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Main Authors: Caldeira, Madalena, Moreno, Plinio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01734
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author Caldeira, Madalena
Moreno, Plinio
author_facet Caldeira, Madalena
Moreno, Plinio
contents The Next Best View problem is a computer vision problem widely studied in robotics. To solve it, several methodologies have been proposed over the years. Some, more recently, propose the use of deep learning models. Predictions obtained with the help of deep learning models naturally have some uncertainty associated with them. Despite this, the standard models do not allow for their quantification. However, Bayesian estimation theory contributed to the demonstration that dropout layers allow to estimate prediction uncertainty in neural networks. This work adapts the point-net-based neural network for Next-Best-View (PC-NBV). It incorporates dropout layers into the model's architecture, thus allowing the computation of the uncertainty estimate associated with its predictions. The aim of the work is to improve the network's accuracy in correctly predicting the next best viewpoint, proposing a way to make the 3D reconstruction process more efficient. Two uncertainty measurements capable of reflecting the prediction's error and accuracy, respectively, were obtained. These enabled the reduction of the model's error and the increase in its accuracy from 30\% to 80\% by identifying and disregarding predictions with high values of uncertainty. Another method that directly uses these uncertainty metrics to improve the final prediction was also proposed. However, it showed very residual improvements.
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spellingShingle Next Best View For Point-Cloud Model Acquisition: Bayesian Approximation and Uncertainty Analysis
Caldeira, Madalena
Moreno, Plinio
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The Next Best View problem is a computer vision problem widely studied in robotics. To solve it, several methodologies have been proposed over the years. Some, more recently, propose the use of deep learning models. Predictions obtained with the help of deep learning models naturally have some uncertainty associated with them. Despite this, the standard models do not allow for their quantification. However, Bayesian estimation theory contributed to the demonstration that dropout layers allow to estimate prediction uncertainty in neural networks. This work adapts the point-net-based neural network for Next-Best-View (PC-NBV). It incorporates dropout layers into the model's architecture, thus allowing the computation of the uncertainty estimate associated with its predictions. The aim of the work is to improve the network's accuracy in correctly predicting the next best viewpoint, proposing a way to make the 3D reconstruction process more efficient. Two uncertainty measurements capable of reflecting the prediction's error and accuracy, respectively, were obtained. These enabled the reduction of the model's error and the increase in its accuracy from 30\% to 80\% by identifying and disregarding predictions with high values of uncertainty. Another method that directly uses these uncertainty metrics to improve the final prediction was also proposed. However, it showed very residual improvements.
title Next Best View For Point-Cloud Model Acquisition: Bayesian Approximation and Uncertainty Analysis
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.01734