Object detection in traffic scenes has attracted considerable attention from both academia and industry recently. Modern detectors achieve excellent performance under a simple constrained environment while performing poorly under the actual complex and open traffic environment. Therefore, the capability of adapting to new and unseen domains is a key factor for the large-scale application and proliferation of detectors in autonomous driving. To this end, this paper proposes a novel category-induced coarse-to-fine domain adaptation approach (C2FDA) for cross-domain object detection, which consists of three pivotal components: (1) Attention-induced coarse-grained alignment module (ACGA), which strengthens the distribution alignment across disparate domains within the foreground features in category-agnostic way by the minimax optimization between the domain classifier and the backbone feature extractor; (2) Attention-induced feature selection module, which assists the model to emphasize the crucial foreground features and enables the ACGA to focus on the relevant and discriminative foreground features, without being affected by the distribution of inconsequential background features; (3) Category-induced fine-grained alignment module (CFGA), which reduces the domain shift in category-aware way by minimizing the distance of centroids with the same category from different domains and maximizing that of centroids with disparate categories. We evaluate the performance of our approach in various source/target domain pairs and comprehensive results demonstrate that C2FDA significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art on multiple domain adaptation scenarios, i.e., the synthetic-to-real adaptation, the weather adaptation, and the cross camera adaptation.


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    Title :

    C2FDA: Coarse-to-Fine Domain Adaptation for Traffic Object Detection


    Contributors:
    Zhang, Hui (author) / Luo, Guiyang (author) / Li, Jinglin (author) / Wang, Fei-Yue (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-08-01


    Size :

    7392545 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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