度。现有方法通常基于边界框级别的定位(如与真实框的精确度或交并比)进行置信度校准,但仅反映预测框与真实框的一致性,无法捕捉坐标本身的定位精度。为此,本文提出一种新的后处理校准框架——ReDC(Rethinking Detection Calibration),提供包含方向信息的坐标级置信度。该框架定义了预测与真实值之间的坐标对齐程度及偏差方向;基于对齐度进行置信度重编码,生成可靠的坐标级置信度;同时通过方向位移估计预测坐标级偏差方向。大量实验表明,在域内与域外场景下,该方法能更精准地表达检测目标的坐标级定位能力。此外,本方法通过聚合坐标级置信度实现对已有校准方法的覆盖,可还原为框级定位表现。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep learning based object detectors require trustworthiness beyond competitive detection performance, but deep neural networks are prone to overconfident predictions, assigning high confidence scores to predictions that are likely to be inaccurate. To improve the alignment between confidence scores and prediction accuracy, existing methods calibrate confidence scores based on box-level localization, such as precision or intersection over union with the ground truth bounding box. However, box-level localization reflects only a measure of agreement between the predicted box and the ground truth, resulting in calibrated confidence scores for box-level accuracy failing to capture the localization accuracy of coordinates of box. To tackle this issue, we propose a novel post-hoc calibration framework, rethinking detection calibration (ReDC), which provides reliable coordinate-level confidence scores, including directional information. The proposed framework defines coordinate-wise alignment and deviation direction between predictions and ground truth. Based on the alignment measure, confidence re-encoding produces reliable coordinate-level confidence scores, while directional displacement estimation predicts coordinate-wise deviation directions. Extensive experiments under in-domain and out-domain scenarios demonstrate that the proposed approach expresses the coordinate-wise localization of detected objects more precisely than existing methods. Furthermore, our method covers the representational scope of prior calibration approaches by aggregating coordinate-level confidence scores into box-level localization.
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