Learning Attributes Equals Multi-Source Domain Generalization

Abstract

Attributes possess appealing properties and benefit many computer vision problems, such as object recognition, learning with humans in the loop, and image retrieval. Whereas the existing work mainly pursues utilizing attributes for various computer vision problems, we contend that the most basic problem - how to accurately and robustly detect attributes from images - has been left under explored. Especially, the existing work rarely explicitly tackles the need that attribute detectors should generalize well across different categories, including those previously unseen. Noting that this is analogous to the objective of multi-source domain generalization, if we treat each category as a domain, we provide a novel perspective to attribute detection and propose to gear the techniques in multi-source domain generalization for the purpose of learning cross-category generalizable attribute detectors. We validate our understanding and approach with extensive experiments on four challenging datasets and three different problems.

Publication Date

12-9-2016

Publication Title

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Volume

2016-December

Number of Pages

87-97

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2016.17

Socpus ID

84986281512 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84986281512

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