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Uncertainty-Aware Pedestrian Attribute Recognition via Evidential Deep Learning

Zhuofan Lou, Shihang Zhang, Fangle Zhu, Shengjie Ye, Pingyu Wang

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Published 2026-04-29 · First seen 2026-04-30

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We propose UAPAR, an Uncertainty-Aware Pedestrian Attribute Recognition framework. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first EDL-based uncertainty-aware framework for pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR). Unlike conventional deterministic methods, which fail to assess prediction reliability on low-quality samples, UAPAR effectively identifies unreliable predictions and thus enhances system robustness in complex real-world scenarios. To achieve this, UAPAR incorporates Evidential Deep Learning (EDL) into a CLIP-based architecture. Specifically, a Region-Aware Evidence Reasoning module employs cross-attention and spatial prior masks to capture fine-grained local features, which are further processed by an evidence head to estimate attribute-wise epistemic uncertainty. To further enhance training robustness, we develop an uncertainty-guided dual-stage curriculum learning strategy to alleviate the adverse effects of severe label noise during training. Extensive experiments on the PA100K, PETA, RAPv1, and RAPv2 datasets demonstrate that UAPAR achieves competitive or superior performance. Furthermore, qualitative results confirm that the proposed framework generates uncertainty estimates that are predictive of challenging or erroneous samples.

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@article{lou2026uncertainty,
  title = {Uncertainty-Aware Pedestrian Attribute Recognition via Evidential Deep Learning},
  author = {Zhuofan Lou and Shihang Zhang and Fangle Zhu and Shengjie Ye and Pingyu Wang},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {We propose UAPAR, an Uncertainty-Aware Pedestrian Attribute Recognition framework. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first EDL-based uncertainty-aware framework for pedestrian attribute recognition (PAR). Unlike conventional deterministic methods, which fail to assess prediction reliability on low-quality samples, UAPAR effectively identifies unreliable predictions and thus enhances system robustness in complex real-world scenarios. To achieve this, UAPAR incorporates Evidential Deep Lea},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26873},
  keywords = {cs.CV},
  eprint = {2604.26873},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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