Unsupervised Improvement of Visual Detectors using Co-Training

  • Authors:
  • Anat Levin;Paul Viola;Yoav Freund

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCV '03 Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

One significant challenge in the construction of visualdetection systems is the acquisition of sufficient labeleddata. This paper describes a new technique for trainingvisual detectors which requires only a small quantity of labeleddata, and then uses unlabeled data to improve performanceover time. Unsupervised improvement is based onthe co-training framework of Blum and Mitchell, in whichtwo disparate classifiers are trained simultaneously. Unlabeledexamples which are confidently labeled by one classifierare added, with labels, to the training set of the otherclassifier. Experiments are presented on the realistic task ofautomobile detection in roadway surveillance video. In thisapplication, co-training reduces the false positive rate by afactor of 2 to 11 from the classifier trained with labeled dataalone.