  This paper proposes a method for domain adaptation that extends the maximum
margin domain transfer (MMDT) proposed by Hoffman et al., by introducing L2
distance constraints between samples of different domains; thus, our method is
denoted as MMDTL2. Motivated by the differences between the images taken by
narrow band imaging (NBI) endoscopic devices, we utilize different NBI devices
as different domains and estimate the transformations between samples of
different domains, i.e., image samples taken by different NBI endoscope
systems. We first formulate the problem in the primal form, and then derive the
dual form with much lesser computational costs as compared to the naive
approach. From our experimental results using NBI image datasets from two
different NBI endoscopic devices, we find that MMDTL2 is better than MMDT and
also support vector machines without adaptation, especially when NBI image
features are high-dimensional and the per-class training samples are greater
than 20.
