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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

Domain adaptation has become a widely adopted approach in machine learning due to the high costs associated with labeling data. It is typically applied when access to a labeled source domain is available. However, in real-world scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Amirfarhad Farhadi , Naser Mozayani , Azadeh Zamanifar

Due to privacy, storage, and other constraints, there is a growing need for unsupervised domain adaptation techniques in machine learning that do not require access to the data used to train a collection of source models. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Maohao Shen , Yuheng Bu , Gregory Wornell

Domain adaptation assumes that samples from source and target domains are freely accessible during a training phase. However, such an assumption is rarely plausible in the real-world and possibly causes data-privacy issues, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Youngeun Kim , Donghyeon Cho , Kyeongtak Han , Priyadarshini Panda , Sungeun Hong

Existing Source-free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (SUDA) approaches inherently exhibit catastrophic forgetting. Typically, models trained on a labeled source domain and adapted to unlabeled target data improve performance on the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Waqar Ahmed , Pietro Morerio , Vittorio Murino

Given the rapidly changing machine learning environments and expensive data labeling, semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) is imperative when the labeled data from the source domain is statistically different from the partially labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Madhureeta Das , Xianhao Chen , Xiaoyong Yuan , Lan Zhang

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

Unsupervised domain adaptation (uDA) models focus on pairwise adaptation settings where there is a single, labeled, source and a single target domain. However, in many real-world settings one seeks to adapt to multiple, but somewhat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Behnam Gholami , Pritish Sahu , Ognjen Rudovic , Konstantinos Bousmalis , Vladimir Pavlovic

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) seeks to adapt a source model, which is pre-trained on a supervised source domain, for a target domain, with only access to unlabeled target training data. Relying on pseudo labeling and/or auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Song Tang , Yunxiang Bai , Wenxin Su , Mao Ye , Jianwei Zhang , Xiatian Zhu

Domain adaptation aims to alleviate the domain shift when transferring the knowledge learned from the source domain to the target domain. Due to privacy issues, source-free domain adaptation (SFDA), where source data is unavailable during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jiamei Liu , Han Sun , Yizhen Jia , Jie Qin , Huiyu Zhou , Ningzhong Liu

Domain Adaptation (DA) facilitates knowledge transfer from a source domain to a related target domain. This paper investigates a practical DA paradigm, namely Source data-Free Active Domain Adaptation (SFADA), where source data becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Mengyao Lyu , Tianxiang Hao , Xinhao Xu , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

There is a strong incentive to develop versatile learning techniques that can transfer the knowledge of class-separability from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain in the presence of a domain-shift. Existing domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Naveen Venkat , Rahul M , R. Venkatesh Babu

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) tackles the problem of adapting a pre-trained source model to an unlabeled target domain without accessing any source data, which is quite suitable for the field of data security. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shanshan Wang , Ziying Feng , Xiaozheng Shen , Xun Yang , Pichao Wang , Zhenwei He , Xingyi Zhang

Standard Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target but usually requires simultaneous access to both source and target data. Moreover, UDA approaches commonly assume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Mattia Litrico , Davide Talon , Sebastiano Battiato , Alessio Del Bue , Mario Valerio Giuffrida , Pietro Morerio

This paper introduces a novel approach to leverage the generalizability of Diffusion Models for Source-Free Domain Adaptation (DM-SFDA). Our proposed DMSFDA method involves fine-tuning a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Shivang Chopra , Suraj Kothawade , Houda Aynaou , Aman Chadha

Document Layout Analysis (DLA) is a fundamental task in document understanding. However, existing DLA and adaptation methods often require access to large-scale source data and target labels. This requirements severely limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Sebastian Tewes , Yufan Chen , Omar Moured , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Domain adaptive object detection aims to leverage the knowledge learned from a labeled source domain to improve the performance on an unlabeled target domain. Prior works typically require the access to the source domain data for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Han Sun , Rui Gong , Konrad Schindler , Luc Van Gool

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

Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) aims to address the challenge of adapting to a target domain without accessing the source domain directly. However, due to the inaccessibility of source domain data, deterministic invariable features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Renrong Shao , Wei Zhang , Kangyang Luo , Qin Li , and Jun Wang

The increasing adaptation of vision models across domains, such as satellite imagery and medical scans, has raised an emerging privacy risk: models may inadvertently retain and leak sensitive source-domain specific information in the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Arnav Devalapally , Poornima Jain , Kartik Srinivas , Vineeth N. Balasubramanian