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Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) is essential for enabling semantic segmentation in new domains without requiring costly pixel-wise annotations. State-of-the-art (SOTA) UDA methods primarily use self-training with architecturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Beomseok Kang , Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Abhinav Rajvanshi , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera

In object detection, unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. However, UDA's reliance on labeled source data restricts its adaptability in privacy-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Trinh Le Ba Khanh , Huy-Hung Nguyen , Long Hoang Pham , Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran , Jae Wook Jeon

Recent state-of-the-art source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) methods have focused on learning meaningful cluster structures in the feature space, which have succeeded in adapting the knowledge from source domain to unlabeled target domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Li Yi , Gezheng Xu , Pengcheng Xu , Jiaqi Li , Ruizhi Pu , Charles Ling , A. Ian McLeod , Boyu Wang

We investigate a practical domain adaptation task, called source-free domain adaptation (SFUDA), where the source-pretrained model is adapted to the target domain without access to the source data. Existing techniques mainly leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ziyi Zhang , Weikai Chen , Hui Cheng , Zhen Li , Siyuan Li , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

Open-set domain adaptation (OSDA) has gained considerable attention in many visual recognition tasks. However, most existing OSDA approaches are limited due to three main reasons, including: (1) the lack of essential theoretical analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Yadan Luo , Zijian Wang , Zhuoxiao Chen , Zi Huang , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to leverage the knowledge learned from a labeled source dataset to solve similar tasks in a new unlabeled domain. Prior UDA methods typically require to access the source data when learning to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Jian Liang , Dapeng Hu , Jiashi Feng

Domain Adaptation (DA) is crucial for robust deployment of medical image segmentation models when applied to new clinical centers with significant domain shifts. Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) is appealing as it can deal with privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xinya Liu , Jianghao Wu , Tao Lu , Shaoting Zhang , Guotai Wang

This paper addresses two vital challenges in Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) with a focus on harnessing the power of Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models. Firstly, UDA has primarily relied on ImageNet pre-trained models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Wenlve Zhou , Zhiheng Zhou

Robotic Perception in diverse domains such as low-light scenarios, where new modalities like thermal imaging and specialized night-vision sensors are increasingly employed, remains a challenge. Largely, this is due to the limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Anirudha Ramesh , Anurag Ghosh , Christoph Mertz , Jeff Schneider

Domain adaptation (DA) addresses the challenge of transferring knowledge from a source domain to a target domain where image data distributions may differ. Existing DA methods often require access to source domain data, adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Debopom Sutradhar , Md. Abdur Rahman , Mohaimenul Azam Khan Raiaan , Reem E. Mohamed , Sami Azam

It is desirable to transfer the knowledge stored in a well-trained source model onto non-annotated target domain in the absence of source data. However, state-of-the-art methods for source free domain adaptation (SFDA) are subject to strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xin Luo , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Chen Li , Yulin He , Xiaogang Jia

Unsupervised domain adaptation methods have been widely explored to bridge domain gaps. However, in real-world remote-sensing scenarios, privacy and transmission constraints often preclude access to source domain data, which limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jianhong Han , Yupei Wang , Liang Chen

Domain Adaptation (DA) is important for deep learning-based medical image segmentation models to deal with testing images from a new target domain. As the source-domain data are usually unavailable when a trained model is deployed at a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jianghao Wu , Guotai Wang , Ran Gu , Tao Lu , Yinan Chen , Wentao Zhu , Tom Vercauteren , Sébastien Ourselin , Shaoting Zhang

For video models to be transferred and applied seamlessly across video tasks in varied environments, Video Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (VUDA) has been introduced to improve the robustness and transferability of video models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yuecong Xu , Jianfei Yang , Yunjiao Zhou , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li

Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) aims to solve the domain adaptation problem by transferring the knowledge learned from a pre-trained source model to an unseen target domain. Most existing methods assign pseudo-labels to the target data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xinyu Guan , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou

Vision-language object detectors (VLODs) such as YOLO-World and Grounding DINO exhibit strong zero-shot generalization, but their performance degrades under distribution shift. Test-time adaptation (TTA) offers a practical way to adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Atif Belal , Heitor R. Medeiros , Marco Pedersoli , Eric Granger

Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to transfer knowledge from a related, label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain, thereby circumventing the high costs associated with manual annotation. Recently, there has been growing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Jian Liang , Lijun Sheng , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

Conventional multi-source domain few-shot adaptation (MFDA) faces the challenge of further reducing the load on edge-side devices in low-resource scenarios. Considering the native language-supervised advantage of CLIP and the plug-and-play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kuanghong Liu , Jin Wang , Kangjian He , Dan Xu , Xuejie Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) often perform poorly in the presence of domain shift and category shift. How to upcycle DNNs and adapt them to the target task remains an important open problem. Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA), especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sanqing Qu , Tianpei Zou , Florian Roehrbein , Cewu Lu , Guang Chen , Dacheng Tao , Changjun Jiang

General object detection (OD) struggles to detect objects in the target domain that differ from the training distribution. To address this, recent studies demonstrate that training from multiple source domains and explicitly processing them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Sangin Lee , Seokjun Kwon , Jeongmin Shin , Namil Kim , Yukyung Choi