Adversarially Trained Object Detector for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2109.05751v1
• Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 07:21:28 GMT
• Title: Adversarially Trained Object Detector for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
• Authors: Kazuma Fujii, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko Kawamoto
• Abstract summary: We demonstrate that adversarial training in the source domain can be employed as a new approach for unsupervised domain adaptation. We propose a method that combines adversarial training and feature alignment to ensure the improved alignment of robust features with the target domain.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Unsupervised domain adaptation, which involves transferring knowledge from a label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain, can be used to substantially reduce annotation costs in the field of object detection. In this study, we demonstrate that adversarial training in the source domain can be employed as a new approach for unsupervised domain adaptation. Specifically, we establish that adversarially trained detectors achieve improved detection performance in target domains that are significantly shifted from source domains. This phenomenon is attributed to the fact that adversarially trained detectors can be used to extract robust features that are in alignment with human perception and worth transferring across domains while discarding domain-specific non-robust features. In addition, we propose a method that combines adversarial training and feature alignment to ensure the improved alignment of robust features with the target domain. We conduct experiments on four benchmark datasets and confirm the effectiveness of our proposed approach on large domain shifts from real to artistic images. Compared to the baseline models, the adversarially trained detectors improve the mean average precision by up to 7.7\%, and further by up to 11.8\% when feature alignments are incorporated.

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