Domain Adaptive Dictionary Learning

Qiang Qiu, Vishal M. Patel, Pavan K. Turaga, Rama Chellappa

Abstract: Many recent efforts have shown the effectiveness of dictionary learning methods in solving several computer vision problems. However, when designing dictionaries, training and testing domains may be different, due to different view points and illumination conditions. In this paper, we present a function learning framework for the task of transforming a dictionary learned from one visual domain to the other, while maintaining a domain-invariant sparse representation of a signal. Domain dictionaries are modeled by a linear or non-linear parametric function. The dictionary function parameters and domain-invariant sparse codes are then jointly learned by solving an optimization problem. Experiments on real datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach for applications such as face recognition, pose alignment and pose estimation.