Rethinking Cross-Domain Pedestrian Detection: A Background-Focused Distribution Alignment Framework for Instance-Free One-Stage Detectors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08771v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:29:27 GMT
• Title: Rethinking Cross-Domain Pedestrian Detection: A Background-Focused Distribution Alignment Framework for Instance-Free One-Stage Detectors
• Authors: Yancheng Cai, Bo Zhang, Baopu Li, Tao Chen, Hongliang Yan, Jingdong Zhang, Jiahao Xu
• Abstract summary: Cross-domain pedestrian detection aims to generalize pedestrian detectors from one label-rich domain to another label-scarce domain. This paper proposes a novel framework, namely, background-focused distribution alignment (BFDA), to train domain adaptive onestage pedestrian detectors.
• Score: 25.967313282860626
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Cross-domain pedestrian detection aims to generalize pedestrian detectors from one label-rich domain to another label-scarce domain, which is crucial for various real-world applications. Most recent works focus on domain alignment to train domain-adaptive detectors either at the instance level or image level. From a practical point of view, one-stage detectors are faster. Therefore, we concentrate on designing a cross-domain algorithm for rapid one-stage detectors that lacks instance-level proposals and can only perform image-level feature alignment. However, pure image-level feature alignment causes the foreground-background misalignment issue to arise, i.e., the foreground features in the source domain image are falsely aligned with background features in the target domain image. To address this issue, we systematically analyze the importance of foreground and background in image-level cross-domain alignment, and learn that background plays a more critical role in image-level cross-domain alignment. Therefore, we focus on cross-domain background feature alignment while minimizing the influence of foreground features on the cross-domain alignment stage. This paper proposes a novel framework, namely, background-focused distribution alignment (BFDA), to train domain adaptive onestage pedestrian detectors. Specifically, BFDA first decouples the background features from the whole image feature maps and then aligns them via a novel long-short-range discriminator.

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