Scalable uncertainty for computer vision with functional variational
inference
inference
Author(s)
Carvalho, Eduardo DC
Clark, Ronald
Nicastro, Andrea
Kelly, Paul HJ
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
As Deep Learning continues to yield successful applications in Computer
Vision, the ability to quantify all forms of uncertainty is a paramount
requirement for its safe and reliable deployment in the real-world. In this
work, we leverage the formulation of variational inference in function space,
where we associate Gaussian Processes (GPs) to both Bayesian CNN priors and
variational family. Since GPs are fully determined by their mean and covariance
functions, we are able to obtain predictive uncertainty estimates at the cost
of a single forward pass through any chosen CNN architecture and for any
supervised learning task. By leveraging the structure of the induced covariance
matrices, we propose numerically efficient algorithms which enable fast
training in the context of high-dimensional tasks such as depth estimation and
semantic segmentation. Additionally, we provide sufficient conditions for
constructing regression loss functions whose probabilistic counterparts are
compatible with aleatoric uncertainty quantification.
Vision, the ability to quantify all forms of uncertainty is a paramount
requirement for its safe and reliable deployment in the real-world. In this
work, we leverage the formulation of variational inference in function space,
where we associate Gaussian Processes (GPs) to both Bayesian CNN priors and
variational family. Since GPs are fully determined by their mean and covariance
functions, we are able to obtain predictive uncertainty estimates at the cost
of a single forward pass through any chosen CNN architecture and for any
supervised learning task. By leveraging the structure of the induced covariance
matrices, we propose numerically efficient algorithms which enable fast
training in the context of high-dimensional tasks such as depth estimation and
semantic segmentation. Additionally, we provide sufficient conditions for
constructing regression loss functions whose probabilistic counterparts are
compatible with aleatoric uncertainty quantification.
Date Acceptance
2020-02-24
Citation
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp.12003-12013
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
12003
End Page
12013
Journal / Book Title
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Copyright Statement
© 2020 The Auhtor(s). This CVPR 2020 paper is the Open Access version, provided by the Computer Vision Foundation.
Sponsor
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03396v1
Grant Number
EP/P010040/1
Source
CVPR 2020
Subjects
cs.CV
cs.CV
cs.LG
Notes
CVPR 2020
Publication Status
Published online
Start Date
2020-06-14
Finish Date
2020-06-19
Date Publish Online
2020-06-19