Journal of Shanghai University(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2023, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (1): 1-9.doi: 10.12066/j.issn.1007-2861.2460

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Robust metric transfer using joint adversarial training

YANG Qiancheng1,2, LUO Yong1,2(), HU Han3, ZHOU Xin4, DU Bo1,2, TAO Dacheng5,6   

  1. 1. School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, Hubei, China
    2. Hubei Luojia Laboratory, Wuhan 430079, Hubei, China
    3. School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
    4. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore
    5. JD Explore Academy, Beijing 100191, China
    6. School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia
  • Received:2023-01-08 Online:2023-02-28 Published:2023-03-28
  • Contact: LUO Yong E-mail:luoyong@whu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Transfer metric learning (TML) aims to improve the metric learning in target domains by transferring knowledge from those related tasks where the distance metrics are strong and reliable. Existing TML approaches focus on only transferring the source metric knowledge, which is often prone to overfitting to the source domain. In this study, we train a source metric that is appropriate for transfer and then design a general deep TML method for effective metric transfer. In particular, we propose learning the source metric parameterized by a deep neural network through joint adversarial training and then transferring the metric to the target domain by embedding imitation, which allows the inputs of source and target domains to be heterogeneous. Besides, we restrict the size of the target metric network to be small so that the inference is efficient in the target domain. Finally, the results of applying the proposed method to a popular face verification application demonstrate its effectiveness.

Key words: transfer metric learning (TML), deep metric learning, joint adversarial training, heterogeneous domain

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