[visionlist] Master Thesis: Domain Adaptation for RGB-D Data Using Kinect

[Haider Ali]

Learning for Object recognition in the RGB-D is a fundamental problem in robotics and computer vision
community. One key problem with object detectors is that they work well on the data they are trained on but generalize poorly to data
from other domains. In this context, a domain may refer to data of a certain type, from a certain source, or generated in a certain period
in time. In practice, object detectors are often trained on a particular domain but in the application phase might be applied to
another one. This degrades detector performance, a phenomenon that is commonly referred to as domain change problem. The domain change
problem has recently been studied in the computer vision community, and approaches to tackle this problem by adapting pre-trained object
detectors in images and videos to new domains have been proposed. However, little work has been done on understanding the effects of
domain change on RGB-D data. This work will investigate domain change problem in RGB-D data and will investigate approaches for domain adaptation – i.e. how can an
RGB-D object detector trained on one domain be quickly adapted to the new domain by using a few labeled samples from that domain.
Furthermore, a study of state-of-the-art RGB-D feature extractors / object classifiers will be performed to identify which combinations
remain least affected by the domain change problem. application
procedure
To apply, please email us with the following information: * a letter of interest, including your prospective period of stay (note we normally do not accept students for less than 5 months) * a CV * a list of courses followed and grades * names of references, where applicable
Please email all files as PDF to:  ---------------------------------------- 
Dr. Haider Ali German Aerospace Center
Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics(RM)
Münchner Straße 20
82234 Oberpfaffenhofen-Wessling 
eMail: Haider.Ali at dlr.de 
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