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Prototypical Pseudo Label Denoising and Target Structure Learning for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation

26 Jan 2021CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2101.10979archive 2025-07-28

Pan Zhang, Bo Zhang, Ting Zhang, Dong Chen, Yong Wang, Fang Wen

Self-training is a competitive approach in domain adaptive segmentation, which trains the network with the pseudo labels on the target domain. However inevitably, the pseudo labels are noisy and the target features are dispersed due to the discrepancy between source and target domains. In this paper, we rely on representative prototypes, the feature centroids of classes, to address the two issues for unsupervised domain adaptation. In particular, we take one step further and exploit the feature distances from prototypes that provide richer information than mere prototypes. Specifically, we use it to estimate the likelihood of pseudo labels to facilitate online correction in the course of training. Meanwhile, we align the prototypical assignments based on relative feature distances for two different views of the same target, producing a more compact target feature space. Moreover, we find that distilling the already learned knowledge to a self-supervised pretrained model further boosts the performance. Our method shows tremendous performance advantage over state-of-the-art methods. We will make the code publicly available.

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Domain AdaptationImage-to-Image TranslationPseudo LabelSemantic SegmentationSynthetic-to-Real TranslationUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Domain Adaptation GTA5 to Cityscapes ProDA mIoU 57.5 #21 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Image Translation GTAV-to-Cityscapes Labels ProDA mIoU 57.5 #15 of 22 Archive leaderboard report
Image-to-Image Translation SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes ProDA mIoU (13 classes) 62.0 #11 of 28 Archive leaderboard report
Semantic Segmentation GTAV-to-Cityscapes Labels ProDA mIoU 57.5 #10 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Synthetic-to-Real Translation GTAV-to-Cityscapes Labels ProDA(with knowledge distillation) mIoU 57.5 #24 of 73 Archive leaderboard report
Synthetic-to-Real Translation SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes ProDA(ResNet-101) MIoU (13 classes) 62.0 #16 of 38 Archive leaderboard report
Synthetic-to-Real Translation SYNTHIA-to-Cityscapes ProDA(ResNet-101) MIoU (16 classes) 55.5 #16 of 38 Archive leaderboard report

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1x1 ConvolutionASPPBatch NormalizationDeepLabv3Dilated ConvolutionSpatial Pyramid Pooling

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