Cross-Domain Object Detection via Adaptive Self-Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13216v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2021 18:50:15 GMT
• Title: Cross-Domain Object Detection via Adaptive Self-Training
• Authors: Yu-Jhe Li, Xiaoliang Dai, Chih-Yao Ma, Yen-Cheng Liu, Kan Chen, Bichen Wu, Zijian He, Kris Kitani, Peter Vadja
• Abstract summary: We propose a self-training framework called Adaptive Unbiased Teacher (AUT) AUT uses adversarial learning and weak-strong data augmentation to address domain shift. We show AUT demonstrates superiority over all existing approaches and even Oracle (fully supervised) models by a large margin.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We tackle the problem of domain adaptation in object detection, where there is a significant domain shift between a source (a domain with supervision) and a target domain (a domain of interest without supervision). As a widely adopted domain adaptation method, the self-training teacher-student framework (a student model learns from pseudo labels generated from a teacher model) has yielded remarkable accuracy gain on the target domain. However, it still suffers from the large amount of low-quality pseudo labels (e.g., false positives) generated from the teacher due to its bias toward the source domain. To address this issue, we propose a self-training framework called Adaptive Unbiased Teacher (AUT) leveraging adversarial learning and weak-strong data augmentation during mutual learning to address domain shift. Specifically, we employ feature-level adversarial training in the student model, ensuring features extracted from the source and target domains share similar statistics. This enables the student model to capture domain-invariant features. Furthermore, we apply weak-strong augmentation and mutual learning between the teacher model on the target domain and the student model on both domains. This enables the teacher model to gradually benefit from the student model without suffering domain shift. We show that AUT demonstrates superiority over all existing approaches and even Oracle (fully supervised) models by a large margin. For example, we achieve 50.9% (49.3%) mAP on Foggy Cityscape (Clipart1K), which is 9.2% (5.2%) and 8.2% (11.0%) higher than previous state-of-the-art and Oracle, respectively

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