SAFE: Sensitivity-aware features for out-of-distribution object detection

S Wilson, T Fischer, F Dayoub… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
We address the problem of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection for the task of object
detection. We show that residual convolutional layers with batch normalisation produce …

Monitoring of perception systems: Deterministic, probabilistic, and learning-based fault detection and identification

P Antonante, HG Nilsen, L Carlone - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates runtime monitoring of perception systems. Perception is a critical
component of high-integrity applications of robotics and autonomous systems, such as self …

Maize tassel number and tasseling stage monitoring based on near-ground and UAV RGB images by improved YoloV8

X Yu, D Yin, H Xu, F Pinto Espinosa, U Schmidhalter… - Precision …, 2024 - Springer
The monitoring of the tassel number and tasseling time reflects the maize growth and is
necessary for crop management. However, it mainly depends on field observations, which is …

Safety Helmet‐Wearing Detection System for Manufacturing Workshop Based on Improved YOLOv7

X Chen, Q Xie - Journal of Sensors, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Safety helmets play a vital role in protecting workers' heads. In order to improve the accuracy
of the detection model in complex environments, such as complex backgrounds and …

Task-aware risk estimation of perception failures for autonomous vehicles

P Antonante, S Veer, K Leung, X Weng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Safety and performance are key enablers for autonomous driving: on the one hand we want
our autonomous vehicles (AVs) to be safe, while at the same time their performance (eg …

Why object detectors fail: Investigating the influence of the dataset

D Miller, G Goode, C Bennie… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
A false negative in object detection describes an object that was not correctly localised and
classified by a detector. In concurrent work, we introduced five'false negative mechanisms' …

Enhancing your trained detrs with box refinement

Y Chen, Q Chen, P Sun, S Chen, J Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We present a conceptually simple, efficient, and general framework for localization problems
in DETR-like models. We add plugins to well-trained models instead of inefficiently …

Perception simplex: Verifiable collision avoidance in autonomous vehicles amidst obstacle detection faults

A Bansal, H Kim, S Yu, B Li… - Software Testing …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in deep learning have revolutionized cyber‐physical applications, including the
development of autonomous vehicles. However, real‐world collisions involving autonomous …

Synergistic perception and control simplex for verifiable safe vertical landing

A Bansal, Y Zhao, J Zhu, S Cheng, Y Gu… - AIAA Scitech 2024 …, 2024 - arc.aiaa.org
Perception, Planning, and Control form the essential components of autonomy in advanced
air mobility. This work advances the holistic integration of these components to enhance the …

Revealing Similar Semantics Inside CNNs: An Interpretable Concept-based Comparison of Feature Spaces

G Mikriukov, G Schwalbe, C Hellert, K Bade - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Safety-critical applications require transparency in artificial intelligence (AI) components, but
widely used convolutional neural networks (CNNs) widely used for perception tasks lack …