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Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain by addressing domain shifts. Most UDA approaches emphasize transfer ability, but often overlook robustness against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Fuxiang Huang , Xiaowei Fu , Shiyu Ye , Lina Ma , Wen Li , Xinbo Gao , David Zhang , Lei Zhang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) enables cross-domain learning without target domain labels by transferring knowledge from a labeled source domain whose distribution differs from that of the target. However, UDA is not always successful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Akshay Mehra , Bhavya Kailkhura , Pin-Yu Chen , Jihun Hamm

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is widely used to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain with different data distribution. While extensive studies attested that deep learning models are vulnerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Jiajin Zhang , Hanqing Chao , Pingkun Yan

Domain shift remains a key challenge in deploying machine learning models to the real world. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to address this by minimising domain discrepancy during training, but the discrepancy estimates suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Andrea Napoli , Paul White

Distribution shifts are all too common in real-world applications of machine learning. Domain adaptation (DA) aims to address this by providing various frameworks for adapting models to the deployment data without using labels. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Linus Ericsson , Da Li , Timothy M. Hospedales

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) can improve a perception model's generalization to an unlabeled target domain starting from a labeled source domain. UDA using Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) with synthetic source data can achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Brunó B. Englert , Tommie Kerssies , Gijs Dubbelman

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) plays a crucial role in object detection when adapting a source-trained detector to a target domain without annotated data. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective four-step UDA approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Mohamed L. Mekhalfi , Davide Boscaini , Fabio Poiesi

Extensive Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) studies have shown great success in practice by learning transferable representations across a labeled source domain and an unlabeled target domain with deep models. However, previous works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Muhammad Awais , Fengwei Zhou , Hang Xu , Lanqing Hong , Ping Luo , Sung-Ho Bae , Zhenguo Li

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is to make predictions for unlabeled data on a target domain, given labeled data on a source domain whose distribution shifts from the target one. Mainstream UDA methods learn aligned features between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Hui Tang , Ke Chen , Kui Jia

In this work, we take a deeper look into the diverse factors that influence the efficacy of modern unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods using a large-scale, controlled empirical study. To facilitate our analysis, we first develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tarun Kalluri , Sreyas Ravichandran , Manmohan Chandraker

Point cloud classification is a popular task in 3D vision. However, previous works, usually assume that point clouds at test time are obtained with the same procedure or sensor as those at training time. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Adriano Cardace , Riccardo Spezialetti , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) is a popular technique that aims to reduce the domain shift between two data distributions. It was successfully applied in computer vision and natural language processing. In the current work, we explore…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Răzvan-Alexandru Smădu , Sebastian-Vasile Echim , Dumitru-Clementin Cercel , Iuliana Marin , Florin Pop

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) transfers knowledge from a label-rich source domain to a different but related fully-unlabeled target domain. To address the problem of domain shift, more and more UDA methods adopt pseudo labels of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jie Wang , Xiao-Lei Zhang

Learning models on one labeled dataset that generalize well on another domain is a difficult task, as several shifts might happen between the data domains. This is notably the case for lidar data, for which models can exhibit large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Björn Michele , Alexandre Boulch , Gilles Puy , Tuan-Hung Vu , Renaud Marlet , Nicolas Courty

Current state-of-the-art object detectors can have significant performance drop when deployed in the wild due to domain gaps with training data. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) is a promising approach to adapt models for new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Fuxun Yu , Di Wang , Yinpeng Chen , Nikolaos Karianakis , Tong Shen , Pei Yu , Dimitrios Lymberopoulos , Sidi Lu , Weisong Shi , Xiang Chen

Class imbalance naturally exists when train and test models in different domains. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) augments model performance with only accessible annotations from the source domain and unlabeled data from the target…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Yuexin Wu , Xiaolei Huang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to improve model performance on an unlabeled target domain using a related, labeled source domain. A common approach aligns source and target feature distributions by minimizing a distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Anneke von Seeger , Dongmian Zou , Gilad Lerman

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to learn transferable knowledge from a labeled source domain and adapts a trained model to an unlabeled target domain. To bridge the gap between source and target domains, one prevailing strategy is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xu Ma , Junkun Yuan , Yen-wei Chen , Ruofeng Tong , Lanfen Lin

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims at adapting the model trained on a labeled source-domain dataset to an unlabeled target-domain dataset. The task of UDA on open-set person re-identification (re-ID) is even more challenging as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yixiao Ge , Feng Zhu , Dapeng Chen , Rui Zhao , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims at reducing the domain gap between training and testing data and is, in most cases, carried out in offline manner. However, domain changes may occur continuously and unpredictably during deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Theodoros Panagiotakopoulos , Pier Luigi Dovesi , Linus Härenstam-Nielsen , Matteo Poggi