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Models trained for classification often assume that all testing classes are known while training. As a result, when presented with an unknown class during testing, such closed-set assumption forces the model to classify it as one of the known classes. However, in a real world scenario, classification models are likely to encounter such examples. Hence, identifying those examples as unknown becomes critical to model performance. A potential solution to overcome this problem lies in a class of learning problems known as open-set recognition. It refers to the problem of identifying the unknown classes during testing, while maintaining performance on the known classes. In this paper, we propose an open-set recognition algorithm using class conditioned auto-encoders with novel training and testing methodology. In contrast to previous methods, training procedure is divided in two sub-tasks, 1. closedset classification and, 2. open-set identification (i.e. identifying a class as known or unknown). Encoder learns the first task following the closed-set classification training pipeline, whereas decoder learns the second task by reconstructing conditioned on class identity. Furthermore, we model reconstruction errors using the Extreme Value Theory of statistical modeling to find the threshold for identifying known/unknown class samples. Experiments performed on multiple image classification datasets show proposed method performs significantly better than state of the art.

We present a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based approach for one class classification. The idea is to use a zero centered Gaussian noise in the latent space as the pseudo-negative class and train the network using the crossentropy loss to learn a good representation as well as the decision boundary for the given class. A key feature of the proposed approach is that any pre-trained CNN can be used as the base network for one class classification. The proposed One Class CNN (OC-CNN) is evaluated on the UMDAA-02 Face, Abnormality-1001, FounderType-200 datasets. These datasets are related to a variety of one class application problems such as user authentication, abnormality detection and novelty detection. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves significant improvements over the recent state-of-the-art methods. The source code is available at : github.com/otkupjnoz/oc-cnn.

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Adverse weather conditions such as rain and haze corrupt the quality of captured images, which cause detection networks trained on clean images to perform poorly on these images. To address this issue, we propose an unsupervised prior-based domain adversarial object detection framework for adapting the detectors to different weather conditions. We make the observations that corruptions due to different weather conditions (i) follow the principles of physics and hence, can be mathematically modeled, and (ii) often cause degradations in the feature space leading to deterioration in the detection performance. Motivated by these, we propose to use weather-specific prior knowledge obtained using the principles of image formation to define a novel prior-adversarial loss. The prior-adversarial loss used to train the adaptation process aims to produce weather-invariant features by reducing the weather-specific information in the features, thereby mitigating the effects of weather on the detection performance. Additionally, we introduce a set of residual feature recovery blocks in the object detection pipeline to de-distort the feature space, resulting in further improvements. The proposed framework outperforms all existing methods by a large margin when evaluated on different datasets such as Foggy-Cityscapes, Rainy-Cityscapes, RTTS and UFDD.