Cited by 1,603Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningGenerative Adversarial Networks and Image SynthesisAdvanced Neural Network Applications

Unsupervised Pixel-Level Domain Adaptation with Generative Adversarial Networks

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Bousmalis, Konstantinos, Silberman, Nathan, Dohan, David, Erhan, Dumitru, Krishnan, Dilip·2017·2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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Collecting well-annotated image datasets to train modern machine learning algorithms is prohibitively expensive for many tasks. One appealing alternative is rendering synthetic data where ground-truth annotations are generated automatically. Unfortunately, models trained purely on rendered images fail to generalize to real images. To address this shortcoming, prior work introduced unsupervised domain adaptation algorithms that have tried to either map representations between the two domains, or learn to extract features that are domain-invariant. In this work, we approach the problem in a new light by learning in an unsupervised manner a transformation in the pixel space from one domain to the other. Our generative adversarial network (GAN)-based method adapts source-domain images to appear as if drawn from the target domain. Our approach not only produces plausible samples, but also outperforms the state-of-the-art on a number of unsupervised domain adaptation scenarios by large margins. Finally, we demonstrate that the adaptation process generalizes to object classes unseen during training.

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  • Adversarial-based methods build a domain classifier to distinguish whether features come from source or target domain, and after training the extractor can produce invariant features from both domains.

    “Adversarial-based methods build a domain classifier to distinguish whether the features come from source domain or target domain. After being trained, the extractor could produce invariant feature from both source domain and target domain [68], [69], [70].”

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Authors
Bousmalis, K., Silberman, N., Dohan, D., Erhan, D., & Krishnan, D.
Affiliations
  • Google (United Kingdom) (GB)
  • Google (United States) (US)
Venue
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2017-07
Pages
95-104
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2584009249
Cited by
1,603
References
51
Citations by year
2026: 20 · 2025: 87 · 2024: 133 · 2023: 149 · 2022: 186 · 2021: 287 · 2020: 278 · 2019: 281 · 2018: 151 · 2017: 31
FWCI
92.42
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
unsupervised domain adaptation, generative adversarial networks, synthetic data, domain-invariant representation learning, image-to-image translation

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