Most visual recognition methods implicitly assume the data distribution remains unchanged from training to testing. However, in practice \emph{domain shift} often exists, where real-world factors such as lighting and sensor type change between train and test, and classifiers do not generalise from source to target domains. It is impractical to train separate models for all possible situations because collecting and labelling the data is expensive. Domain adaptation algorithms aim to ameliorate domain shift, allowing a model trained on a source to perform well on a different target domain. However, even for the setting of unsupervised domain adaptation, where the target domain is unlabelled, collecting data for every possible target domain is still costly. In this paper, we propose a new domain adaptation method that has no need to access either data or labels of the target domain when it can be described by a parametrised vector and there exits several related source domains within the same parametric space. It greatly reduces the burden of data collection and annotation, and our experiments show some promising results.

本文提出了一种新的域自适应方法，当目标域可以被描述为参数化向量且存在几个相关源域在同一参数空间内时，它无需访问目标域的数据或标签，大大降低了数据收集和注释的负担，并显示出一些有前途的结果。

通过格里斯曼流形上的核回归进行零样本领域适应