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Stepwise TTA (N=30) 5.33 8.64 11.50
Online TTA (N=30) 5.42 8.69 11.58
Table 7: Comparative results on DOTA dataset with large vehicle and
ship as the target class during training and inference respectively.
Method C=25 C=50 C=75
without TTA (N=36) 2.69 4.38 5.84
TTT [27] (N=36) 2.70 4.39 5.84
FixMatch [26] (N=36) 2.70 4.39 5.84
Stepwise TTA (N=36) 2.71 4.40 5.85
Online TTA (N=36) 2.73 4.42 5.98
6. Conclusion
Our results show that VAS is an effective framework for
geospatial broad area search. Notably, by applying simple
TTA techniques, the performance of VAS can be further im-
proved at test time in a way that is robust to target class shift.
The proposed VAS framework also suggests a myriad of fu-
ture directions. For example, it may be useful to develop
more effective approaches for learning to search within a
task, as is common in past active search work. Addition-
ally, the search process may often involve additional con-
straints, such as constraints on the sequence of regions to
query. Moreover, it’s natural to generalize query outcomes
to be non-binary (e.g., returning the number of target object
instances in a region).
Acknowledgments This research was partially supported
by the NSF (IIS-1905558, IIS-1903207, and IIS-2214141),
ARO (W911NF-18-1-0208), Amazon, NVIDIA, and the
Taylor Geospatial Institute.
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