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Vicinal learning for model calibration and distribution modelling. This project aims to address the overconfidence of current highly accurate large deep neural networks, ie., incorrect predictions fre

The Australian National University — Discovery Projects
Amount
Up to $490,699
Closes
Friday 31 December 2027
Status
unknown
Type
open opportunity
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Description

Vicinal learning for model calibration and distribution modelling. This project aims to address the overconfidence of current highly accurate large deep neural networks, ie., incorrect predictions frequently have high confidence. This project expects to develop new theoretical models of vicinal model calibration, that can be implemented as efficient fine-tuning, ensuring that confidence reduces away from ground truth data, to a uniform distribution for far away images. Expected outcomes are new model-calibration theory and techniques, for classification and dense prediction, improving out-of-distribution detection while ensuring adversarial robustness. This should provide significant benefits in reducing risk in vision systems, including safety-critical applications, e.g. bushfire detection.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 4603 - Computer Vision and Multimedia Computation. Lead: Prof Nicholas Barnes

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