arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 8

Conformal Prediction Sets for Instance Segmentation

arXiv:2602. 10045v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current instance segmentation models achieve high performance on average predictions, but lack principled uncertainty quantification: their outputs are not calibrated, and there is no guarantee that a predicted mask is close to the ground truth.

By Kerri Lu, Dan M. Kluger, Stephen Bates, Sherrie Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 20

The Impact of CutMix on Reliability and Robustness in Semantic Segmentation

The paper investigates how the CutMix data augmentation technique affects reliability and robustness in semantic segmentation. It evaluates two architectures—CNN-based DeepLabV3+ and transformer-based SegFormer—on both in-domain and out-of-domain data. Results show that CutMix has a minor effect on segmentation accuracy but consistently improves reliability, especially under distribution shifts, by enhancing calibration and uncertainty quality.

By Steven Landgraf, Markus Ulrich
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

A Framework for Low-Effort Training Data Generation for Urban Semantic Segmentation

The paper introduces a framework that adapts a diffusion model to a target urban domain using only imperfect pseudo‑labels, enabling the generation of high‑fidelity, target‑aligned images from semantic maps of any synthetic dataset. By filtering poor generations, correcting image‑label misalignments, and standardising semantics, the method transforms low‑effort synthetic data into competitive real‑domain training sets. Experiments on five synthetic and two real datasets show up to +8.0 %pt mIoU improvement over state‑of‑the‑art translation methods, demonstrating that rapidly constructed synthetic datasets can match the performance of high‑effort, manually designed ones.

By Damjan Kal\v{s}an, Denis Zavadski, Tim K\"uchler, Haebom Lee, Stefan Roth, Carsten Rother