10 Dec 2014 | Eric Tzeng, Judy Hoffman, Ning Zhang, Kate Saenko, Trevor Darrell
The paper "Deep Domain Confusion: Maximizing for Domain Invariance" by Eric Tzeng, Judy Hoffman, Ning Zhang, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell addresses the issue of dataset bias in deep learning models, particularly in the context of visual domain adaptation. The authors propose a new CNN architecture that introduces an adaptation layer and a domain confusion loss to learn representations that are both semantically meaningful and domain invariant. This approach aims to minimize the impact of domain shifts and improve the generalization of deep models across different domains.
The key contributions of the paper include:
1. **Architecture Design**: A new CNN architecture with an adaptation layer and a domain confusion loss term, optimized to minimize classification error and maximize domain invariance.
2. **Model Selection**: The use of a domain confusion metric to select the dimensionality and placement of the adaptation layer within the CNN architecture.
3. **Evaluation**: Comprehensive evaluation on the Office dataset, demonstrating superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in both supervised and unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios.
The authors show that their method effectively learns a representation that is invariant to domain shifts, achieving high accuracy on the target domain even with minor changes in pose, resolution, and lighting. The paper also discusses related work and provides a detailed experimental setup and results, highlighting the effectiveness of their proposed approach in visual domain adaptation tasks.The paper "Deep Domain Confusion: Maximizing for Domain Invariance" by Eric Tzeng, Judy Hoffman, Ning Zhang, Kate Saenko, and Trevor Darrell addresses the issue of dataset bias in deep learning models, particularly in the context of visual domain adaptation. The authors propose a new CNN architecture that introduces an adaptation layer and a domain confusion loss to learn representations that are both semantically meaningful and domain invariant. This approach aims to minimize the impact of domain shifts and improve the generalization of deep models across different domains.
The key contributions of the paper include:
1. **Architecture Design**: A new CNN architecture with an adaptation layer and a domain confusion loss term, optimized to minimize classification error and maximize domain invariance.
2. **Model Selection**: The use of a domain confusion metric to select the dimensionality and placement of the adaptation layer within the CNN architecture.
3. **Evaluation**: Comprehensive evaluation on the Office dataset, demonstrating superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in both supervised and unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios.
The authors show that their method effectively learns a representation that is invariant to domain shifts, achieving high accuracy on the target domain even with minor changes in pose, resolution, and lighting. The paper also discusses related work and provides a detailed experimental setup and results, highlighting the effectiveness of their proposed approach in visual domain adaptation tasks.