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Given multiple datasets with different label spaces, the goal of this work is to train a single object detector predicting over the union of all the label spaces. The practical benefits of such an object detector are obvious and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiangyun Zhao , Samuel Schulter , Gaurav Sharma , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Manmohan Chandraker , Ying Wu

Within the past decade, the rise of applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) in general and machine learning (ML) in specific has led to many significant contributions within different domains. The applications range from robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Christoph Sager , Patrick Zschech , Niklas Kühl

Training a robust classifier and an accurate box regressor are difficult for occluded pedestrian detection. Traditionally adopted Intersection over Union (IoU) measurement does not consider the occluded region of the object and leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Ruiqi Lu , Huimin Ma

The accuracy of object detectors and trackers is most commonly evaluated by the Intersection over Union (IoU) criterion. To date, most approaches are restricted to axis-aligned or oriented boxes and, as a consequence, many datasets are only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Tobias Bottger , Patrick Follmann , Michael Fauser

Accurate uncertainty estimates are essential for deploying deep object detectors in safety-critical systems. The development and evaluation of probabilistic object detectors have been hindered by shortcomings in existing performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Georg Hess , Christoffer Petersson , Lennart Svensson

Objects in aerial images are typically embedded in complex backgrounds and exhibit arbitrary orientations. When employing oriented bounding boxes (OBB) to represent arbitrary oriented objects, the periodicity of angles could lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mingkui Feng , Hancheng Yu , Xiaoyu Dang , Ming Zhou

Reliable uncertainty estimation for 3D object detection is critical for deploying safe autonomous systems, yet modern detectors remain poorly calibrated, especially under distribution shifts. Although post-hoc calibration methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Till Beemelmanns , Alexey Nekrasov , Stefan Vilceanu , Jonas Steinhaus , Timo Woopen , Bastian Leibe , Lutz Eckstein

Most object detection methods use bounding boxes to encode and represent the object shape and location. In this work, we explore a fuzzy representation of object regions using Gaussian distributions, which provides an implicit binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jeffri M. Llerena , Luis Felipe Zeni , Lucas N. Kristen , Claudio Jung

The uncertainty quantification of sensor measurements coupled with deep learning networks is crucial for many robotics systems, especially for safety-critical applications such as self-driving cars. This paper develops an uncertainty…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Qiyuan Wu , Mark Campbell

Safe navigation in new environments requires autonomous vehicles and robots to accurately interpret their surroundings, relying on LiDAR scene segmentation, out-of-distribution (OOD) obstacle detection, and uncertainty computation. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Hanieh Shojaei , Qianqian Zou , Max Mehltretter

Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection (UDA-OD) uses unlabelled data to improve the reliability of robotic vision systems in open-world environments. Previous approaches to UDA-OD based on self-training have been effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Christopher Lehnert

Technological and computational advances continuously drive forward the broad field of deep learning. In recent years, the derivation of quantities describing theuncertainty in the prediction - which naturally accompanies the modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Christoph Koller , Göran Kauermann , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Road object detection is an important branch of automatic driving technology, The model with higher detection accuracy is more conducive to the safe driving of vehicles. In road object detection, the omission of small objects and occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Tao Yang , Youyu Wu , Yangxintai Tang

Autonomous driving (AD) operates in open-world scenarios, where encountering unknown objects is inevitable. However, standard object detectors trained on a limited number of base classes tend to ignore any unknown objects, posing potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Lars Schmarje , Kaspar Sakman , Reinhard Koch , Dan Zhang

Object detection has been applied in a wide variety of real world scenarios, so detection algorithms must provide confidence in the results to ensure that appropriate decisions can be made based on their results. Accordingly, several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Sanghun Park , Kunhee Kim , Eunseop Lee , Daijin Kim

Object detection in autonomous driving applications implies that the detection and tracking of semantic objects are commonly native to urban driving environments, as pedestrians and vehicles. One of the major challenges in state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 G. Melotti , W. Lu , P. Conde , D. Zhao , A. Asvadi , N. Gonçalves , C. Premebida

3D object detection is an essential task for achieving autonomous driving. Existing anchor-based detection methods rely on empirical heuristics setting of anchors, which makes the algorithms lack elegance. In recent years, we have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xin Zhou , Jinghua Hou , Tingting Yao , Dingkang Liang , Zhe Liu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Jianwei Cheng , Xiang Bai

The superior performance of object detectors is often established under the condition that the test samples are in the same distribution as the training data. However, in many practical applications, out-of-distribution (OOD) instances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Tianhao Zhang , Shenglin Wang , Nidhal Bouaynaya , Radu Calinescu , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Semantic segmentation models trained on known object classes often fail in real-world autonomous driving scenarios by confidently misclassifying unknown objects. While pixel-wise out-of-distribution detection can identify unknown objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Marc Hölle , Walter Kellermann , Vasileios Belagiannis

Despite the importance of unsupervised object detection, to the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work addressing this problem. One main issue, widely known to the community, is that object boundaries derived only from 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hao Tian , Yuntao Chen , Jifeng Dai , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xizhou Zhu