在深度學習領域模型不確定性逐漸受到重視，如果無法得知深度學習模型對判斷的確定性，將很難被真實應用採納。許多文獻提出貝葉斯神經網路搭配蒙特卡洛dropout(MC dropout)來估計不確定性，但是MC dropout需要運算模型N次(例如：N=50)，這樣會造成N倍的減速。對於實時應用像自駕車系統需要取得預測以及不確定性愈快愈好的情況，MC dropout不是一個實際的解決方案。本論文提出區域時間集合方法，簡稱RTA-MC。RTA-MC 利用影像中時間上的資訊去模擬取樣的流程。RTA-MC 可以加速MC dropout 10.97倍快，而且只下降1.2% mean IOU 的準確率。除此之外，RTA-MC的不確定性估計在
幀層次上超越MC dropout，RTA-MC 可以找出比MC dropout多3%困難的幀。最後，將不確定性估計應用在主動學習上，結果顯示RTA-MC可以得到和MC dropout相同的表現並且超越隨機選擇。

Uncertainty estimation in deep learning becomes more important recently. A deep learning model can't be applied in real applications if we don't know whether the model is certain about the decision or not. Some literature proposes the Bayesian neural network which can estimate the uncertainty by Monte Carlo Dropout (MC dropout). However, MC dropout needs to forward the model N times (e.g. N=50) which results in N times slower. For real-time applications such as self-driving car system, which need to obtain the prediction and the uncertainty as fast as possible, so that MC dropout becomes impractical. In this work, we propose the region-based temporal aggregation (RTA) method which leverages the temporal information in videos to simulate the sampling procedure. Our RTA method speeds up the MC dropout 10.97x faster and only drop 1.2% on mean IoU metric. Furthermore, the uncertainty estimation obtained by our RTA method outperforms MC dropout on frame-level uncertainty by more retrieving 3% of hardest frames. Finally, we use the uncertainty estimation to active learning. The results show that RTA-MC's uncertainty has the same performance as MC dropout and outperform random select strategy.

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