Writing study: Automated Model Evaluation for Object Detection via Prediction Consistency and Reliability
← ICCV 2025 oral writing corpus
Seungju Yoo, Hyuk Kwon, Joong-Won Hwang, Kibok Lee · Official ICCV 2025 oral record
Figure, table and section ledger
Editorial contribution type: Empirical analysis, diagnosis & auditing (primary).
Layout extraction, not a required paper template. Counts are distinct caption labels; a multi-panel figure counts once. Section spans are estimated from heading positions, including floats and whitespace. Method and limitations.
- Canonical PDF
- 10 physical pages
- Before references / appendix
- ≈ 8.12 page-equivalents
- Main figures / tables
- 6 / 7
- Attached appendix figures / tables
- 0 / 0
- Attached appendix span
- No boundary detected; not assumed zero
Extraction notes: No attached appendix boundary detected. Zero means no recognized caption, not independently verified absence.
Source-bound correction: Raster checks on pp.4,7,8 restore Figure3, whose label is followed by a panel marker without a period, and the side-by-side Tables3 and5 lost in merged caption lines. Main has Figures1–7 and Tables1–7; positions use glyph coordinates except the visually located Figure3.
Section-by-section lengths and source pages
The title/abstract/front matter precede the first numbered heading. A span ends at the next detected top-level heading, not at the last sentence; end-page whitespace is included. References and statements are listed separately. These are not measurements of text-only or artwork area.
| Top-level heading | Starts on PDF page | Estimated span | Share of entire PDF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Introduction | 1 | ≈ 1.3 pp. | 13% |
| 2. Related Work | 2 | ≈ 0.78 pp. | 7.8% |
| 3. Prediction Consistency and Reliability | 3 | ≈ 2.48 pp. | 24.8% |
| 4. Corruption-Based Meta-Dataset | 5 | ≈ 0.66 pp. | 6.6% |
| 5. Experiments | 6 | ≈ 2.29 pp. | 22.9% |
| 6. Conclusion | 8 | ≈ 0.21 pp. | 2.1% |
| Acknowledgements | 9 | ≈ 0.07 pp. | 0.7% |
| References | 9 | ≈ 1.88 pp. | 18.8% |
All detected figure and table locations
Main text
Attached appendix
No recognized caption labels.
Argument and organization
- 1 Introduction; 2 Related Work
Motivates detection-specific output geometry beyond classification-style covariate-shift proxies.
- 3 Prediction Consistency and Reliability; 4 Corruption-Based Meta-Dataset
Defines complementary low/high-confidence box statistics and trains a dataset-level performance regressor.
- 5 Experiments; 6 Conclusion
Crosses detectors and meta-datasets, then ablates severity, score components and target mAP definitions.
Problem, claim and contribution
Pre/post-NMS redundancy is repurposed as evaluation evidence; low-confidence consistent boxes and high-confidence reliable boxes are interpreted differently.
Sections 1 and 3.1–3.2, physical pp.1–4 · Main paper
Argument and section order
Per-box statistics become per-image and then dataset-average scores before linear regression predicts mAP, exposing the aggregation hierarchy.
Section 3.3, p.5 · Main paper
Figures, captions and visual explanation
The correlation panel pairs scatterplots with failure/success box examples and explicitly plots one minus the consistency score where a positive slope is shown.
Figure 4, p.5 · Main paper
Tables, comparisons and evidence
Tables cross four detector/backbone combinations with augmentation and corruption meta-datasets; the protocol leaves a source dataset out for testing without transformations.
Section 3.3, p.5; Tables 1–2, p.7 · Main paper
Appendix and reproducibility
Baseline tuning and further evaluation results are assigned to supplementary material, not inspected.
Section 5.1, p.6 · Main paper
Clarity and writing conventions
The severity analysis describes increasing RMSE rather than implying that a lower error than the baseline means immunity to distribution shift.
Figure 6 and Section 5.4, p.7 · Main paper
What to reuse—and what not to infer
Transferable lesson: Trace an evaluation proxy from individual predictions to the dataset-level target, and expose the calibration split and detector assumptions.
Boundary: No ground-truth labels are needed for a new target dataset, but fitting and validating the performance regressor uses source meta-dataset mAP. Corruption coverage is not every real domain shift, and the pre-NMS mechanism does not automatically apply to NMS-free detectors or certify deployment safety.
Apply this lesson using the argument and evidence worksheet.
Inspection record and sources
- Checked
- 2026-10-07
- Reading status
- Writing-focused manuscript scan + selected visuals inspected
- Main text
- Writing-oriented scan across the main manuscript, physical PDF pp.1–8, covering framing, section progression, method explanations, captions, comparison protocols and concluding scope; reference boundary checked. Selected full-page rasters were inspected. Not exhaustive line-by-line reading, proof verification or experimental reproduction.
- Appendix / supplement
- Main-paper appendix/supplement references were checked. A separate supplementary source is linked in the inventory but was not retrieved or inspected; its contents are not included in the reading or visual-page counts.
- Visually inspected PDF pages
- 5, 7
This is a writing-focused scan of the manuscript and the stated supplementary scope: framing, organization, visual explanation, evidence presentation and wording. It is not a line-by-line proof audit, reproduction of results or exhaustive scientific review.