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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) can tackle the challenge that convolutional neural network(CNN)-based approaches for semantic segmentation heavily rely on the pixel-level annotated data, which is labor-intensive. However, existing UDA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Yuang Liu , Wei Zhang , Jun Wang

From a service perspective, Multi-Source Domain Adaptation (MSDA) is a promising scenario to adapt a deployed model to a client's dataset. It can provide adaptation without a target label and support the case where a source dataset is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Eunju Yang , Gyusang Cho , Chan-Hyun Youn

When deploying pre-trained video object detectors in real-world scenarios, the domain gap between training and testing data caused by adverse image conditions often leads to performance degradation. Addressing this issue becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Xingguang Zhang , Chih-Hsien Chou

Source-free active domain adaptation (SFADA) enhances knowledge transfer from a source model to an unlabeled target domain using limited manual labels selected via active learning. While recent domain adaptation studies have introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xi Chen , Hongxun Yao , Zhaopan Xu , Kui Jiang

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) is an effective approach to tackle the issue of domain shift. Specifically, UDA methods try to align the source and target representations to improve the generalization on the target domain. Further, UDA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Vibashan VS , Poojan Oza , Vishal M. Patel

Video-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (VUDA) methods improve the robustness of video models, enabling them to be applied to action recognition tasks across different environments. However, these methods require constant access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Haozhi Cao , Keyu Wu , Wu Min , Zhenghua Chen

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) enables domain adaptation for semantic segmentation of Remote Sensing Images (RSIs) using only a well-trained source model and unlabeled target domain data. However, the lack of ground-truth labels in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Bin Wang , Fei Deng , Zeyu Chen , Zhicheng Yu , Yiguang Liu

Mobile robots rely on object detectors for perception and object localization in indoor environments. However, standard closed-set methods struggle to handle the diverse objects and dynamic conditions encountered in real homes and labs.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiangyu Shi , Yanyuan Qiao , Lingqiao Liu , Feras Dayoub

A typical multi-source domain adaptation (MSDA) approach aims to transfer knowledge learned from a set of labeled source domains, to an unlabeled target domain. Nevertheless, prior works strictly assume that each source domain shares the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Zixin Wang , Yadan Luo , Peng-Fei Zhang , Sen Wang , Zi Huang

3D object detectors based only on LiDAR point clouds hold the state-of-the-art on modern street-view benchmarks. However, LiDAR-based detectors poorly generalize across domains due to domain shift. In the case of LiDAR, in fact, domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Cristiano Saltori , Stéphane Lathuiliére , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci , Fabio Galasso

Domain shift occurs when training (source) and test (target) data diverge in their distribution. Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) addresses this domain shift problem, aiming to adopt a trained model on the source domain to the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Hyeonwoo Cho , Chanmin Park , Dong-Hee Kim , Jinyoung Kim , Won Hwa Kim

Given the emergence of deep learning, digital pathology has gained popularity for cancer diagnosis based on histology images. Deep weakly supervised object localization (WSOL) models can be trained to classify histology images according to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexis Guichemerre , Soufiane Belharbi , Tsiry Mayet , Shakeeb Murtaza , Pourya Shamsolmoali , Luke McCaffrey , Eric Granger

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

We address the source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) problem, where only the source model is available during adaptation to the target domain. We consider two settings: the offline setting where all target data can be visited multiple times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Joost van de Weijer , Luis Herranz , Shangling Jui

Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) aims to adapt a classifier to an unlabelled target data set by only using a pre-trained source model. However, the absence of the source data and the domain shift makes the predictions on the target data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Subhankar Roy , Martin Trapp , Andrea Pilzer , Juho Kannala , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci , Arno Solin

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

In this work, we introduce a new concept, named source-free open compound domain adaptation (SF-OCDA), and study it in semantic segmentation. SF-OCDA is more challenging than the traditional domain adaptation but it is more practical. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yuyang Zhao , Zhun Zhong , Zhiming Luo , Gim Hee Lee , Nicu Sebe

Conventional unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods need to access both labeled source samples and unlabeled target samples simultaneously to train the model. While in some scenarios, the source samples are not available for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Yuntao Du , Haiyang Yang , Mingcai Chen , Juan Jiang , Hongtao Luo , Chongjun Wang

Effort in releasing large-scale datasets may be compromised by privacy and intellectual property considerations. A feasible alternative is to release pre-trained models instead. While these models are strong on their original task (source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yunzhong Hou , Liang Zheng

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