Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation via Kernel Regression on the Grassmannian

Yongxin Yang and Timothy Hospedales

Abstract

Most visual recognition methods implicitly assume the data distribution remains unchanged from training to testing. However, in practice domain shift often exists, where real-world factors such as lighting and sensor type change between train and test, and classifiers do not generalise from source to target domains. It is impractical to train separate models for all possible situations because collecting and labelling the data is expensive. Domain adaptation algorithms aim to ameliorate domain shift, allowing a model trained on a source to perform well on a different target domain. However, even for the setting of unsupervised domain adaptation, where the target domain is unlabelled, collecting data for every possible target domain is still costly. In this paper, we propose a new domain adaptation method that has no need to access either data or labels of the target domain when it can be described by a parametrised vector and there exits several related source domains within the same parametric space. It greatly reduces the burden of data collection and annotation, and our experiments show some promising results.

Session

Workshop: 1st International Workshop on DIFFerential Geometry in Computer Vision for Analysis of Shapes, Images and Trajectories (DIFF-CV)

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DOI

10.5244/C.29.DIFFCV.1
https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.29.DIFFCV.1

Citation

Yongxin Yang and Timothy Hospedales. Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation via Kernel Regression on the Grassmannian. In H. Drira, S. Kurtek, and P. Turaga, editors, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on DIFFerential Geometry in Computer Vision for Analysis of Shapes, Images and Trajectories (DIFF-CV 2015), pages 1.1-1.12. BMVA Press, September 2015.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{DIFFCV2015_1,
	title={Zero-Shot Domain Adaptation via Kernel Regression on the Grassmannian},
	author={Yongxin Yang and Timothy Hospedales},
	year={2015},
	month={September},
	pages={1.1-1.12},
	articleno={1},
	numpages={12},
	booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on DIFFerential Geometry in Computer Vision for Analysis of Shapes, Images and Trajectories (DIFF-CV 2015)},
	publisher={BMVA Press},
	editor={H. Drira, S. Kurtek, and P. Turaga},
	doi={10.5244/C.29.DIFFCV.1},
	isbn={1-901725-56-1},
	url={https://dx.doi.org/10.5244/C.29.DIFFCV.1}
}