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12 May 2016 Deep transfer learning for automatic target classification: MWIR to LWIR
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When dealing with sparse or no labeled data in the target domain, transfer learning shows its appealing performance by borrowing the supervised knowledge from external domains. Recently deep structure learning has been exploited in transfer learning due to its attractive power in extracting effective knowledge through multi-layer strategy, so that deep transfer learning is promising to address the cross-domain mismatch. In general, cross-domain disparity can be resulted from the difference between source and target distributions or different modalities, e.g., Midwave IR (MWIR) and Longwave IR (LWIR). In this paper, we propose a Weighted Deep Transfer Learning framework for automatic target classification through a task-driven fashion. Specifically, deep features and classifier parameters are obtained simultaneously for optimal classification performance. In this way, the proposed deep structures can extract more effective features with the guidance of the classifier performance; on the other hand, the classifier performance is further improved since it is optimized on more discriminative features. Furthermore, we build a weighted scheme to couple source and target output by assigning pseudo labels to target data, therefore we can transfer knowledge from source (i.e., MWIR) to target (i.e., LWIR). Experimental results on real databases demonstrate the superiority of the proposed algorithm by comparing with others.
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Zhengming Ding, Nasser Nasrabadi, and Yun Fu "Deep transfer learning for automatic target classification: MWIR to LWIR", Proc. SPIE 9844, Automatic Target Recognition XXVI, 984408 (12 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2228378
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KEYWORDS
Detection and tracking algorithms

Mid-IR

Long wavelength infrared

Neural networks

Data modeling

Forward looking infrared

Automatic target recognition

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