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Beyond Deterministic Translation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-11-22 v3 Machine Learning

Abstract

In this work we challenge the common approach of using a one-to-one mapping ('translation') between the source and target domains in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). Instead, we rely on stochastic translation to capture inherent translation ambiguities. This allows us to (i) train more accurate target networks by generating multiple outputs conditioned on the same source image, leveraging both accurate translation and data augmentation for appearance variability, (ii) impute robust pseudo-labels for the target data by averaging the predictions of a source network on multiple translated versions of a single target image and (iii) train and ensemble diverse networks in the target domain by modulating the degree of stochasticity in the translations. We report improvements over strong recent baselines, leading to state-of-the-art UDA results on two challenging semantic segmentation benchmarks. Our code is available at https://github.com/elchiou/Beyond-deterministic-translation-for-UDA.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.07778,
  title  = {Beyond Deterministic Translation for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation},
  author = {Eleni Chiou and Eleftheria Panagiotaki and Iasonas Kokkinos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07778},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Accepted at BMVC 2022. Code is available at https://github.com/elchiou/Beyond-deterministic-translation-for-UDA

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