Object Detection With Probabilistic Guarantees: a Conformal Prediction Approach

Abstract

This preprint has not undergone peer review or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this contribution will appear in SAFECOMP 2022, LNCS 13415 proceedings.International audienceProviding reliable uncertainty quantification for complex visual tasks such as object detection is of utmost importance for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, tumor detection, etc. Conformal prediction methods offer simple yet practical means to build uncertainty estimations that come with probabilistic guarantees. In this paper we apply such methods to the task of object localization and illustrate our analysis on a pedestrian detection use-case. We highlight both theoretical and practical implications of our analysis