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Context-Aware Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation

9 Mar 2020arXiv:2003.04010archive 2025-07-28

Jinyu Yang, Weizhi An, Chaochao Yan, Peilin Zhao, Junzhou Huang

In this paper, we consider the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation in the semantic segmentation. There are two primary issues in this field, i.e., what and how to transfer domain knowledge across two domains. Existing methods mainly focus on adapting domain-invariant features (what to transfer) through adversarial learning (how to transfer). Context dependency is essential for semantic segmentation, however, its transferability is still not well understood. Furthermore, how to transfer contextual information across two domains remains unexplored. Motivated by this, we propose a cross-attention mechanism based on self-attention to capture context dependencies between two domains and adapt transferable context. To achieve this goal, we design two cross-domain attention modules to adapt context dependencies from both spatial and channel views. Specifically, the spatial attention module captures local feature dependencies between each position in the source and target image. The channel attention module models semantic dependencies between each pair of cross-domain channel maps. To adapt context dependencies, we further selectively aggregate the context information from two domains. The superiority of our method over existing state-of-the-art methods is empirically proved on "GTA5 to Cityscapes" and "SYNTHIA to Cityscapes".

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Domain AdaptationSemantic SegmentationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

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Domain Adaptation SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes CD-AM (VGG-16) mIoU 40.8 #29 of 33 Archive leaderboard report

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Average PoolingConcatenated Skip ConnectionConvolutionDense ConnectionsMax PoolingReLUSigmoid ActivationSpatial Attention-Guided Mask

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