  Deep models trained on large-scale RGB image datasets have shown tremendous
success. It is important to apply such deep models to real-world problems.
However, these models suffer from a performance bottleneck under illumination
changes. Thermal IR cameras are more robust against such changes, and thus can
be very useful for the real-world problems. In order to investigate efficacy of
combining feature-rich visible spectrum and thermal image modalities, we
propose an unsupervised domain adaptation method which does not require
RGB-to-thermal image pairs. We employ large-scale RGB dataset MS-COCO as source
domain and thermal dataset FLIR ADAS as target domain to demonstrate results of
our method. Although adversarial domain adaptation methods aim to align the
distributions of source and target domains, simply aligning the distributions
cannot guarantee perfect generalization to the target domain. To this end, we
propose a self-training guided adversarial domain adaptation method to promote
generalization capabilities of adversarial domain adaptation methods. To
perform self-training, pseudo labels are assigned to the samples on the target
thermal domain to learn more generalized representations for the target domain.
Extensive experimental analyses show that our proposed method achieves better
results than the state-of-the-art adversarial domain adaptation methods. The
code and models are publicly available.
