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Subject [IEEE CSVT] CUA Loss: Class Uncertainty-Aware Gradient Modulation for Robust Object Detection (by Jung Uk Kim) is accepted in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
Name IVY Lab. KAIST
Date 2020-11-23
CUA Loss: Class Uncertainty-Aware Gradient Modulation for Robust Object Detection

Authors: Jung Uk Kim, Seong Tae Kim, Hong Joo Lee, Sangmin Lee, and Yong Man Ro

Recently, a wide range of research on object detectionhas shown breakthrough performance. However, in a
challenging environment, such as occlusion and small object cases, object detectors still produce inaccurate or erroneous predictions. To effectively cope with such conditions, most of the existing methods have suggested loss functions to guide the object detectors by modulating the magnitude of their loss. However, when modulating the loss function, they are highly dependent on the classification score of the object detector. It is a known fact that deep neural networks tend to be overconfident in their predictions. In this paper, to alleviate the problem of the object detectors which heavily rely on the prediction in the training phase, we devise a novel loss function called class uncertainty-aware (CUA) loss. CUA loss considers the predictive ambiguity as well as the predictions on classification score when modulating loss function. In addition to the classification score, CUA loss further modulates the loss gradient in an increasing way when the object detectors output an uncertain prediction. Therefore, object detectors with CUA loss effectively cope with challenging environments where prediction result is uncertain. With comprehensive experiments on three public datasets (i.e. PASCAL VOC, MS COCO, and Berkeley DeepDrive), we verified that our CUA loss enhanced the accuracy of the object detectors and outperformed previous state-of-the-art loss functions.