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This paper explores the Class-Incremental Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (CI-SFUDA) problem, where the unlabeled target data come incrementally without access to labeled source instances. This problem poses two challenges, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Peihua Deng , Jiehua Zhang , Xichun Sheng , Chenggang Yan , Yaoqi Sun , Ying Fu , Liang Li

Unsupervised domain adaptation (DA) has gained substantial interest in semantic segmentation. However, almost all prior arts assume concurrent access to both labeled source and unlabeled target, making them unsuitable for scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Akshay Kulkarni , Amit Singh , Varun Jampani , R. Venkatesh Babu

Domain adaptation typically requires to access source domain data to utilize their distribution information for domain alignment with the target data. However, in many real-world scenarios, the source data may not be accessible during the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-22 Cheng Chen , Quande Liu , Yueming Jin , Qi Dou , Pheng-Ann Heng

Assuming that neither source data nor source model parameters are accessible, black-box domain adaptation (BBDA) represents a highly practical yet challenging setting, where transferable knowledge is limited to the predictions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhe Zhang , Jing Li , Wanli Xue , Xu Cheng , Jianhua Zhang , Qinghua Hu , Shengyong Chen

In recent years, test-time adaptive object detection has attracted increasing attention due to its unique advantages in online domain adaptation, which aligns more closely with real-world application scenarios. However, existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Yingjie Gao , Yanan Zhang , Zhi Cai , Di Huang

In many practical applications, it is often difficult and expensive to obtain large-scale labeled data to train state-of-the-art deep neural networks. Therefore, transferring the learned knowledge from a separate, labeled source domain to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Sicheng Zhao , Hui Chen , Hu Huang , Pengfei Xu , Guiguang Ding

This work addresses the unsupervised adaptation of an existing object detector to a new target domain. We assume that a large number of unlabeled videos from this domain are readily available. We automatically obtain labels on the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Aruni RoyChowdhury , Prithvijit Chakrabarty , Ashish Singh , SouYoung Jin , Huaizu Jiang , Liangliang Cao , Erik Learned-Miller

Source-free domain-adaptive object detection is an interesting but scarcely addressed topic. It aims at adapting a source-pretrained detector to a distinct target domain without resorting to source data during adaptation. So far, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi , Davide Boscaini , Fabio Poiesi

Zero-shot domain adaptation is a method for adapting a model to a target domain without utilizing target domain image data. To enable adaptation without target images, existing studies utilize CLIP's embedding space and text description to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Ye-Chan Kim , SeungJu Cha , Si-Woo Kim , Taewhan Kim , Dong-Jin Kim

Multi-Source Domain Adaptation (MSDA) aims to mitigate changes in data distribution when transferring knowledge from multiple labeled source domains to an unlabeled target domain. However, existing MSDA techniques assume target domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Zhenbin Wang , Lei Zhang , Lituan Wang , Minjuan Zhu

Most existing studies on unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) assume that each domain's training samples come with domain labels (e.g., painting, photo). Samples from each domain are assumed to follow the same distribution and the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Zhongying Deng , Kaiyang Zhou , Da Li , Junjun He , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

Federated Domain Adaptation (FDA) is a federated learning (FL) approach that improves model performance at the target client by collaborating with source clients while preserving data privacy. FDA faces two primary challenges: domain shifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mrinmay Sen , Ankita Das , Sidhant Nair , C Krishna Mohan

Without access to the source data, source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) transfers knowledge from a source-domain trained model to target domains. Recently, SFDA has gained popularity due to the need to protect the data privacy of the source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Haozhe Feng , Zhaorui Yang , Hesun Chen , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Minfeng Zhu , Wei Chen , Shuicheng Yan

Adversarial discriminative domain adaptation (ADDA) is an efficient framework for unsupervised domain adaptation in image classification, where the source and target domains are assumed to have the same classes, but no labels are available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Aaron Chadha , Yiannis Andreopoulos

In the domain adaptation problem, source data may be unavailable to the target client side due to privacy or intellectual property issues. Source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SF-UDA) aims at adapting a model trained on the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zheang Huai , Xinpeng Ding , Yi Li , Xiaomeng Li

Most previous unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods for question answering(QA) require access to source domain data while fine-tuning the model for the target domain. Source domain data may, however, contain sensitive information and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 M. Yin , B. Wang , Y. Dong , C. Ling

This paper focuses on source-free domain adaptation for object detection in computer vision. This task is challenging and of great practical interest, due to the cost of obtaining annotated data sets for every new domain. Recent research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yan Hao , Florent Forest , Olga Fink

Existing SFDA methods struggle to fully use pre-trained knowledge and often rely on a single model's predictions or handcrafted prompts, limiting robustness under domain shift. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) offer a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Dongjie Chen , Kartik Patwari , Zhengfeng Lai , Xiaoguang Zhu , Sen-ching Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah

Multi-source domain adaptation (MDA) aims to transfer knowledge from multiple source domains to an unlabeled target domain. MDA is a challenging task due to the severe domain shift, which not only exists between target and source but also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Ren Chuan-Xian , Liu Yong-Hui , Zhang Xi-Wen , Huang Ke-Kun

This work introduces the novel task of Source-free Multi-target Domain Adaptation and proposes adaptation framework comprising of \textbf{Co}nsistency with \textbf{N}uclear-Norm Maximization and \textbf{Mix}Up knowledge distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Vikash Kumar , Rohit Lal , Himanshu Patil , Anirban Chakraborty