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Object Detection for Unseen Domains while Reducing Response Time using Knowledge Transfer in Multimedia Event Processing

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Object Detection for Unseen Domains while Reducing Response
Time using Knowledge Transfer in Multimedia Event Processing
Asra Aslam
(Supervised by Edward Curry)
Insight Centre for Data Analytics,
NUI Galway, Ireland
asra.aslam@insight-centre.org
ABSTRACT
Event recognition is among one of the popular areas of smart cities
that has attracted great attention for researchers. Since Internet of
Things (IoT) is mainly focused on scalar data events, research is
shifting towards the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT) and is
still in infancy. Presently multimedia event-based solutions provide
low response-time, but they are domain-specic and can handle
only familiar classes (bounded vocabulary). However multiple ap-
plications within smart cities may require processing of numerous
familiar as well as unseen concepts (unbounded vocabulary) in the
form of subscriptions. Deep neural network-based techniques are
popular for image recognition, but have the limitation of training
of classiers for unseen concepts as well as the requirement of an-
notated bounding boxes with images. In this work, we explore the
problem of training of classiers for unseen/unknown classes while
reducing response-time of multimedia event processing (specically
object detection). We proposed two domain adaptation based mod-
els while leveraging Transfer Learning (TL) and Large Scale Detec-
tion through Adaptation (LSDA). The preliminary results show that
proposed framework can achieve 0.5 mAP (mean Average Precision)
within 30 min of response-time for unseen concepts. We expect
to improve it further using modied LSDA while applying fastest
classication (MobileNet) and detection (YOLOv3) network, along
with elimination of requirement of annotated bounding boxes.
CCS CONCEPTS
Information systems
Multimedia streaming;
Computing
methodologies
Neural networks;
Software and its engineer-
ing Publish-subscribe / event-based architectures.
KEYWORDS
Domain Adaptation, Internet of Multimedia Things, Event-Based
Systems, Object Detection, Transfer Learning, Smart Cities
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1 INTRODUCTION
The revision of the Internet of Things (IoT) for multimedia commu-
nication in the form of the Internet of Multimedia Things (IoMT)
is getting popular in smart cities due to the abrupt increase in
multimedia trac in the last decade [
2
,
3
,
25
,
33
,
42
]. IoT middle-
ware is responsible for providing common services to applications
and eases the development process, but it is still applied to scalar
data events [
36
]. Thus event-based systems cannot natively in-
clude multimedia events produced by IoMT generated data. On the
other hand, existing multimedia event-based approaches exhibit
high performance but the applicable for only specic domains (like
public transportation, surveillance systems, parking management,
sports events etc.), and hence can handle only familiar classes (have
bounded/closed vocabulary) [
50
]. Moreover the requirement of
availability of training data for unseen categories/classes is also
realized in literature [
17
,
18
,
44
] for Deep Neural Network (DNN)
based models, with no consideration for the duration of training
time of classiers. It is not clear in existing approaches how to deal
with multiple multimedia applications which may require handling
of multiple types of subscriptions (i.e. unbounded vocabulary) while
providing low response-time.
In this work we utilize the multimedia event processing model of
our published work [
4
6
] and remove the limitation of availability
of trained classiers using the adaptive framework shown in Fig. 1.
We propose two dierent approaches for the training of DNN based
classiers to recognize unseen/new classes while minimizing the
response-time. In the rst one, we utilize Transfer Learning (TL)
from pre-trained models which reduces response-time and requires
images with bounding boxes. In the second approach, we present
a modied version of Large Scale Detection through Adaptation
(LSDA) where we expect to reduce response time and require only
image labels without bounding boxes. Our experiments evaluate
the rst approach using current object detecting models and demon-
strate that the proposed framework can achieve 0.5 mAP within a
30 min response-time for unseen concepts. However this approach
requires Object-level annotations (i.e. annotated bounding boxes).
Since Image-level annotations (i.e. without bounding boxes) are
comparatively easy to acquire, we intend to improve it further using
our second approach of modied LSDA where we will not require
bounding boxes for the training of classiers and expect a decrease
in response-time.
The contributions of our work include formulating the problem
of processing multimedia events without detection data while min-
imizing response-time, adaptive architecture for the detection of
unseen (new) domains, approach to convert classier into detector
with and without bounding box annotations, and evaluations on
object detection models to identify the best performance that can
be provided in terms of both accuracy and response time.
2 STATE OF THE ART
Image recognition [
20
,
31
] is now able to detect multimedia events
when a camera senses a certain object and send real-time alerts
via text/image messages to users. Multiple scenarios of multimedia
events could include trac congestion, road accidents, change in
weather, terrorist attacks, parking problems, security, etc. Event
processing systems are designed to process the subscription of a
user based on standard languages in response to events and mainly
include the entities: events, subscriptions, and matcher [
12
,
48
].
Presently event processing systems are only focused on structured
(scalar) events for the processing of subscriptions of a user [
9
,
15
,
49
].
In the context of multimedia “an event is the representation of a
change of state in a multimedia item planned and attended” [
1
]. Ex-
isting multimedia event processing systems [
8
,
22
,
27
,
32
] generally
provide high performance but have domain specic characteristics
with bounded vocabulary, high setup cost, and cannot be adapted
to multiple domains.
Domain Adaptation is the ability to utilize the knowledge of
existing domains to identify unknown domains [
7
,
11
,
47
]. Since
transfer learning makes machine learning algorithms more ecient,
knowledge transfer is becoming more desirable within application
of machine learning based techniques [
46
]. Existing approaches
[
34
] in transfer learning are focused on the generalization ability
of classiers for the enhancement of accuracy, but not the overall
response time specically. Domain adaptation based methods are
also presented in literature [
10
,
21
,
41
] for transferring the appear-
ance models of the familiar objects to an unseen object. They are
also motivated with the fact that annotation of bounding boxes
for unseen/unknown classes is an expensive and time-consuming
process. They further demonstrate that it is possible to transfer ap-
pearance model from one object class to another based on semantic
and/or visual relationship. However, here domain shift represents
dierent change in view-points, weather conditions, backgrounds,
image quality, sketches etc.
Object recognition has been an area of extensive research for a
long time, resulting in several successful DNN based object detec-
tion models. One of the major challenge in training object detection
models is the need to collect a large amount of images with bound-
ing box annotations. Large Scale Detection through Adaptation
(LSDA) [
17
,
18
], is a method that learns the dierence between the
two tasks (classication and detection) and transfers this knowl-
edge to classiers to turn them into detectors. Another research
[
44
,
45
] incorporates the knowledge of object similarities from vi-
sual as well as semantic domains to the transfer process to improve
the previous work of LSDA. The motivation behind this work is
that visually and semantically similar categories should provide
more accurate detectors as compared to dissimilar categories, e.g.
a better detector can be constructed for the cat class by learning
the dierences between a dog classier and a dog detector, than
would by learning from the violin class classier and detector. How-
ever, these approaches do not consider on the long training time of
classiers, which increases the overall response time.
3 PROBLEM FORMULATION
Our work aims to answer the question: can we answer online user
queries consisting of familiar (bounded vocabulary) as well as un-
seen subscriptions (unbounded vocabulary) that include processing
of multimedia events while achieving high accuracy and minimiz-
ing the response time, where the training of classiers may or may
not have bounding box annotations available? Here, “Response-
Time” is the time dierence between the time subscription arrived
and the time at which the system is ready to notify the subscriber
(shown in Fig. 1). By assuming domain adaptation time as
tda
, data
collection time as
tdc
, and testing time as
tt
, we can formally dene
response time (trt ) as:
tr t =tda +tdc +tt(1)
On the basis of availability of bounding box annotations for unseen
subscriptions, our problem consist of two scenarios:
Scenario-1: Object-Level Annotations Available:
This scenario
assumes we can collect images with bounding box annotations by
using object detection datasets (like Pascal VOC, Microsoft COCO,
Open Images Dataset etc. [
14
,
23
,
29
]) or online data collection toolk-
its
1
. However, all of these object detection datasets have bounded
vocabulary consisting of 20, 80, and 600 classes respectively, and
thus it is not possible to provide bounding box labels for thousands,
or millions, of classes. Moreover it is much easier to provide image-
level annotations, which direct us to Scenario-2.
Scenario-2: Image-Level Annotations Available:
In this case, we
assume only image labels are available with no bounding boxes.
Such image level annotations can be obtained using ImageNet [
13
]
online data collection toolkit
2
or using image tags on any (i.e. Flickr,
Google, and/or Bing) image web search.
1https://github.com/EscVM/OIDv4_ToolKit
2https://github.com/tzutalin/ImageNet_Utils
(a) Model-1 for Object-Level Annotations (b) Model-2 for Image-Level Annotations (No Bounding Boxes)
Figure 2: Proposed Models (where Bounding Boxes Annotations may or may not be available)
4 PROPOSED APPROACHES
In this section, we introduce two models (shown in Fig. 2) to ad-
dress the specied problem. In the rst model we utilize transfer
learning based domain adaptation techniques and DNN based ob-
ject detection models, for minimizing response-time and increasing
the accuracy. In the second model we intend to incorporate LSDA
and modify it using MobileNet [
19
] as a classication model and
YOLOv3 [
38
,
39
] as object detection model. We use visual and se-
mantic knowledge in both models to identify which class is suitable
for knowledge transfer.
4.1 Object-Level Annotations Available
Suppose we have a detector for class “dog”available, then how can
we answer for subscription class “cat” when we can collect anno-
tated bounded boxes for cat? This represents scenario-1 (Section–3)
where cat class is previously unseen for the multimedia event pro-
cessing model. Here, the rst step (shown in Fig. 2a) is to utilize vi-
sual and semantic knowledge to identify which class (e.g. dog, tiger,
piano) among familiar classes of model, is most suitable for knowl-
edge transfer to construct detector for unfamiliar (unseen) class
(cat). Include chosen source (dog) class detector as well as available
training data (having annotated bounding boxes) for destination
class (cat). Then we convert source-detector to destination-detector
using domain adaptation based transfer learning techniques. We
use two techniques for transferring knowledge: (i) ne-tuning pre-
trained models (ii) freezing backbone [
16
,
37
,
43
] of similar clas-
siers while training only top layers. We apply the ne-tuning
technique only when we do not nd any suitable source classier
similar to the destination classier based on threshold, where we
use ImageNet [
13
] as a pre-trained model. In the second approach,
we instantiate the network of destination-detector using weights
of source-detector and then freeze backbone (convolutional and
pooling layers) while training only top fully connected layers with
softmax as output layer. Finally, we expect to construct a more
accurate destination class detector with reduced training time.
4.2 Image-Level Annotations Available
Consider a case when we have a classier as well as detector for
class “dog” available, then how can we answer for subscription
“cat” when we can collect only image level labels, and not bounding
box annotations for cat? This addresses problem for Scenario-2
(Section–3) and also appears to be an important use case of existing
models based on LSDA [
18
,
44
,
45
]. As stated, LSDA is one of the
popular algorithms that learns to transform an image classier into
an object detector. For categories where object-level annotations are
available, LSDA utilizes an AlexNet [24] pre-trained on ImageNet,
and ne-tuned into a detector with bounding boxes by utlizing the
RCNN framework [
40
]. Finally, these classiers serve as source clas-
siers for destination classes having only image-level annotations
available, and adapted into detectors by learning category-specic
transformation of source model parameters. Proposed Model-2 for
“Image-Level Annotations Available” shown in Fig. 2b follows the
same framework of LSDA and guidelines of Model-1. In this case
we are free to collect image level data from any web source like
Google, Bing, Flickr images or ImageNet Utils. It may include a
construction step for the destination class classier. However, by
combining it with our modied LSDA, we expect to have more
accurate results in less response-time as compared to conventional
LDSA. Modied LSDA makes use of MobileNet in place of AlexNet
for classication, and also takes advantage of much faster object
detection models like YOLOv3 (as compared to RCNN in the LSDA).
Nevertheless, the extent of improvement in performance by using
Model-2 is still an open question, and has associated risks, and can
be validated only after further experimentation.
5 EVALUATIONS TO DATE
This section summarizes the results of our current works which
are in progress or published [
4
6
]. We compare the detection per-
formance of proposed model with adaptation based techniques
against object detection models (YOLOv3, SSD300, and RetinaNet
[
28
,
30
,
38
]) using Pascal VOC and Open images Datasets [
14
,
26
].
The results for mean Average Precision (mAP) using Model-1 are
summarized in Table 1. The rst row shows the detection perfor-
mance for training (of 30 min) from scratch (i.e. without adaptation),
achieving maximum mAP of 0
.
21 on RetinaNet. The second row
could serve as a baseline for domain adaptation, where we use
similar classier for the detection of an unseen class before train-
ing (i.e. response-time=0). Here, we assume a similar classier is
available for unfamiliar/unseen class and thus applies domain adap-
tation. Row third are the results of ne-tuning pre-trained model
(trained on ImageNet [
13
]). Finally, the last row shows the detection
performance by freezing the backbone and training top layers for
30 min of response-time. These experiments (with best mAP of
0
.
50 on YOLOv3) verify the achievement of high accuracy in low
response-time for proposed Model-1.
Table 1: Summarizing mean Average Precision (mAP) on Proposed Model
Methods Description of Detectors for Unseen Classes YOLOv3 SSD300 RetinaNet
Detector without
Adaptation
Construct classier by training from Scratch (assuming no similar classier or
pre-trained model available) 0.0695 0.0000 0.2121
Detector with
Use Similar (i.e. Nearest) Classier for Unseen Class (baseline as no training
required here i.e. response-time=0) 0.0421 0.0635 0.0818
Adaptation Construct classier by ne-tuning Pre-Trained Model (presently ImageNet) 0.1200 0.1685 0.3638
Construct classier by freezing backbone of Similar (i.e. Nearest) Classier 0.5000 0.1557 0.1713
Table 2: Detection mAP on Specic Domain Transfers using dierent Domain Adaptation techniques
Classes Semantic
Similarity Score Method of Domain Adaptation YOLOv3 SSD300 RetinaNet
Laptop Detector tested for Mango (baseline) NaN 0.0047 0.0046
Mango Laptop 0.08 Mango Detector from pre-trained model NaN 0.1439 0.1667
Mango Detector from Laptop Detector 0.2000 0.0818 0.0973
Cat Detector tested for Dog (baseline) 0.0000 0.2123 0.2446
Dog Cat 0.20 Dog Detector from pre-trained model 0.5254 0.2120 0.2159
Dog Detector from Cat Detector 0.6875 0.2504 0.2307
Football Detector tested for Cricket ball (baseline) 0.0000 0.0000 0.0111
Cricket_Ball Football 0.33 Cricket ball Detector from pre-trained model NaN 0.00 0.0375
Cricket ball Detector from Football Detector 0.0000 0.0000 0.0120
Car Detector tested for Bus (baseline) 0.1683 0.0371 0.0668
Bus Car 0.50 Bus Detector from pre-trained model 0.7213 0.0938 0.1110
Bus Detector from Car Detector 0.5821 0.1127 0.0808
NaN: Not a Number
Table 3: Detection mAP on Specic Subscriptions using dierent Object Detection Models
Object Detection Models Cat Dog Cricket_Ball Mango Car Bus Bicycle Laptop Football
YOLOv3 0.8181 0.6875 0.0000 0.2000 0.8763 0.5821 0.8227 0.2805 0.2857
SSD300 0.1749 0.2504 0.0000 0.0818 0.6058 0.1127 0.1463 0.0000 0.0108
RetinaNet 0.2633 0.2307 0.0120 0.0973 0.6736 0.0808 0.3501 0.0000 0.0300
In order to determine relatedness among similar classiers, presently
we are using WordNet [
35
] with the path operator. Table 2 shows
four examples of classes on domain transfers with dierent similar-
ity scores. It can be concluded for Model-1 that adapting from one
domain (class) to another mostly yields high performance results
in low response-time as compared to ne-tuning of detectors on
pre-trained model (like ImageNet). Here we also have a simple base-
line where the nearest neighbors are used to detect an unseen class
without training, thus resulting in low mAP but zero response-time.
Table 3 shows the overall performance of the proposed model
on specic subscriptions belongs to dierent applications of smart
cities. However, experiments with Model-2 of modied LSDA while
applying fastest classication (MobileNet [
19
]) as well as detection
(YOLOv3 [
38
]) network are still in implementation phases. Lastly,
we also aim to improve it further by incorporating visual knowledge
transfer along with semantic knowledge in proposed models 1 & 2.
6 CONCLUSION AND PLANNED WORK
In this work, we analyzed the problem of training of classiers on-
demand for previously unseen/unknown concepts along with the
aim of reducing response-time for the multimedia event processing.
We presented two models for the domain adaptation of classiers
while leveraging transfer learning (ne-tuning top and freezing
backbone) and LSDA based techniques. We have conducted experi-
ments using the rst approach and achieve 0.5 mAP within 30 min
of response-time.
As part of work in progress, the proposed approach for mod-
ied LSDA is in its implementation phase, and we are planning
to compare it with our rst model using existing object detection
models with and without domain adaptation. Since the second
method will no longer require bounding box annotations, it should
reduce online data collection/construction time which contributes
towards response time. However, we still have two open questions:
(1) whether the second LSDA based model will be able to reduce
response-time further by decreasing the overall training time? (2)
What will be its impact on accuracy of unseen/weak class detector?
To reach the best case for both questions, we aim to use MobileNet
[
19
] and YOLOv3 [
38
] in training network, which themselves are
the fastest classication and detection models known to date, while
incorporating visual along with semantic knowledge transfers.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This work was supported by Science Foundation Ireland under grant
SFI/12/RC/2289_P2. Titan Xp GPU used was donated by NVIDIA.
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