Online domain adaptation of a pre-trained cascade of classifiers

  • Authors:
  • V. Jain;E. Learned-Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • Yahoo! Labs. Bangalore, Bangalore, India;Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CVPR '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Many classifiers are trained with massive training sets only to be applied at test time on data from a different distribution. How can we rapidly and simply adapt a classifier to a new test distribution, even when we do not have access to the original training data? We present an on-line approach for rapidly adapting a "black box" classifier to a new test data set without retraining the classifier or examining the original optimization criterion. Assuming the original classifier outputs a continuous number for which a threshold gives the class, we reclassify points near the original boundary using a Gaussian process regression scheme. We show how this general procedure can be used in the context of a classifier cascade, demonstrating performance that far exceeds state-of-the-art results in face detection on a standard data set. We also draw connections to work in semi-supervised learning, domain adaptation, and information regularization.