Best sources forward: domain generalization through source-specific nets

15 Jun 2018  ·  Massimiliano Mancini, Samuel Rota Bulò, Barbara Caputo, Elisa Ricci ·

A long standing problem in visual object categorization is the ability of algorithms to generalize across different testing conditions. The problem has been formalized as a covariate shift among the probability distributions generating the training data (source) and the test data (target) and several domain adaptation methods have been proposed to address this issue. While these approaches have considered the single source-single target scenario, it is plausible to have multiple sources and require adaptation to any possible target domain. This last scenario, named Domain Generalization (DG), is the focus of our work. Differently from previous DG methods which learn domain invariant representations from source data, we design a deep network with multiple domain-specific classifiers, each associated to a source domain. At test time we estimate the probabilities that a target sample belongs to each source domain and exploit them to optimally fuse the classifiers predictions. To further improve the generalization ability of our model, we also introduced a domain agnostic component supporting the final classifier. Experiments on two public benchmarks demonstrate the power of our approach.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Domain Generalization PACS BestSources (Alexnet) Average Accuracy 70.30 # 111

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