scholarly journals Unsupervised Adversarial Domain Adaptation with Error-Correcting Boundaries and Feature Adaption Metric for Remote-Sensing Scene Classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1270
Author(s):  
Chenhui Ma ◽  
Dexuan Sha ◽  
Xiaodong Mu

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) based on adversarial learning for remote-sensing scene classification has become a research hotspot because of the need to alleviating the lack of annotated training data. Existing methods train classifiers according to their ability to distinguish features from source or target domains. However, they suffer from the following two limitations: (1) the classifier is trained on source samples and forms a source-domain-specific boundary, which ignores features from the target domain and (2) semantically meaningful features are merely built from the adversary of a generator and a discriminator, which ignore selecting the domain invariant features. These issues limit the distribution matching performance of source and target domains, since each domain has its distinctive characteristic. To resolve these issues, we propose a framework with error-correcting boundaries and feature adaptation metric. Specifically, we design an error-correcting boundaries mechanism to build target-domain-specific classifier boundaries via multi-classifiers and error-correcting discrepancy loss, which significantly distinguish target samples and reduce their distinguished uncertainty. Then, we employ a feature adaptation metric structure to enhance the adaptation of ambiguous features via shallow layers of the backbone convolutional neural network and alignment loss, which automatically learns domain invariant features. The experimental results on four public datasets outperform other UDA methods of remote-sensing scene classification.

Author(s):  
Hoang Cuong ◽  
Khalil Sima’an ◽  
Ivan Titov

Existing work on domain adaptation for statistical machine translation has consistently assumed access to a small sample from the test distribution (target domain) at training time. In practice, however, the target domain may not be known at training time or it may change to match user needs. In such situations, it is natural to push the system to make safer choices, giving higher preference to domain-invariant translations, which work well across domains, over risky domain-specific alternatives. We encode this intuition by (1) inducing latent subdomains from the training data only; (2) introducing features which measure how specialized phrases are to individual induced sub-domains; (3) estimating feature weights on out-of-domain data (rather than on the target domain). We conduct experiments on three language pairs and a number of different domains. We observe consistent improvements over a baseline which does not explicitly reward domain invariance.


Author(s):  
J. Hu ◽  
L. Mou ◽  
X. X. Zhu

Abstract. A machine learning algorithm in remote sensing often fails in the inference of a data set which has a different geographic location than the training data. This is because data of different locations have different underlying distributions caused by complicated reasons, such as the climate and the culture. For a large scale or a global scale task, this issue becomes relevant since it is extremely expensive to collect training data over all regions of interest. Unsupervised domain adaptation is a potential solution for this issue. Its goal is to train an algorithm in a source domain and generalize it to a target domain without using any label from the target domain. Those domains can be associated to geographic locations in remote sensing. In this paper, we attempt to adapt the unsupervised domain adaptation strategy by using a teacher-student network, mean teacher model, to investigate a cross-city classification problem in remote sensing. The mean teacher model consists of two identical networks, a teacher network and a student network. The objective function is a combination of a classification loss and a consistent loss. The classification loss works within the source domain (a city) and aims at accomplishing the goal of classification. The consistent loss works within the target domain (another city) and aims at transferring the knowledge learned from the source to the target. In this paper, two cross-city scenarios are set up. First, we train the model with the data of the city Munich, Germany, and test it on the data of the city Moscow, Russia. The second one is carried out by switching the training and testing data. For comparison, the baseline algorithm is a ResNet-18 which is also chosen as the backbone for the teacher and student networks in the mean teacher model. With 10 independent runs, in the first scenario, the mean teacher model has a mean overall accuracy of 53.38% which is slightly higher than the mean overall accuracy of the baseline, 52.21%. However, in the second scenario, the mean teacher model has a mean overall accuracy of 62.71% which is 5% higher than the mean overall accuracy of the baseline, 57.76%. This work demonstrates that it is worthy to explore the potential of the mean teacher model to solve the domain adaptation issues in remote sensing.


Author(s):  
A. Paul ◽  
F. Rottensteiner ◽  
C. Heipke

In this paper we address the problem of classification of remote sensing images in the framework of transfer learning with a focus on domain adaptation. The main novel contribution is a method for transductive transfer learning in remote sensing on the basis of logistic regression. Logistic regression is a discriminative probabilistic classifier of low computational complexity, which can deal with multiclass problems. This research area deals with methods that solve problems in which labelled training data sets are assumed to be available only for a source domain, while classification is needed in the target domain with different, yet related characteristics. Classification takes place with a model of weight coefficients for hyperplanes which separate features in the transformed feature space. In term of logistic regression, our domain adaptation method adjusts the model parameters by iterative labelling of the target test data set. These labelled data features are iteratively added to the current training set which, at the beginning, only contains source features and, simultaneously, a number of source features are deleted from the current training set. Experimental results based on a test series with synthetic and real data constitutes a first proof-of-concept of the proposed method.


Author(s):  
Jianqun Zhang ◽  
Qing Zhang ◽  
Xianrong Qin ◽  
Yuantao Sun

To identify rolling bearing faults under variable load conditions, a method named DISA-KNN is proposed in this paper, which is based on the strategy of feature extraction-domain adaptation-classification. To be specific, the time-domain and frequency-domain indicators are used for feature extraction. Discriminative and domain invariant subspace alignment (DISA) is used to minimize the data distributions’ discrepancies between the training data (source domain) and testing data (target domain). K-nearest neighbor (KNN) is applied to identify rolling bearing faults. DISA-KNN’s validation is proved by the experimental signal collected under different load conditions. The identification accuracies obtained by the DISA-KNN method are more than 90% on four datasets, including one dataset with 99.5% accuracy. The strength of the proposed method is further highlighted by comparisons with the other 8 methods. These results reveal that the proposed method is promising for the rolling bearing fault diagnosis in real rotating machinery.


Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Kai Liu ◽  
Xiang Li ◽  
Jinsong Su ◽  
Yubin Ge ◽  
...  

The lack of sufficient training data in many domains, poses a major challenge to the construction of domain-specific machine reading comprehension (MRC) models with satisfying performance. In this paper, we propose a novel iterative multi-source mutual knowledge transfer framework for MRC. As an extension of the conventional knowledge transfer with one-to-one correspondence, our framework focuses on the many-to-many mutual transfer, which involves synchronous executions of multiple many-to-one transfers in an iterative manner.Specifically, to update a target-domain MRC model, we first consider other domain-specific MRC models as individual teachers, and employ knowledge distillation to train a multi-domain MRC model, which is differentially required to fit the training data and match the outputs of these individual models according to their domain-level similarities to the target domain. After being initialized by the multi-domain MRC model, the target-domain MRC model is fine-tuned to match both its training data and the output of its previous best model simultaneously via knowledge distillation. Compared with previous approaches, our framework can continuously enhance all domain-specific MRC models by enabling each model to iteratively and differentially absorb the domain-shared knowledge from others. Experimental results and in-depth analyses on several benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework.


Author(s):  
D. Gritzner ◽  
J. Ostermann

Abstract. Modern machine learning, especially deep learning, which is used in a variety of applications, requires a lot of labelled data for model training. Having an insufficient amount of training examples leads to models which do not generalize well to new input instances. This is a particular significant problem for tasks involving aerial images: often training data is only available for a limited geographical area and a narrow time window, thus leading to models which perform poorly in different regions, at different times of day, or during different seasons. Domain adaptation can mitigate this issue by using labelled source domain training examples and unlabeled target domain images to train a model which performs well on both domains. Modern adversarial domain adaptation approaches use unpaired data. We propose using pairs of semantically similar images, i.e., whose segmentations are accurate predictions of each other, for improved model performance. In this paper we show that, as an upper limit based on ground truth, using semantically paired aerial images during training almost always increases model performance with an average improvement of 4.2% accuracy and .036 mean intersection-over-union (mIoU). Using a practical estimate of semantic similarity, we still achieve improvements in more than half of all cases, with average improvements of 2.5% accuracy and .017 mIoU in those cases.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 1324-1328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaoyue Song ◽  
Hongkai Yu ◽  
Zhenjiang Miao ◽  
Qiang Zhang ◽  
Yuewei Lin ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (07) ◽  
pp. 12975-12983
Author(s):  
Sicheng Zhao ◽  
Guangzhi Wang ◽  
Shanghang Zhang ◽  
Yang Gu ◽  
Yaxian Li ◽  
...  

Deep neural networks suffer from performance decay when there is domain shift between the labeled source domain and unlabeled target domain, which motivates the research on domain adaptation (DA). Conventional DA methods usually assume that the labeled data is sampled from a single source distribution. However, in practice, labeled data may be collected from multiple sources, while naive application of the single-source DA algorithms may lead to suboptimal solutions. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-source distilling domain adaptation (MDDA) network, which not only considers the different distances among multiple sources and the target, but also investigates the different similarities of the source samples to the target ones. Specifically, the proposed MDDA includes four stages: (1) pre-train the source classifiers separately using the training data from each source; (2) adversarially map the target into the feature space of each source respectively by minimizing the empirical Wasserstein distance between source and target; (3) select the source training samples that are closer to the target to fine-tune the source classifiers; and (4) classify each encoded target feature by corresponding source classifier, and aggregate different predictions using respective domain weight, which corresponds to the discrepancy between each source and target. Extensive experiments are conducted on public DA benchmarks, and the results demonstrate that the proposed MDDA significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches. Our source code is released at: https://github.com/daoyuan98/MDDA.


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