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Qing Tian

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preprint2026arXiv

AIDA-ReID: Adaptive Intermediate Domain Adaptation for Generalizable and Source-Free Person Re-Identification

Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to match images of the same individual across non-overlapping camera views and remains challenging due to domain shifts caused by variations in illumination, background, camera characteristics, and population distributions. Although supervised models perform well under matched training and testing conditions, their performance degrades significantly when deployed in unseen environments. Existing intermediate domain approaches such as IDM and IDM++ alleviate this gap by constructing bridge feature distributions between domains; however, they rely on fixed mixing strategies and joint source-target access, limiting their applicability to multi-source and source-free settings. To address these limitations, this paper proposes Adaptive Intermediate Domain Adaptation (AIDA), also referred to as Source-Free Multi-Source Intermediate Domain Adaptation (SF-MIDA). The proposed framework treats intermediate-domain learning as a dynamically regulated process, where feature mixing and regularization strength are adaptively controlled using feedback signals derived from model uncertainty and training stability. A multi-source intermediate domain generator synthesizes diverse intermediate representations, while a pseudo-mirror regularization strategy preserves identity consistency under domain perturbations. Extensive experiments across domain generalization and source-free settings demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

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preprint2022arXiv

Adversarial Attack and Defense of YOLO Detectors in Autonomous Driving Scenarios

Visual detection is a key task in autonomous driving, and it serves as a crucial foundation for self-driving planning and control. Deep neural networks have achieved promising results in various visual tasks, but they are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A comprehensive understanding of deep visual detectors' vulnerability is required before people can improve their robustness. However, only a few adversarial attack/defense works have focused on object detection, and most of them employed only classification and/or localization losses, ignoring the objectness aspect. In this paper, we identify a serious objectness-related adversarial vulnerability in YOLO detectors and present an effective attack strategy targeting the objectness aspect of visual detection in autonomous vehicles. Furthermore, to address such vulnerability, we propose a new objectness-aware adversarial training approach for visual detection. Experiments show that the proposed attack targeting the objectness aspect is 45.17% and 43.50% more effective than those generated from classification and/or localization losses on the KITTI and COCO traffic datasets, respectively. Also, the proposed adversarial defense approach can improve the detectors' robustness against objectness-oriented attacks by up to 21% and 12% mAP on KITTI and COCO traffic, respectively.

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preprint2021arXiv

Improving Apparel Detection with Category Grouping and Multi-grained Branches

Training an accurate object detector is expensive and time-consuming. One main reason lies in the laborious labeling process, i.e., annotating category and bounding box information for all instances in every image. In this paper, we examine ways to improve performance of deep object detectors without extra labeling. We first explore to group existing categories of high visual and semantic similarities together as one super category (or, a superclass). Then, we study how this knowledge of hierarchical categories can be exploited to better detect object using multi-grained RCNN top branches. Experimental results on DeepFashion2 and OpenImagesV4-Clothing reveal that the proposed detection heads with multi-grained branches can boost the overall performance by 2.3 mAP for DeepFashion2 and 2.5 mAP for OpenImagesV4-Clothing with no additional time-consuming annotations. More importantly, classes that have fewer training samples tend to benefit more from the proposed multi-grained heads with superclass grouping. In particular, we improve the mAP for last 30% categories (in terms of training sample number) by 2.6 and 4.6 for DeepFashion2 and OpenImagesV4-Clothing, respectively.

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preprint2018arXiv

Efficient Gender Classification Using a Deep LDA-Pruned Net

Many real-time tasks, such as human-computer interaction, require fast and efficient facial gender classification. Although deep CNN nets have been very effective for a multitude of classification tasks, their high space and time demands make them impractical for personal computers and mobile devices without a powerful GPU. In this paper, we develop a 16-layer, yet lightweight, neural network which boosts efficiency while maintaining high accuracy. Our net is pruned from the VGG-16 model starting from the last convolutional (conv) layer where we find neuron activations are highly uncorrelated given the gender. Through Fisher's Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), we show that this high decorrelation makes it safe to discard directly last conv layer neurons with high within-class variance and low between-class variance. Combined with either Support Vector Machines (SVM) or Bayesian classification, the reduced CNNs are capable of achieving comparable (or even higher) accuracies on the LFW and CelebA datasets than the original net with fully connected layers. On LFW, only four Conv5_3 neurons are able to maintain a comparably high recognition accuracy, which results in a reduction of total network size by a factor of 70X with a 11 fold speedup. Comparisons with a state-of-the-art pruning method as well as two smaller nets in terms of accuracy loss and convolutional layers pruning rate are also provided.

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preprint2016arXiv

A Unified Gender-Aware Age Estimation

Human age estimation has attracted increasing researches due to its wide applicability in such as security monitoring and advertisement recommendation. Although a variety of methods have been proposed, most of them focus only on the age-specific facial appearance. However, biological researches have shown that not only gender but also the aging difference between the male and the female inevitably affect the age estimation. To our knowledge, so far there have been two methods that have concerned the gender factor. The first is a sequential method which first classifies the gender and then performs age estimation respectively for classified male and female. Although it promotes age estimation performance because of its consideration on the gender semantic difference, an accumulation risk of estimation errors is unavoidable. To overcome drawbacks of the sequential strategy, the second is to regress the age appended with the gender by concatenating their labels as two dimensional output using Partial Least Squares (PLS). Although leading to promotion of age estimation performance, such a concatenation not only likely confuses the semantics between the gender and age, but also ignores the aging discrepancy between the male and the female. In order to overcome their shortcomings, in this paper we propose a unified framework to perform gender-aware age estimation. The proposed method considers and utilizes not only the semantic relationship between the gender and the age, but also the aging discrepancy between the male and the female. Finally, experimental results demonstrate not only the superiority of our method in performance, but also its good interpretability in revealing the aging discrepancy.

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preprint2016arXiv

Joint Gender Classification and Age Estimation by Nearly Orthogonalizing Their Semantic Spaces

In human face-based biometrics, gender classification and age estimation are two typical learning tasks. Although a variety of approaches have been proposed to handle them, just a few of them are solved jointly, even so, these joint methods do not yet specifically concern the semantic difference between human gender and age, which is intuitively helpful for joint learning, consequently leaving us a room of further improving the performance. To this end, in this work we firstly propose a general learning framework for jointly estimating human gender and age by specially attempting to formulate such semantic relationships as a form of near-orthogonality regularization and then incorporate it into the objective of the joint learning framework. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we exemplify it by respectively taking the widely used binary-class SVM for gender classification, and two threshold-based ordinal regression methods (i.e., the discriminant learning for ordinal regression and support vector ordinal regression) for age estimation, and crucially coupling both through the proposed semantic formulation. Moreover, we develop its kernelized nonlinear counterpart by deriving a representer theorem for the joint learning strategy. Finally, through extensive experiments on three aging datasets FG-NET, Morph Album I and Morph Album II, we demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed joint learning strategy.

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