$α$-OCC: Uncertainty-Aware Camera-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

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Main Authors: Su, Sanbao, Chen, Nuo, Lin, Chenchen, Juefei-Xu, Felix, Feng, Chen, Miao, Fei
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author Su, Sanbao
Chen, Nuo
Lin, Chenchen
Juefei-Xu, Felix
Feng, Chen
Miao, Fei
author_facet Su, Sanbao
Chen, Nuo
Lin, Chenchen
Juefei-Xu, Felix
Feng, Chen
Miao, Fei
contents In the realm of autonomous vehicle perception, comprehending 3D scenes is paramount for tasks such as planning and mapping. Camera-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction (OCC) aims to infer scene geometry and semantics from limited observations. While it has gained popularity due to affordability and rich visual cues, existing methods often neglect the inherent uncertainty in models. To address this, we propose an uncertainty-aware OCC method ($α$-OCC). We first introduce Depth-UP, an uncertainty propagation framework that improves geometry completion by up to 11.58\% and semantic segmentation by up to 12.95\% across various OCC models. For uncertainty quantification (UQ), we propose the hierarchical conformal prediction (HCP) method, effectively handling the high-level class imbalance in OCC datasets. On the geometry level, the novel KL-based score function significantly improves the occupied recall (45\%) of safety-critical classes with minimal performance overhead (3.4\% reduction). On UQ, our HCP achieves smaller prediction set sizes while maintaining the defined coverage guarantee. Compared with baselines, it reduces up to 92\% set size, with 18\% further reduction when integrated with Depth-UP. Our contributions advance OCC accuracy and robustness, marking a noteworthy step forward in autonomous perception systems.
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spellingShingle $α$-OCC: Uncertainty-Aware Camera-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
Su, Sanbao
Chen, Nuo
Lin, Chenchen
Juefei-Xu, Felix
Feng, Chen
Miao, Fei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In the realm of autonomous vehicle perception, comprehending 3D scenes is paramount for tasks such as planning and mapping. Camera-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction (OCC) aims to infer scene geometry and semantics from limited observations. While it has gained popularity due to affordability and rich visual cues, existing methods often neglect the inherent uncertainty in models. To address this, we propose an uncertainty-aware OCC method ($α$-OCC). We first introduce Depth-UP, an uncertainty propagation framework that improves geometry completion by up to 11.58\% and semantic segmentation by up to 12.95\% across various OCC models. For uncertainty quantification (UQ), we propose the hierarchical conformal prediction (HCP) method, effectively handling the high-level class imbalance in OCC datasets. On the geometry level, the novel KL-based score function significantly improves the occupied recall (45\%) of safety-critical classes with minimal performance overhead (3.4\% reduction). On UQ, our HCP achieves smaller prediction set sizes while maintaining the defined coverage guarantee. Compared with baselines, it reduces up to 92\% set size, with 18\% further reduction when integrated with Depth-UP. Our contributions advance OCC accuracy and robustness, marking a noteworthy step forward in autonomous perception systems.
title $α$-OCC: Uncertainty-Aware Camera-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11021