scholarly journals AdaStereo: An Efficient Domain-Adaptive Stereo Matching Approach

Author(s):  
Xiao Song ◽  
Guorun Yang ◽  
Xinge Zhu ◽  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Yuexin Ma ◽  
...  

AbstractRecently, records on stereo matching benchmarks are constantly broken by end-to-end disparity networks. However, the domain adaptation ability of these deep models is quite limited. Addressing such problem, we present a novel domain-adaptive approach called AdaStereo that aims to align multi-level representations for deep stereo matching networks. Compared to previous methods, our AdaStereo realizes a more standard, complete and effective domain adaptation pipeline. Firstly, we propose a non-adversarial progressive color transfer algorithm for input image-level alignment. Secondly, we design an efficient parameter-free cost normalization layer for internal feature-level alignment. Lastly, a highly related auxiliary task, self-supervised occlusion-aware reconstruction is presented to narrow the gaps in output space. We perform intensive ablation studies and break-down comparisons to validate the effectiveness of each proposed module. With no extra inference overhead and only a slight increase in training complexity, our AdaStereo models achieve state-of-the-art cross-domain performance on multiple benchmarks, including KITTI, Middlebury, ETH3D and DrivingStereo, even outperforming some state-of-the-art disparity networks finetuned with target-domain ground-truths. Moreover, based on two additional evaluation metrics, the superiority of our domain-adaptive stereo matching pipeline is further uncovered from more perspectives. Finally, we demonstrate that our method is robust to various domain adaptation settings, and can be easily integrated into quick adaptation application scenarios and real-world deployments.

Author(s):  
Alejandro Moreo Fernández ◽  
Andrea Esuli ◽  
Fabrizio Sebastiani

Domain Adaptation (DA) techniques aim at enabling machine learning methods learn effective classifiers for a “target” domain when the only available training data belongs to a different “source” domain. In this extended abstract, we briefly describe our new DA method called Distributional Correspondence Indexing (DCI) for sentiment classification. DCI derives term representations in a vector space common to both domains where each dimension reflects its distributional correspondence to a pivot, i.e., to a highly predictive term that behaves similarly across domains. The experiments we have conducted show that DCI obtains better performance than current state-of-the-art techniques for cross-lingual and cross-domain sentiment classification.


2016 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 131-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Moreo Fernández ◽  
Andrea Esuli ◽  
Fabrizio Sebastiani

Domain Adaptation (DA) techniques aim at enabling machine learning methods learn effective classifiers for a "target'' domain when the only available training data belongs to a different "source'' domain. In this paper we present the Distributional Correspondence Indexing (DCI) method for domain adaptation in sentiment classification. DCI derives term representations in a vector space common to both domains where each dimension reflects its distributional correspondence to a pivot, i.e., to a highly predictive term that behaves similarly across domains. Term correspondence is quantified by means of a distributional correspondence function (DCF). We propose a number of efficient DCFs that are motivated by the distributional hypothesis, i.e., the hypothesis according to which terms with similar meaning tend to have similar distributions in text. Experiments show that DCI obtains better performance than current state-of-the-art techniques for cross-lingual and cross-domain sentiment classification. DCI also brings about a significantly reduced computational cost, and requires a smaller amount of human intervention. As a final contribution, we discuss a more challenging formulation of the domain adaptation problem, in which both the cross-domain and cross-lingual dimensions are tackled simultaneously.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 5868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Han ◽  
Deyun Zhou ◽  
Zhen Yang ◽  
Yu Xie ◽  
Kai Zhang

Distribution mismatch caused by various resolutions, backgrounds, etc. can be easily found in multi-sensor systems. Domain adaptation attempts to reduce such domain discrepancy by means of different measurements, e.g., maximum mean discrepancy (MMD). Despite their success, such methods often fail to guarantee the separability of learned representation. To tackle this issue, we put forward a novel approach to jointly learn both domain-shared and discriminative representations. Specifically, we model the feature discrimination explicitly for two domains. Alternating discriminant optimization is proposed to obtain discriminative features with an l2 constraint in labeled source domain and sparse filtering is introduced to capture the intrinsic structures exists in the unlabeled target domain. Finally, they are integrated in a unified framework along with MMD to align domains. Extensive experiments compared with state-of-the-art methods verify the effectiveness of our method on cross-domain tasks.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (04) ◽  
pp. 6615-6622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guanglei Yang ◽  
Haifeng Xia ◽  
Mingli Ding ◽  
Zhengming Ding

Unsupervised domain adaptation facilitates the unlabeled target domain relying on well-established source domain information. The conventional methods forcefully reducing the domain discrepancy in the latent space will result in the destruction of intrinsic data structure. To balance the mitigation of domain gap and the preservation of the inherent structure, we propose a Bi-Directional Generation domain adaptation model with consistent classifiers interpolating two intermediate domains to bridge source and target domains. Specifically, two cross-domain generators are employed to synthesize one domain conditioned on the other. The performance of our proposed method can be further enhanced by the consistent classifiers and the cross-domain alignment constraints. We also design two classifiers which are jointly optimized to maximize the consistency on target sample prediction. Extensive experiments verify that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art on standard cross domain visual benchmarks.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 603
Author(s):  
Chunlei Shi ◽  
Xianwei Xin ◽  
Jiacai Zhang

Machine learning methods are widely used in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Due to the lack of labelled ASD data, multisite data are often pooled together to expand the sample size. However, the heterogeneity that exists among different sites leads to the degeneration of machine learning models. Herein, the three-way decision theory was introduced into unsupervised domain adaptation in the first time, and applied to optimize the pseudolabel of the target domain/site from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) features related to ASD patients. The experimental results using multisite fMRI data show that our method not only narrows the gap of the sample distribution among domains but is also superior to the state-of-the-art domain adaptation methods in ASD recognition. Specifically, the ASD recognition accuracy of the proposed method is improved on all the six tasks, by 70.80%, 75.41%, 69.91%, 72.13%, 71.01% and 68.85%, respectively, compared with the existing methods.


Author(s):  
Ziliang Cai ◽  
Lingyue Wang ◽  
Miaomiao Guo ◽  
Guizhi Xu ◽  
Lei Guo ◽  
...  

Emotion plays a significant role in human daily activities, and it can be effectively recognized from EEG signals. However, individual variability limits the generalization of emotion classifiers across subjects. Domain adaptation (DA) is a reliable method to solve the issue. Due to the nonstationarity of EEG, the inferior-quality source domain data bring negative transfer in DA procedures. To solve this problem, an auto-augmentation joint distribution adaptation (AA-JDA) method and a burden-lightened and source-preferred JDA (BLSP-JDA) approach are proposed in this paper. The methods are based on a novel transfer idea, learning the specific knowledge of the target domain from the samples that are appropriate for transfer, which reduces the difficulty of transfer between two domains. On multiple emotion databases, our model shows state-of-the-art performance.


Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 1994
Author(s):  
Ping Li ◽  
Zhiwei Ni ◽  
Xuhui Zhu ◽  
Juan Song ◽  
Wenying Wu

Domain adaptation manages to learn a robust classifier for target domain, using the source domain, but they often follow different distributions. To bridge distribution shift between the two domains, most of previous works aim to align their feature distributions through feature transformation, of which optimal transport for domain adaptation has attract researchers’ interest, as it can exploit the local information of the two domains in the process of mapping the source instances to the target ones by minimizing Wasserstein distance between their feature distributions. However, it may weaken the feature discriminability of source domain, thus degrade domain adaptation performance. To address this problem, this paper proposes a two-stage feature-based adaptation approach, referred to as optimal transport with dimensionality reduction (OTDR). In the first stage, we apply the dimensionality reduction with intradomain variant maximization but source intraclass compactness minimization, to separate data samples as much as possible and enhance the feature discriminability of the source domain. In the second stage, we leverage optimal transport-based technique to preserve the local information of the two domains. Notably, the desirable properties in the first stage can mitigate the degradation of feature discriminability of the source domain in the second stage. Extensive experiments on several cross-domain image datasets validate that OTDR is superior to its competitors in classification accuracy.


Author(s):  
Cheng Chen ◽  
Qi Dou ◽  
Hao Chen ◽  
Jing Qin ◽  
Pheng-Ann Heng

This paper presents a novel unsupervised domain adaptation framework, called Synergistic Image and Feature Adaptation (SIFA), to effectively tackle the problem of domain shift. Domain adaptation has become an important and hot topic in recent studies on deep learning, aiming to recover performance degradation when applying the neural networks to new testing domains. Our proposed SIFA is an elegant learning diagram which presents synergistic fusion of adaptations from both image and feature perspectives. In particular, we simultaneously transform the appearance of images across domains and enhance domain-invariance of the extracted features towards the segmentation task. The feature encoder layers are shared by both perspectives to grasp their mutual benefits during the end-to-end learning procedure. Without using any annotation from the target domain, the learning of our unified model is guided by adversarial losses, with multiple discriminators employed from various aspects. We have extensively validated our method with a challenging application of crossmodality medical image segmentation of cardiac structures. Experimental results demonstrate that our SIFA model recovers the degraded performance from 17.2% to 73.0%, and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a significant margin.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 1716
Author(s):  
Reham Adayel ◽  
Yakoub Bazi ◽  
Haikel Alhichri ◽  
Naif Alajlan

Most of the existing domain adaptation (DA) methods proposed in the context of remote sensing imagery assume the presence of the same land-cover classes in the source and target domains. Yet, this assumption is not always realistic in practice as the target domain may contain additional classes unknown to the source leading to the so-called open set DA. Under this challenging setting, the problem turns to reducing the distribution discrepancy between the shared classes in both domains besides the detection of the unknown class samples in the target domain. To deal with the openset problem, we propose an approach based on adversarial learning and pareto-based ranking. In particular, the method leverages the distribution discrepancy between the source and target domains using min-max entropy optimization. During the alignment process, it identifies candidate samples of the unknown class from the target domain through a pareto-based ranking scheme that uses ambiguity criteria based on entropy and the distance to source class prototype. Promising results using two cross-domain datasets that consist of very high resolution and extremely high resolution images, show the effectiveness of the proposed method.


2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 8149-8159
Author(s):  
Ping Li ◽  
Zhiwei Ni ◽  
Xuhui Zhu ◽  
Juan Song

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to train a robust predictor by transferring rich knowledge from a well-labeled source domain to annotate a newly coming target domain; however, the two domains are usually drawn from very different distributions. Most current methods either learn the common features by matching inter-domain feature distributions and training the classifier separately or align inter-domain label distributions to directly obtain an adaptive classifier based on the original features despite feature distortion. Moreover, intra-domain information may be greatly degraded during the DA process; i.e., the source data samples from different classes might grow closer. To this end, this paper proposes a novel DA approach, referred to as inter-class distribution alienation and inter-domain distribution alignment based on manifold embedding (IDAME). Specifically, IDAME commits to adapting the classifier on the Grassmann manifold by using structural risk minimization, where inter-domain feature distributions are aligned to mitigate feature distortion, and the target pseudo labels are exploited using the distances on the Grassmann manifold. During the classifier adaptation process, we simultaneously consider the inter-class distribution alienation, the inter-domain distribution alignment, and the manifold consistency. Extensive experiments validate that IDAME can outperform several comparative state-of-the-art methods on real-world cross-domain image datasets.


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