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Sequential Instance Refinement for Cross-Domain Object Detection in Images

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Jin Chen
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吴心筱 (Xinxiao Wu) *
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Lixin Duan
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Lin Chen
DOI:10.1109/TIP.2021.3066904delete
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Cross-domain object detection in images has attracted increasing attention in the past few years, which aims at adapting the detection model learned from existing labeled images (source domain) to newly collected unlabeled ones (target domain). Existing methods usually deal with the cross-domain object detection problem through direct feature alignment between the source and target domains at the image level, the instance level (i.e., region proposals) or both. However, we have observed that directly aligning features of all object instances from the two domains often results in the problem of negative transfer, due to the existence of (1) outlier target instances that contain confusing objects not belonging to any category of the source domain and thus are hard to be captured by detectors and (2) low-relevance source instances that are considerably statistically different from target instances although their contained objects are from the same category. With this in mind, we propose a reinforcement learning based method, coined as sequential instance refinement, where two agents are learned to progressively refine both source and target instances by taking sequential actions to remove both outlier target instances and low-relevance source instances step by step. Extensive experiments on several benchmark datasets demonstrate the superior performance of our method over existing state-of-the-art baselines for cross-domain object detection.
Keywords:
Object detection
Feature extraction
Detectors
Reinforcement learning
Proposals
Task analysis
Benchmark testing
Cross-domain object detection
negative transfer
reinforcement learning
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IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
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beijing institute of technology
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