Learning features from irrelevant domains through deep neural network

Abstract

AbstractFeatures of data are much critical to the classification. However, when only small data are available, suitable features can not be easily obtained, easily leading to the bad classification performance. This paper propose a novel approach to automatically learns features from the irrelevant domain with much discriminative features for the given classification task. It first computes as the learning objectives the central vectors of each class in the irrelevant domain, and then uses machine learning method to automatically learn features for each sample in the target domain from these objectives. The merits of our method lie in that unlike the transfer learning, our method does not require the similarity between two domains. It can learn features from much discriminative domains. Its learned features are not limited to its original ones, unlike feature selection and feature extraction methods, so that the classification performance with the learned features can be better. Finally, our method is much general, simple, and efficient. Lots of experimental results validated the proposed method.