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Humans disagree with the IoU for measuring object detector localization error

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Ombretta Strafforello, Vanathi Rajasekart, Osman S. Kayhan, Oana Inel, Jan van Gemert

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The localization quality of automatic object detectors is typically evaluated by the Intersection over Union (IoU) score. In this work, we show that humans have a different view on localization quality. To evaluate this, we conduct a survey with more than 70 participants. Results show that for localization errors with the exact same IoU score, humans might not consider that these errors are equal, and express a preference. Our work is the first to evaluate IoU with humans and makes it clear that relying on IoU scores alone to evaluate localization errors might not be sufficient.

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