Title
A Robust Learning Approach to Domain Adaptive Object Detection
Abstract
Domain shift is unavoidable in real-world applications of object detection. For example, in self-driving cars, the target domain consists of unconstrained road environments which cannot all possibly be observed in training data. Similarly, in surveillance applications sufficiently representative training data may be lacking due to privacy regulations. In this paper, we address the domain adaptation problem from the perspective of robust learning and show that the problem may be formulated as training with noisy labels. We propose a robust object detection framework that is resilient to noise in bounding box class labels, locations and size annotations. To adapt to the domain shift, the model is trained on the target domain using a set of noisy object bounding boxes that are obtained by a detection model trained only in the source domain. We evaluate the accuracy of our approach in various source/target domain pairs and demonstrate that the model significantly improves the state-of-the-art on multiple domain adaptation scenarios on the SIM10K, Cityscapes and KITTI datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICCV.2019.00057
2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Keywords
Field
DocType
domain shift,unconstrained road environments,surveillance applications,privacy regulations,robust object detection framework,noisy object bounding boxes,source domain,multiple domain adaptation scenarios,robust learning approach,domain adaptive object detection
Training set,Object detection,Domain adaptation,Robust learning,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning,Privacy law,Bounding overwatch,Minimum bounding box
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1904.02361
1
1550-5499
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-4804-5
14
0.51
References 
Authors
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mehran Khodabandeh1161.57
Vahdat, Arash235318.20
Mani Ranjbar315310.40
William G. Macready416139.07