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Sampling-Free Epistemic Uncertainty Estimation Using Approximated Variance Propagation
Ist Teil von
2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, p.2931-2940
Ort / Verlag
IEEE
Erscheinungsjahr
2019
Quelle
IEEE Xplore
Beschreibungen/Notizen
We present a sampling-free approach for computing the epistemic uncertainty of a neural network. Epistemic uncertainty is an important quantity for the deployment of deep neural networks in safety-critical applications, since it represents how much one can trust predictions on new data. Recently promising works were proposed using noise injection combined with Monte-Carlo sampling at inference time to estimate this quantity (e.g. Monte-Carlo dropout). Our main contribution is an approximation of the epistemic uncertainty estimated by these methods that does not require sampling, thus notably reducing the computational overhead. We apply our approach to large-scale visual tasks (\ie, semantic segmentation and depth regression) to demonstrate the advantages of our method compared to sampling-based approaches in terms of quality of the uncertainty estimates as well as of computational overhead.