Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets

Deep learning grew in importance in recent years due to its versatility and excellent performance on supervised classification tasks. A core assumption for such supervised approaches is that the training and testing data are drawn from the same underlying data distribution. This may not always be th...

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Main Authors: Navya Nagananda, Abu Md Niamul Taufique, Raaga Madappa, Chowdhury Sadman Jahan, Breton Minnehan, Todd Rovito, Andreas Savakis
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Published: MDPI AG 2021-12-01
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/23/8070
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author Navya Nagananda
Abu Md Niamul Taufique
Raaga Madappa
Chowdhury Sadman Jahan
Breton Minnehan
Todd Rovito
Andreas Savakis
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Abu Md Niamul Taufique
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Breton Minnehan
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Andreas Savakis
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description Deep learning grew in importance in recent years due to its versatility and excellent performance on supervised classification tasks. A core assumption for such supervised approaches is that the training and testing data are drawn from the same underlying data distribution. This may not always be the case, and in such cases, the performance of the model is degraded. Domain adaptation aims to overcome the domain shift between the source domain used for training and the target domain data used for testing. Unsupervised domain adaptation deals with situations where the network is trained on labeled data from the source domain and unlabeled data from the target domain with the goal of performing well on the target domain data at the time of deployment. In this study, we overview seven state-of-the-art unsupervised domain adaptation models based on deep learning and benchmark their performance on three new domain adaptation datasets created from publicly available aerial datasets. We believe this is the first study on benchmarking domain adaptation methods for aerial data. In addition to reporting classification performance for the different domain adaptation models, we present t-SNE visualizations that illustrate the benefits of the adaptation process.
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spelling doaj.art-b29666a701c84c0fa8eb796715e602132023-11-23T03:03:30ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202021-12-012123807010.3390/s21238070Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial DatasetsNavya Nagananda0Abu Md Niamul Taufique1Raaga Madappa2Chowdhury Sadman Jahan3Breton Minnehan4Todd Rovito5Andreas Savakis6Department of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USADepartment of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USADepartment of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USADepartment of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USAAir Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USAAir Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH 45433, USADepartment of Computer Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USADeep learning grew in importance in recent years due to its versatility and excellent performance on supervised classification tasks. A core assumption for such supervised approaches is that the training and testing data are drawn from the same underlying data distribution. This may not always be the case, and in such cases, the performance of the model is degraded. Domain adaptation aims to overcome the domain shift between the source domain used for training and the target domain data used for testing. Unsupervised domain adaptation deals with situations where the network is trained on labeled data from the source domain and unlabeled data from the target domain with the goal of performing well on the target domain data at the time of deployment. In this study, we overview seven state-of-the-art unsupervised domain adaptation models based on deep learning and benchmark their performance on three new domain adaptation datasets created from publicly available aerial datasets. We believe this is the first study on benchmarking domain adaptation methods for aerial data. In addition to reporting classification performance for the different domain adaptation models, we present t-SNE visualizations that illustrate the benefits of the adaptation process.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/23/8070domain adaptationaerial datasetsunsupervised learningvisualizationdeep neural networks
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Abu Md Niamul Taufique
Raaga Madappa
Chowdhury Sadman Jahan
Breton Minnehan
Todd Rovito
Andreas Savakis
Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets
Sensors
domain adaptation
aerial datasets
unsupervised learning
visualization
deep neural networks
title Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets
title_full Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets
title_fullStr Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets
title_full_unstemmed Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets
title_short Benchmarking Domain Adaptation Methods on Aerial Datasets
title_sort benchmarking domain adaptation methods on aerial datasets
topic domain adaptation
aerial datasets
unsupervised learning
visualization
deep neural networks
url https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/23/8070
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