Joint Image Restoration For Domain Adaptive Object Detection In Foggy Weather Condition

Driven by deep learning, object detection methods have made significant progress in recent years. However, there is still a domain shift between synthetic foggy data and real foggy data, this leads to a undesirable decrease in detection results when applying the algorithm model trained on synthetic foggy datasets. In this article, we design a domain-adaptive YOLOX object detection algorithm by joint image restoration, in order to improve object detection performance in foggy scenes. Specially, we design an end-to-end domain adaptive framework that combines dehazing module and YOLOX together. To achieve feature alignment, we introduced a domain classifier in the feature spaceand discuss its optimal placement in the framework. Experimental results show that the proposed domain adaptation method achieved 62.60 percent mAP on real foggy image datasets RTTs, outperforming other state-of-the-art methods.