Authors:
Tobias Scheck
;
Ana Perez Grassi
and
Gangolf Hirtz
Affiliation:
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Keyword(s):
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, Synthetic Images, CenterNet, Anchorless/Keypoint-based Detectors, Object Detection.
Abstract:
Synthetic images are one of the most promising solutions to avoid high costs associated with generating annotated datasets to train supervised convolutional neural networks (CNN). However, to allow networks to generalize knowledge from synthetic to real images, domain adaptation methods are necessary. This paper implements unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods on an anchorless object detector. Given their good performance, anchorless detectors are increasingly attracting attention in the field of object detection. While their results are comparable to the well-established anchor-based methods, anchorless detectors are considerably faster. In our work, we use CenterNet, one of the most recent anchorless architectures, for a domain adaptation problem involving synthetic images. Taking advantage of the architecture of anchorless detectors, we propose to adjust two UDA methods, viz., entropy minimization and maximum squares loss, originally developed for segmentation, to object de
tection. Our results show that the proposed UDA methods can increase the mAP from 61% to 69% with respect to direct transfer on the considered anchorless detector. The code is available: https://github.com/scheckmedia/centernet-uda.
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