Title
Best Sources Forward: Domain Generalization Through Source-Specific Nets
Abstract
A long standing problem in visual object categorization is the ability of algorithms to generalize across different testing conditions. The problem has been formalized as a covariate shift among the probability distributions generating the training data (source) and the test data (target) and several domain adaptation methods have been proposed to address this issue. While these approaches have considered the single source-single target scenario, it is plausible to have multiple sources and require adaptation to any possible target domain. This last scenario, named Domain Generalization (DG), is the focus of our work. Differently from previous DG methods which learn domain invariant representations from source data, we design a deep network with multiple domain-specific classifiers, each associated to a source domain. At test time we estimate the probabilities that a target sample belongs to each source domain and exploit them to optimally fuse the classifiers predictions. To further improve the generalization ability of our model, we also introduced a domain agnostic component supporting the final classifier. Experiments on two public benchmarks demonstrate the power of our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/icip.2018.8451318
2018 25TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGE PROCESSING (ICIP)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Domain Generalization, Object Classification, Deep Learning
Conference
abs/1806.05810
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1522-4880
2
0.36
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimiliano Mancini1248.86
Samuel Rota Bulò256433.69
Barbara Caputo33298201.26
Elisa Ricci 00024139373.75