Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Object Detection with Prototype-based Mean-teacher

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Main Authors: Belal, Atif, Meethal, Akhil, Romero, Francisco Perdigon, Pedersoli, Marco, Granger, Eric
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author Belal, Atif
Meethal, Akhil
Romero, Francisco Perdigon
Pedersoli, Marco
Granger, Eric
author_facet Belal, Atif
Meethal, Akhil
Romero, Francisco Perdigon
Pedersoli, Marco
Granger, Eric
contents Adapting visual object detectors to operational target domains is a challenging task, commonly achieved using unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods. Recent studies have shown that when the labeled dataset comes from multiple source domains, treating them as separate domains and performing a multi-source domain adaptation (MSDA) improves the accuracy and robustness over blending these source domains and performing a UDA. For adaptation, existing MSDA methods learn domain-invariant and domain-specific parameters (for each source domain). However, unlike single-source UDA methods, learning domain-specific parameters makes them grow significantly in proportion to the number of source domains. This paper proposes a novel MSDA method called Prototype-based Mean Teacher (PMT), which uses class prototypes instead of domain-specific subnets to encode domain-specific information. These prototypes are learned using a contrastive loss, aligning the same categories across domains and separating different categories far apart. Given the use of prototypes, the number of parameters required for our PMT method does not increase significantly with the number of source domains, thus reducing memory issues and possible overfitting. Empirical studies indicate that PMT outperforms state-of-the-art MSDA methods on several challenging object detection datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/imatif17/Prototype-Mean-Teacher.
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spellingShingle Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Object Detection with Prototype-based Mean-teacher
Belal, Atif
Meethal, Akhil
Romero, Francisco Perdigon
Pedersoli, Marco
Granger, Eric
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Adapting visual object detectors to operational target domains is a challenging task, commonly achieved using unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods. Recent studies have shown that when the labeled dataset comes from multiple source domains, treating them as separate domains and performing a multi-source domain adaptation (MSDA) improves the accuracy and robustness over blending these source domains and performing a UDA. For adaptation, existing MSDA methods learn domain-invariant and domain-specific parameters (for each source domain). However, unlike single-source UDA methods, learning domain-specific parameters makes them grow significantly in proportion to the number of source domains. This paper proposes a novel MSDA method called Prototype-based Mean Teacher (PMT), which uses class prototypes instead of domain-specific subnets to encode domain-specific information. These prototypes are learned using a contrastive loss, aligning the same categories across domains and separating different categories far apart. Given the use of prototypes, the number of parameters required for our PMT method does not increase significantly with the number of source domains, thus reducing memory issues and possible overfitting. Empirical studies indicate that PMT outperforms state-of-the-art MSDA methods on several challenging object detection datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/imatif17/Prototype-Mean-Teacher.
title Multi-Source Domain Adaptation for Object Detection with Prototype-based Mean-teacher
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.14950