OCCUQ: Exploring Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for 3D Occupancy Prediction

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Hauptverfasser: Heidrich, Severin, Beemelmanns, Till, Nekrasov, Alexey, Leibe, Bastian, Eckstein, Lutz
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author Heidrich, Severin
Beemelmanns, Till
Nekrasov, Alexey
Leibe, Bastian
Eckstein, Lutz
author_facet Heidrich, Severin
Beemelmanns, Till
Nekrasov, Alexey
Leibe, Bastian
Eckstein, Lutz
contents Autonomous driving has the potential to significantly enhance productivity and provide numerous societal benefits. Ensuring robustness in these safety-critical systems is essential, particularly when vehicles must navigate adverse weather conditions and sensor corruptions that may not have been encountered during training. Current methods often overlook uncertainties arising from adversarial conditions or distributional shifts, limiting their real-world applicability. We propose an efficient adaptation of an uncertainty estimation technique for 3D occupancy prediction. Our method dynamically calibrates model confidence using epistemic uncertainty estimates. Our evaluation under various camera corruption scenarios, such as fog or missing cameras, demonstrates that our approach effectively quantifies epistemic uncertainty by assigning higher uncertainty values to unseen data. We introduce region-specific corruptions to simulate defects affecting only a single camera and validate our findings through both scene-level and region-level assessments. Our results show superior performance in Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection and confidence calibration compared to common baselines such as Deep Ensembles and MC-Dropout. Our approach consistently demonstrates reliable uncertainty measures, indicating its potential for enhancing the robustness of autonomous driving systems in real-world scenarios. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ika-rwth-aachen/OCCUQ .
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spellingShingle OCCUQ: Exploring Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for 3D Occupancy Prediction
Heidrich, Severin
Beemelmanns, Till
Nekrasov, Alexey
Leibe, Bastian
Eckstein, Lutz
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Autonomous driving has the potential to significantly enhance productivity and provide numerous societal benefits. Ensuring robustness in these safety-critical systems is essential, particularly when vehicles must navigate adverse weather conditions and sensor corruptions that may not have been encountered during training. Current methods often overlook uncertainties arising from adversarial conditions or distributional shifts, limiting their real-world applicability. We propose an efficient adaptation of an uncertainty estimation technique for 3D occupancy prediction. Our method dynamically calibrates model confidence using epistemic uncertainty estimates. Our evaluation under various camera corruption scenarios, such as fog or missing cameras, demonstrates that our approach effectively quantifies epistemic uncertainty by assigning higher uncertainty values to unseen data. We introduce region-specific corruptions to simulate defects affecting only a single camera and validate our findings through both scene-level and region-level assessments. Our results show superior performance in Out-of-Distribution (OoD) detection and confidence calibration compared to common baselines such as Deep Ensembles and MC-Dropout. Our approach consistently demonstrates reliable uncertainty measures, indicating its potential for enhancing the robustness of autonomous driving systems in real-world scenarios. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ika-rwth-aachen/OCCUQ .
title OCCUQ: Exploring Efficient Uncertainty Quantification for 3D Occupancy Prediction
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10605