Cross-Domain Object Classification via Successive Subspace Alignment

Recently, successive subspace learning (SSL)-based methods have shown to be effective for the task of visual object classification with mild data desire and mathematically transparent interpretable capability. However, existing SSL-based methods rely heavily on the data-centric subspace representations, leading to potential performance degradation problem in case of the domain shift between the training (a.k.a., source domain) and testing (a.k.a., target domain) data. To address this limitation, we propose an effective successive subspace learning method based on existing SSL-based methods. Specifically, we introduce a novel linear transformation layer to align eigenvectors in SSL module between source and target domains, as such, the discrepancy between source and target domains will be reduced, resulting in better cross-domain performance. The effectiveness of our proposed method is demonstrated on the Office-Caltech-10 and Office-31 benchmark datasets by using features extracted from pre-trained deep neural networks as input.