Learning an invariant Hilbert space for domain adaptation

Samitha Herath, Mehrtash Harandi, Fatih Porikli

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference PaperResearchpeer-review

90 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper introduces a learning scheme to construct a Hilbert space (i.e., a vector space along its inner product) to address both unsupervised and semi-supervised domain adaptation problems. This is achieved by learning projections from each domain to a latent space along the Mahalanobis metric of the latent space to simultaneously minimizing a notion of domain variance while maximizing a measure of discriminatory power. In particular, we make use of the Riemannian optimization techniques to match statistical properties (e.g., first and second order statistics) between samples projected into the latent space from different domains. Upon availability of class labels, we further deem samples sharing the same label to form more compact clusters while pulling away samples coming from different classes. We extensively evaluate and contrast our proposal against state-of-the-art methods for the task of visual domain adaptation using both handcrafted and deep-net features. Our experiments show that even with a simple nearest neighbor classifier, the proposed method can outperform several state-of-the-art methods benefiting from more involved classification schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017)
EditorsJim Rehg, Yanxi Liu, Ying Wu, Camillo Taylor
Place of PublicationPiscataway NJ USA
PublisherIEEE, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages3956-3965
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781538604571
ISBN (Print)9781538604588
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017 - Honolulu, United States of America
Duration: 21 Jul 201726 Jul 2017
http://cvpr2017.thecvf.com/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/8097368/proceeding (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017
Abbreviated titleCVPR 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States of America
CityHonolulu
Period21/07/1726/07/17
Internet address

Cite this