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Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in clinical workflows, but domain shift often leads to performance degradation when models are applied to unseen clinical domains. This challenge arises due to variations in imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yingkai Wang , Yaoyao Zhu , Xiuding Cai , Yuhao Xiao , Haotian Wu , Yu Yao

Mixup~\cite{zhang2017mixup} is a recently proposed method for training deep neural networks where additional samples are generated during training by convexly combining random pairs of images and their associated labels. While simple to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-08 Sunil Thulasidasan , Gopinath Chennupati , Jeff Bilmes , Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Sarah Michalak

We tackle the challenging problem of single-source domain generalization (DG) for medical image segmentation, where we train a network on one domain (e.g., CT) and directly apply it to a different domain (e.g., MR) without adapting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Franz Thaler , Martin Urschler , Mateusz Kozinski , Matthias AF Gsell , Gernot Plank , Darko Stern

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) aims to bridge source and target domain distributions, with a small number of target labels available, achieving better classification performance than unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Jichang Li , Guanbin Li , Yizhou Yu

Semantic segmentation provides pixel-level scene understanding essential for autonomous driving and fine-grained perception tasks. However, training segmentation models requires costly, labor-intensive annotations on real-world datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yerin Cheon , Aruna Balasubramanian , Francois Rameau

LiDAR semantic segmentation provides 3D semantic information about the environment, an essential cue for intelligent systems during their decision making processes. Deep neural networks are achieving state-of-the-art results on large public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Inigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Domain generalization (DG) focuses on transferring domain-invariant knowledge from multiple source domains (available at train time) to an, a priori, unseen target domain(s). This requires a class to be expressed in multiple domains for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Kimathi Kaai , Saad Hossain , Sirisha Rambhatla

Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) has attracted considerable attention for its effectiveness in improving generalization in deep neural network training by explicitly minimizing sharpness in the loss landscape. Its success, however, relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Sungbin Shin , Dongyeop Lee , Maksym Andriushchenko , Namhoon Lee

Domain generalization (DG), aiming at models able to work on multiple unseen domains, is a must-have characteristic of general artificial intelligence. DG based on single source domain training data is more challenging due to the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Qingyue Yang , Hongjing Niu , Pengfei Xia , Wei Zhang , Bin Li

The challenge of overfitting, in which the model memorizes the training data and fails to generalize to test data, has become increasingly significant in the training of large neural networks. To tackle this challenge, Sharpness-Aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Zixiang Chen , Junkai Zhang , Yiwen Kou , Xiangning Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Quanquan Gu

Unsupervised domain adaptation studies the problem of utilizing a relevant source domain with abundant labels to build predictive modeling for an unannotated target domain. Recent work observe that the popular adversarial approach of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-06 Shen Yan , Huan Song , Nanxiang Li , Lincan Zou , Liu Ren

State-of-the-art stereo matching networks have difficulties in generalizing to new unseen environments due to significant domain differences, such as color, illumination, contrast, and texture. In this paper, we aim at designing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Feihu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Ruigang Yang , Victor Prisacariu , Benjamin Wah , Philip Torr

Deep neural networks for semantic segmentation always require a large number of samples with pixel-level labels, which becomes the major difficulty in their real-world applications. To reduce the labeling cost, unsupervised domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Minghao Chen , Hongyang Xue , Deng Cai

Deep learning has shown remarkable progress in medical image semantic segmentation, yet its success heavily depends on large-scale expert annotations and consistent data distributions. In practice, annotations are scarce, and images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ba-Thinh Lam , Thanh-Huy Nguyen , Hoang-Thien Nguyen , Quang-Khai Bui-Tran , Nguyen Lan Vi Vu , Phat K. Huynh , Ulas Bagci , Min Xu

The paper investigates the fundamental convergence properties of Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM), a recently proposed gradient-based optimization method [Foret et al., 2021] that significantly improves the generalization of deep neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Pham Duy Khanh , Hoang-Chau Luong , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dat Ba Tran

Semantic segmentation algorithms require access to well-annotated datasets captured under diverse illumination conditions to ensure consistent performance. However, poor visibility conditions at varying illumination conditions result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Pranjay Shyam , Antyanta Bangunharcana , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

Visual recognition systems are meant to work in the real world. For this to happen, they must work robustly in any visual domain, and not only on the data used during training. Within this context, a very realistic scenario deals with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Antonio D'Innocente , Barbara Caputo

Deep learning approaches for semantic segmentation rely primarily on supervised learning approaches and require substantial efforts in producing pixel-level annotations. Further, such approaches may perform poorly when applied to unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Ying Chen , Xu Ouyang , Kaiyue Zhu , Gady Agam

Neural networks do not generalize well to unseen data with domain shifts -- a longstanding problem in machine learning and AI. To overcome the problem, we propose MixStyle, a simple plug-and-play, parameter-free module that can improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Kaiyang Zhou , Yongxin Yang , Yu Qiao , Tao Xiang

Though convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable ability in learning discriminative features, they often generalize poorly to unseen domains. Domain generalization aims to address this problem by learning from a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Kaiyang Zhou , Yongxin Yang , Yu Qiao , Tao Xiang