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Within the context of detection of incongruent events, an often overlooked aspect is how a system should react to the detection. The set of all the possible actions is certainly conditioned by the task at hand, and by the embodiment of the artificial cognitive system under consideration. Still, we argue that a desirable action that does not depend from these factors is to update the internal model and learn the new detected event. This paper proposes a recent transfer learning algorithm as the way to address this issue. A notable feature of the proposed model is its capability to learn from small samples, even a single one. This is very desirable in this context, as we cannot expect to have too many samples to learn from, given the very nature of incongruent events.We also show that one of the internal parameters of the algorithm makes it possible to quantitatively measure incongruence of detected events. Experiments on two different datasets support our claim.
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Tommasi, T., Caputo, B. (2012). Towards a Quantitative Measure of Rareness. In: Weinshall, D., Anemüller, J., van Gool, L. (eds) Detection and Identification of Rare Audiovisual Cues. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 384. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24034-8_11
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