1. Learning on the Fly:
Rapid Adaptation to the Image
Erik Learned-Miller
with Vidit Jain, Gary Huang,
Laura Sevilla Lara, Manju Narayana,
Ben Mears
Computer Science Department
2. “Traditional” machine learning
Learning happens from large data sets
• With labels: supervised learning
• Without labels: unsupervised learning
• Mixed labels: semi-supervised learning,
transfer learning,
learning from one (labeled) example,
self-taught learning,
domain adaptation
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3. Learning on the Fly
Given:
• A learning machine trained with traditional methods
• a single test image (no labels)
Learn from the test image!
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4. Learning on the Fly
Given:
• A learning machine trained with traditional methods
• a single test image (no labels)
Learn from the test image!
• Domain adaptation where the “domain” is the new
image
• No covariate shift assumption.
• No new labels
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5. An Example in Computer Vision
Parsing Images of Architectural Scenes
Berg, Grabler, and Malik ICCV 2007.
• Detect easy or “canonical” stuff.
• Use easily detected stuff to bootstrap models of harder
stuff.
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6. Claim
This is so easy and routine for humans that it’s
hard to realize we’re doing it.
• Another example…
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10. What about traditional methods…
Hidden Markov Model for text recognition:
• Appearance model for characters
• Language model for labels
• Use Viterbi to do joint inference
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11. What about traditional methods…
Hidden Markov Model for text recognition:
• Appearance model for characters
• Language model for labels
• Use Viterbi to do joint inference
DOESN’T WORK!
Prob( |Label=A) cannot be well estimated,
fouling up the whole process.
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12. Lessons
We must assess when our models are broken,
and use other methods to proceed….
• Current methods of inference assume probabilities are
correct!
• “In vision, probabilities are often junk.”
• Related to similarity becoming meaningless beyond a
certain distance.
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13. 2 Examples
Face detection (CVPR 2011)
OCR (CVPR 2010)
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14. Preview of results: Finding false negatives
Viola-Jones Learning on the Fly
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18. Run a pre-existing detector...
Key
Face
Non-face
Close to
boundary
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19. Gaussian Process Regression
learn smooth mapping
from appearance to score
negative positive
apply mapping to borderline
patches
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21. Comments
No need to retrain original detector
• It wouldn’t change anyway!
No need to access original training data
Still runs in real-time
GP regression is done for every new image.
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22. Noisy Document
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23. Premise
We would like to fine confident words
to build a document-specific model,
but it is difficult to estimate Prob(error).
However, we can bound Prob(error).
Now, select words with
• Prob(error)<epsilon.
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25. Document specific OCR
Extract clean sets (error bounded sets)
Build document-specific models from clean set
characters
Reclassify other characters in document
• 30% error reduction on 56 documents.
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26. Summary
Many applications of learning on the fly.
Adaptation and bootstrapping new models is
more common in human learning than is
generally believed.
Starting to answer the question: “How can we do
domain adaptation from a single image?”
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