University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs

An object detector trained exclusively on urban images might mistake a moose for a pedestrian and express high confidence in its poor judgment. New work enables object detectors, and potentially other neural networks, to lower their confidence when they encounter unfamiliar inputs.

June 1, 20222 min read
Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Right-Sizing Confidence: Object Detector Lowers Confidence for Unfamiliar Inputs

An object detector trained exclusively on urban images might mistake a moose for a pedestrian and express high confidence in its poor judgment. New work enables object detectors, and potentially other neural networks, to lower their confidence when they encounter unfamiliar inputs.

June 1, 20222 min read

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