scholarly journals Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation: A Review

Technologies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Marco Toldo ◽  
Andrea Maracani ◽  
Umberto Michieli ◽  
Pietro Zanuttigh
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation ◽  
Driving Scenario ◽  
Segmentation Models

The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the recent advancements in the Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) of deep networks for semantic segmentation. This task is attracting a wide interest since semantic segmentation models require a huge amount of labeled data and the lack of data fitting specific requirements is the main limitation in the deployment of these techniques. This field has been recently explored and has rapidly grown with a large number of ad-hoc approaches. This motivates us to build a comprehensive overview of the proposed methodologies and to provide a clear categorization. In this paper, we start by introducing the problem, its formulation and the various scenarios that can be considered. Then, we introduce the different levels at which adaptation strategies may be applied: namely, at the input (image) level, at the internal features representation and at the output level. Furthermore, we present a detailed overview of the literature in the field, dividing previous methods based on the following (non mutually exclusive) categories: adversarial learning, generative-based, analysis of the classifier discrepancies, self-teaching, entropy minimization, curriculum learning and multi-task learning. Novel research directions are also briefly introduced to give a hint of interesting open problems in the field. Finally, a comparison of the performance of the various methods in the widely used autonomous driving scenario is presented.

scholarly journals Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Quick Shift

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanxing Zhang ◽  
Zhenhuan Ma ◽  
Gang Zhang ◽  
Tao Lei ◽  
Rui Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Image Segmentation ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Feature Representation ◽  
Segmentation Algorithm ◽  
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Semantic Image Segmentation

Semantic image segmentation, as one of the most popular tasks in computer vision, has been widely used in autonomous driving, robotics and other fields. Currently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) are driving major advances in semantic segmentation due to their powerful feature representation. However, DCNNs extract high-level feature representations by strided convolution, which makes it impossible to segment foreground objects precisely, especially when locating object boundaries. This paper presents a novel semantic segmentation algorithm with DeepLab v3+ and super-pixel segmentation algorithm-quick shift. DeepLab v3+ is employed to generate a class-indexed score map for the input image. Quick shift is applied to segment the input image into superpixels. Outputs of them are then fed into a class voting module to refine the semantic segmentation results. Extensive experiments on proposed semantic image segmentation are performed over PASCAL VOC 2012 dataset, and results that the proposed method can provide a more efficient solution.

Enhanced Feature Alignment for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation of Semantic Segmentation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Tao Chen ◽  
Shuihua Wang ◽  
Qiong Wang ◽  
Zheng Zhang ◽  
Guosen Xie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation ◽  
Feature Alignment

scholarly journals An Adversarial Perturbation Oriented Domain Adaptation Approach for Semantic Segmentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (07) ◽  
pp. 12613-12620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihan Yang ◽  
Ruijia Xu ◽  
Ruiyu Li ◽  
Xiaojuan Qi ◽  
Xiaoyong Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Marginal Distribution ◽  
Domain Adaptation ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
The State ◽  
Object Size ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Feature Representations ◽  
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

We focus on Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) for the task of semantic segmentation. Recently, adversarial alignment has been widely adopted to match the marginal distribution of feature representations across two domains globally. However, this strategy fails in adapting the representations of the tail classes or small objects for semantic segmentation since the alignment objective is dominated by head categories or large objects. In contrast to adversarial alignment, we propose to explicitly train a domain-invariant classifier by generating and defensing against pointwise feature space adversarial perturbations. Specifically, we firstly perturb the intermediate feature maps with several attack objectives (i.e., discriminator and classifier) on each individual position for both domains, and then the classifier is trained to be invariant to the perturbations. By perturbing each position individually, our model treats each location evenly regardless of the category or object size and thus circumvents the aforementioned issue. Moreover, the domain gap in feature space is reduced by extrapolating source and target perturbed features towards each other with attack on the domain discriminator. Our approach achieves the state-of-the-art performance on two challenging domain adaptation tasks for semantic segmentation: GTA5 → Cityscapes and SYNTHIA → Cityscapes.

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