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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Sandhya Bhaskar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Nikita Jaipuria, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jinesh Jain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shreyasha Paudel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A system and method includes determining uncertainty estimation in an object detection deep neural network (DNN) by retrieving a calibration dataset from a validation dataset that includes scores associated with all classes in an image, including a background (BG) class, determining background ground truth boxes in the calibration dataset by comparing ground truth boxes with detection boxes generated by the object detection DNN using an intersection over union (IoU) threshold, correcting for class imbalance between ground truth boxes and background ground truth boxes in a ground truth class by updating the ground truth class to include a number of background ground truth boxes based on a number of ground truth boxes in the ground truth class, estimating uncertainty of the object detection DNN based on the class imbalance correction, and updating output data sets of the object detection DNN based on the class imbalance correction.