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By using unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA), knowledge can be transferred from a label-rich source domain to a target domain that contains relevant information but lacks labels. Many existing UDA algorithms suffer from directly using raw…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Le Luo , Bingrong Xu , Qingyong Zhang , Cheng Lian , Jie Luo

Deep learning models deployed in real-world applications (e.g., medicine) face challenges because source models do not generalize well to domain-shifted target data. Many successful domain adaptation (DA) approaches require full access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Mainak Biswas , Ambedkar Dukkipati , Devarajan Sridharan

Domain adaptation (DA) aims to alleviate the domain shift between source domain and target domain. Most DA methods require access to the source data, but often that is not possible (e.g. due to data privacy or intellectual property). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Luis Herranz , Shangling Jui

Controllable data generation aims to synthesize data by specifying values for target concepts. Achieving this reliably requires modeling the underlying generative factors and their relationships. In real-world scenarios, these factors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Qilong Zhao , Shiyu Wang , Zeeshan Memon , Yang Qiao , Guangji Bai , Bo Pan , Zhaohui Qin , Liang Zhao

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) has increasingly gained interests for its capacity to transfer the knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. However, typical UDA methods require concurrent access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Qinji Yu , Nan Xi , Junsong Yuan , Ziyu Zhou , Kang Dang , Xiaowei Ding

Domain adaptation aims to leverage a label-rich domain (the source domain) to help model learning in a label-scarce domain (the target domain). Most domain adaptation methods require the co-existence of source and target domain samples to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jiayi Tian , Jing Zhang , Wen Li , Dong Xu

For state-of-the-art image understanding, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the standard architecture but their processing diverges substantially from human attentional characteristics. We investigate whether this cognitive gap can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ethan Knights

Domain adaptation aims at training a classifier in one dataset and applying it to a related but not identical dataset. One successfully used framework of domain adaptation is to learn a transformation to match both the distribution of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Xu Zhang , Felix Xinnan Yu , Shih-Fu Chang , Shengjin Wang

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to learn a task classifier that performs well on the unlabeled target domain, by utilizing the labeled source domain. Inspiring results have been acquired by learning domain-invariant deep features via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Hui Tang , Kui Jia

Most visual recognition methods implicitly assume the data distribution remains unchanged from training to testing. However, in practice domain shift often exists, where real-world factors such as lighting and sensor type change between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Yongxin Yang , Timothy Hospedales

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to a different unlabeled target domain. Most existing UDA methods focus on learning domain-invariant feature representation, either from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Tongkun Xu , Weihua Chen , Pichao Wang , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

Recent works in domain adaptation always learn domain invariant features to mitigate the gap between the source and target domains by adversarial methods. The category information are not sufficiently used which causes the learned domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Lihua Zhou , Mao Ye , Xinpeng Li , Ce Zhu , Yiguang Liu , Xue Li

Applying an object detector, which is neither trained nor fine-tuned on data close to the final application, often leads to a substantial performance drop. In order to overcome this problem, it is necessary to consider a shift between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Alexey Abramov , Christopher Bayer , Claudio Heller

We propose an approach to learn image representations that consist of disentangled factors of variation without exploiting any manual labeling or data domain knowledge. A factor of variation corresponds to an image attribute that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Qiyang Hu , Attila Szabó , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

Continuous Domain Adaptation (CDA) effectively bridges significant domain shifts by progressively adapting from the source domain through intermediate domains to the target domain. However, selecting intermediate domains without explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Hanbing Liu , Huaze Tang , Yanru Wu , Yang Li , Xiao-Ping Zhang

Source-free domain adaptation aims to adapt a source-trained model to an unlabeled target domain without access to the source data. It has attracted growing attention in recent years, where existing approaches focus on self-training that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Idit Diamant , Amir Rosenfeld , Idan Achituve , Jacob Goldberger , Arnon Netzer

A good feature representation is the key to image classification. In practice, image classifiers may be applied in scenarios different from what they have been trained on. This so-called domain shift leads to a significant performance drop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Zhize Wu , Changjiang Du , Le Zou , Ming Tan , Tong Xu , Fan Cheng , Fudong Nian , Thomas Weise

Fully Test-Time Adaptation (FTTA) addresses domain shifts without access to source data and training protocols of the pre-trained models. Traditional strategies that align source and target feature distributions are infeasible in FTTA due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ponhvoan Srey , Yaxin Shi , Hangwei Qian , Jing Li , Ivor W. Tsang

The prime challenge in unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) is to mitigate the domain shift between the source and target domains. Prior DA works show that pretext tasks could be used to mitigate this domain shift by learning domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Suvaansh Bhambri , Akshay Kulkarni , Hiran Sarkar , Varun Jampani , R. Venkatesh Babu

In this chapter, we present CORrelation ALignment (CORAL), a simple yet effective method for unsupervised domain adaptation. CORAL minimizes domain shift by aligning the second-order statistics of source and target distributions, without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Baochen Sun , Jiashi Feng , Kate Saenko