Transfer Learning Based on Joint Feature Matching and Adversarial Networks

Domain adaptation and adversarial networks are two main approaches for transfer learning. Domain adaptation methods match the mean values of source and target domains, which requires a very large batch size during training. However, adversarial networks are usually unstable when training. In this paper, we propose a joint method of feature matching and adversarial networks to reduce domain discrepancy and mine domaininvariant features from the local and global aspects. At the same time, our method improves the stability of training. Moreover, the method is embedded into a unified convolutional neural network that can be easily optimized by gradient descent. Experimental results show that our joint method can yield the state-of-the-art results on three common public datasets. © 2019, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.