Built independently by an author, for readers. Read the story and support ChapterPal

keyword

cross-domain detection

Cross-domain detection is a machine learning paradigm in which a detection model trained on data from one or more source domains is designed to accurately identify specific targets, objects, or patterns in a distinct target domain. In conventional machine learning systems, model accuracy typically declines when testing data diverges from the training distribution due to variations in context, environment, topic, or recording conditions, a phenomenon known as domain shift. Cross-domain detection addresses this discrepancy through domain adaptation, domain generalization, and feature alignment techniques that extract invariant representations between source and target datasets. This approach enables detectors to generalize reliably to new domains or adapt to novel operational scenarios with limited or no target-domain annotations.

3 items

Generalized UAV Object Detection via Frequency Domain Disentanglement

Generalized UAV Object Detection via Frequency Domain Disentanglement

Kunyu Wang, Xueyang Fu, Yukun Huang, Chengzhi Cao, Gege Shi, Zheng-Jun Zha

OrganizationsUniversity of Science and Technology of China

Why you should read this

Proposes a frequency-domain disentanglement framework using learnable spectral filters and instance-level contrastive learning to separate domain-invariant features from domain-specific variations, significantly improving drone-based object detection across unseen target environments.

When deploying the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles object detection (UAV-OD) network to complex and unseen real-world scenarios, the generalization ability is usually reduced due to the domain shift. To address this issue, this paper proposes a novel frequency domain disentanglement method to improve the UAV-OD generalization. Specifically, we first verified that the spectrum of different bands in the image has different effects to the UAV-OD generalization. Based on this conclusion, we design two learnable filters to extract domain-invariant spectrum and domain-specific spectrum, respectively. The former can be used to train the UAV-OD network and improve its capacity for generalization. In addition, we design a new instance-level contrastive loss to guide the network training. This loss enables the network to concentrate on extracting domain-invariant spectrum and domain-specific spectrum, so as to achieve better disentangling results. Experimental results on three unseen target domains demonstrate that our method has better generalization ability than both the base-line method and state-of-the-art methods.

Added

2026-09-26