Unsupervised domain adaptation via double classifiers based on high confidence pseudo label (2105.04729v1)

Abstract: Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to solve the problem of knowledge transfer from labeled source domain to unlabeled target domain. Recently, many domain adaptation (DA) methods use centroid to align the local distribution of different domains, that is, to align different classes. This improves the effect of domain adaptation, but domain differences exist not only between classes, but also between samples. This work rethinks what is the alignment between different domains, and studies how to achieve the real alignment between different domains. Previous DA methods only considered one distribution feature of aligned samples, such as full distribution or local distribution. In addition to aligning the global distribution, the real domain adaptation should also align the meso distribution and the micro distribution. Therefore, this study propose a double classifier method based on high confidence label (DCP). By aligning the centroid and the distribution between centroid and sample of different classifiers, the meso and micro distribution alignment of different domains is realized. In addition, in order to reduce the chain error caused by error marking, This study propose a high confidence marking method to reduce the marking error. To verify its versatility, this study evaluates DCP on digital recognition and target recognition data sets. The results show that our method achieves state-of-the-art results on most of the current domain adaptation benchmark datasets.