Balanced Discriminative Transfer Feature Learning for Visual Domain Adaptation

Transfer learning aims to transfer source models to a target domain.Leveraging the feature matching can alleviate the domain shift effectively,but this process ignores the relationship of the marginal distribution matching and the conditional distribution matching.Simultaneously,the discriminative information of both domains is also neglected,which is important for improving the performance on the target domain.In this paper,we propose a novel method called Balanced Discriminative Transfer Feature Learning for Visual Domain Adaptation(BDTFL).The proposed method can adaptively balance the relationship of both distribution matchings and capture the category discriminative information of both domains.Therefore,balanced feature matching can achieve more accurate feature matching and adaptively adjust itself to different scenes.At the same time,discriminative information is exploited to alleviate category confusion during feature matching.And with assistance of the category discriminative information captured from both domains,the source classifier can be transferred to the target domain more accurately and boost the performance of target classification.Extensive experiments show the superiority of BDTFL on popular visual cross-domain benchmarks.

Discriminatively Constrained Semi-Supervised Multi-View Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with Graph Regularization

Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(NMF)is one of the most popular feature learning technologies in the field of machine learning and pattern recognition.It has been widely used and studied in the multi-view clustering tasks because of its effectiveness.This study proposes a general semi-supervised multi-view nonnegative matrix factorization algorithm.This algorithm incorporates discriminative and geometric information on data to learn a better-fused representation,and adopts a feature normalizing strategy to align the different views.Two specific implementations of this algorithm are developed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework:Graph regularization based Discriminatively Constrained Multi-View Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(GDCMVNMF)and Extended Multi-View Constrained Nonnegative Matrix Factorization(ExMVCNMF).The intrinsic connection between these two specific implementations is discussed,and the optimization based on multiply update rules is presented.Experiments on six datasets show that the effectiveness of GDCMVNMF and ExMVCNMF outperforms several representative unsupervised and semi-supervised multi-view NMF approaches.