Gene Whipps

Pengcheng Xu, Prudhvi Gurram, Gene Whipps et al.

In this paper, we present an adversarial unsupervised domain adaptation framework for object detection. Prior approaches utilize adversarial training based on cross entropy between the source and target domain distributions to learn a shared feature mapping that minimizes the domain gap. Here, we minimize the Wasserstein distance between the two distributions instead of cross entropy or Jensen-Shannon divergence to improve the stability of domain adaptation in high-dimensional feature spaces that are inherent to object detection task. Additionally, we remove the exact consistency constraint of the shared feature mapping between the source and target domains, so that the target feature mapping can be optimized independently, which is necessary in the case of significant domain gap. We empirically show that the proposed framework can mitigate domain shift in different scenarios, and provide improved target domain object detection performance.

Taposh Banerjee, Gene Whipps, Prudhvi Gurram et al.

A framework is proposed to detect anomalies in multi-modal data. A deep neural network-based object detector is employed to extract counts of objects and sub-events from the data. A cyclostationary model is proposed to model regular patterns of behavior in the count sequences. The anomaly detection problem is formulated as a problem of detecting deviations from learned cyclostationary behavior. Sequential algorithms are proposed to detect anomalies using the proposed model. The proposed algorithms are shown to be asymptotically efficient in a well-defined sense. The developed algorithms are applied to a multi-modal data consisting of CCTV imagery and social media posts to detect a 5K run in New York City.