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Adversarial Alignment for Source Free Object Detection

11 Jan 2023arXiv:2301.04265archive 2025-07-28

Qiaosong Chu, Shuyan Li, Guangyi Chen, Kai Li, Xiu Li

Source-free object detection (SFOD) aims to transfer a detector pre-trained on a label-rich source domain to an unlabeled target domain without seeing source data. While most existing SFOD methods generate pseudo labels via a source-pretrained model to guide training, these pseudo labels usually contain high noises due to heavy domain discrepancy. In order to obtain better pseudo supervisions, we divide the target domain into source-similar and source-dissimilar parts and align them in the feature space by adversarial learning. Specifically, we design a detection variance-based criterion to divide the target domain. This criterion is motivated by a finding that larger detection variances denote higher recall and larger similarity to the source domain. Then we incorporate an adversarial module into a mean teacher framework to drive the feature spaces of these two subsets indistinguishable. Extensive experiments on multiple cross-domain object detection datasets demonstrate that our proposed method consistently outperforms the compared SFOD methods.

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ObjectObject DetectionSource Free Object Detectionobject-detection

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Source Free Object Detection Cityscapes to Foggy Cityscapes AASFOD AP50 35.4 #10 of 13 Archive leaderboard report

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