8 Mar 2018 | Yuhua Chen, Wen Li, Christos Sakaridis, Dengxin Dai, Luc Van Gool
The paper "Domain Adaptive Faster R-CNN for Object Detection in the Wild" addresses the challenge of cross-domain object detection, where the training and test data are drawn from different distributions. The authors aim to improve the robustness of object detection models to domain shifts, which can occur at both the image level (e.g., style, illumination) and instance level (e.g., object appearance, size). They build their approach on the state-of-the-art Faster R-CNN model and introduce two domain adaptation components: image-level adaptation and instance-level adaptation, both based on $\mathcal{H}$-divergence theory and implemented using adversarial training. Additionally, they incorporate a consistency regularization to learn a domain-invariant region proposal network (RPN) within the Faster R-CNN model. The effectiveness of their approach is evaluated using multiple datasets, including Cityscapes, KITTI, and SIM10K, demonstrating significant improvements in object detection performance under various domain shift scenarios.The paper "Domain Adaptive Faster R-CNN for Object Detection in the Wild" addresses the challenge of cross-domain object detection, where the training and test data are drawn from different distributions. The authors aim to improve the robustness of object detection models to domain shifts, which can occur at both the image level (e.g., style, illumination) and instance level (e.g., object appearance, size). They build their approach on the state-of-the-art Faster R-CNN model and introduce two domain adaptation components: image-level adaptation and instance-level adaptation, both based on $\mathcal{H}$-divergence theory and implemented using adversarial training. Additionally, they incorporate a consistency regularization to learn a domain-invariant region proposal network (RPN) within the Faster R-CNN model. The effectiveness of their approach is evaluated using multiple datasets, including Cityscapes, KITTI, and SIM10K, demonstrating significant improvements in object detection performance under various domain shift scenarios.