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Mind the Gap: Subspace based Hierarchical Domain Adaptation
Domain adaptation techniques aim at adapting a classifier learnt on a source
domain to work on the target domain. Exploiting the subspaces spanned by
features of the source and target domains respectively is one approach that has
been investigated towards solving this problem. These techniques normally
assume the existence of a single subspace for the entire source / target
domain. In this work, we consider the hierarchical organization of the data and
consider multiple subspaces for the source and target domain based on the
hierarchy. We evaluate different subspace based domain adaptation techniques
under this setting and observe that using different subspaces based on the
hierarchy yields consistent improvement over a non-hierarchical baselineComment: 4 pages in Second Workshop on Transfer and Multi-Task Learning:
Theory meets Practice in NIPS 201
Subspace Alignment Based Domain Adaptation for RCNN Detector
In this paper, we propose subspace alignment based domain adaptation of the
state of the art RCNN based object detector. The aim is to be able to achieve
high quality object detection in novel, real world target scenarios without
requiring labels from the target domain. While, unsupervised domain adaptation
has been studied in the case of object classification, for object detection it
has been relatively unexplored. In subspace based domain adaptation for
objects, we need access to source and target subspaces for the bounding box
features. The absence of supervision (labels and bounding boxes are absent)
makes the task challenging. In this paper, we show that we can still adapt sub-
spaces that are localized to the object by obtaining detections from the RCNN
detector trained on source and applied on target. Then we form localized
subspaces from the detections and show that subspace alignment based adaptation
between these subspaces yields improved object detection. This evaluation is
done by considering challenging real world datasets of PASCAL VOC as source and
validation set of Microsoft COCO dataset as target for various categories.Comment: 26th British Machine Vision Conference, Swansea, U
Return of Frustratingly Easy Domain Adaptation
Unlike human learning, machine learning often fails to handle changes between
training (source) and test (target) input distributions. Such domain shifts,
common in practical scenarios, severely damage the performance of conventional
machine learning methods. Supervised domain adaptation methods have been
proposed for the case when the target data have labels, including some that
perform very well despite being "frustratingly easy" to implement. However, in
practice, the target domain is often unlabeled, requiring unsupervised
adaptation. We propose a simple, effective, and efficient method for
unsupervised domain adaptation called CORrelation ALignment (CORAL). CORAL
minimizes domain shift by aligning the second-order statistics of source and
target distributions, without requiring any target labels. Even though it is
extraordinarily simple--it can be implemented in four lines of Matlab
code--CORAL performs remarkably well in extensive evaluations on standard
benchmark datasets.Comment: Fixed typos. Full paper to appear in AAAI-16. Extended Abstract of
the full paper to appear in TASK-CV 2015 worksho
Location recognition over large time lags
Would it be possible to automatically associate ancient pictures to modern ones and create fancy cultural heritage city maps? We introduce here the task of recognizing the location depicted in an old photo given modern annotated images collected from the Internet. We present an extensive analysis on different features, looking for the most discriminative and most robust to the image variability induced by large time lags. Moreover, we show that the described task benefits from domain adaptation
Towards a continuous modeling of natural language domains
Humans continuously adapt their style and language to a variety of domains.
However, a reliable definition of `domain' has eluded researchers thus far.
Additionally, the notion of discrete domains stands in contrast to the
multiplicity of heterogeneous domains that humans navigate, many of which
overlap. In order to better understand the change and variation of human
language, we draw on research in domain adaptation and extend the notion of
discrete domains to the continuous spectrum. We propose representation
learning-based models that can adapt to continuous domains and detail how these
can be used to investigate variation in language. To this end, we propose to
use dialogue modeling as a test bed due to its proximity to language modeling
and its social component.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, published in Uphill Battles in Language
Processing workshop, EMNLP 201
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