# Gated Domain-Invariant Feature Disentanglement for Domain Generalizable Object Detection

Source: [Gated Domain-Invariant Feature Disentanglement for Domain Generalizable Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6c0d1e209131cea31b35>)

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Authors: Haozhuo Zhang, Huimin Yu, Yuming Yan, Runfa Wang

Published: 2022-03-22T03:12:53.000Z

## Abstract

For Domain Generalizable Object Detection (DGOD), Disentangled Representation Learning (DRL) helps a lot by explicitly disentangling Domain-Invariant Representations (DIR) from Domain-Specific Representations (DSR). Considering the domain category is an attribute of input data, it should be feasible for networks to fit a specific mapping which projects DSR into feature channels exclusive to domain-specific information, and thus much cleaner disentanglement of DIR from DSR can be achieved simply on channel dimension. Inspired by this idea, we propose a novel DRL method for DGOD, which is termed Gated Domain-Invariant Feature Disentanglement (GDIFD). In GDIFD, a Channel Gate Module (CGM) learns to output channel gate signals close to either 0 or 1, which can mask out the channels exclusive to domain-specific information helpful for domain recognition. With the proposed GDIFD, the backbone in our framework can fit the desired mapping easily, which enables the channel-wise disentanglement. In experiments, we demonstrate that our approach is highly effective and achieves state-of-the-art DGOD performance.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11432>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.11432.pdf>)
