The paper demonstrates that object detection benchmarks suffer from incomplete annotations, with re-annotation of COCO, Pascal VOC, Cityscapes, and KITTI revealing up to a 60% increase in detected objects, especially small, occluded, or densely packed instances. The authors propose a scalable annotation pipeline that uses multiple annotators per object to capture uncertainty and improve recall, and they introduce two new large-scale benchmarks: an uncertainty-aware detection benchmark and a label error detection benchmark based on real errors. Their findings show that benchmark performance is highly sensitive to annotation quality, yet model rankings remain largely unchanged, highlighting the need for uncertainty-aware evaluation to better reflect real-world ambiguity.
By Sarina Penquitt, Jonathan Klees, Antonia van Betteray, Parssa Jashnieh, Peter Stehr, Matthias Rottmann, Lars Schmarje
arXiv:2609.38010v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Modern computer vision models achieve high accuracy when trained on large-scale annotated datasets. In critical domains such as construction safety m...
By Mohamed Benkedadra, Aissa Saoudi, Maxime Gloesener, Sidi Ahmed Mahmoudi, Matei Mancas
OD3 introduces an optimization‑free dataset distillation framework tailored for object detection. The method first iteratively places object instances in synthesized images, then screens candidates with a pre‑trained observer model to discard low‑confidence objects. Applied to MS COCO and PASCAL VOC, OD3 achieves compression ratios from 0.25% to 5% and surpasses previous detection‑focused distillation methods by over 14% on COCO mAP50 at a 1.0% compression ratio.
By Salwa K. Al Khatib, Ahmed ElHagry, Shitong Shao, Zhiqiang Shen
arXiv:2605. 09697v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many real-world computer vision applications, including medical imaging and industrial inspection, binary classification tasks are characterized by a severe scarcity of positive samples.
By Radhika Amar Desai, Modigari Narendra
arXiv:2605. 30188v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable probability estimates are critical in many machine learning applications, yet modern classifiers are often poorly calibrated.
By Eug\`ene Berta, David Holzm\"uller, Francis Bach, Michael I. Jordan
Currently, autonomous driving object detection models face significant data scarcity and generalization challenges when navigating complex Chinese rural traffic scenarios. To address these limitations, we propose a novel real-synthetic mixed object detection dataset tailored specifically for Chinese rural roads and systematically evaluate the performance of 13 mainstream detectors under different real-to-synthetic data ratios, thereby providing empirical evidence for model selection and data strategy design in rural autonomous driving scenarios.