Semantics, Distortion, and Style Matter: Towards Source-free UDA for Panoramic Segmentation

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Main Authors: Zheng, Xu, Zhou, Pengyuan, Vasilakos, Athanasios V., Wang, Lin
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Published: 2024
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author Zheng, Xu
Zhou, Pengyuan
Vasilakos, Athanasios V.
Wang, Lin
author_facet Zheng, Xu
Zhou, Pengyuan
Vasilakos, Athanasios V.
Wang, Lin
contents This paper addresses an interesting yet challenging problem -- source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) for pinhole-to-panoramic semantic segmentation -- given only a pinhole image-trained model (i.e., source) and unlabeled panoramic images (i.e., target). Tackling this problem is nontrivial due to the semantic mismatches, style discrepancies, and inevitable distortion of panoramic images. To this end, we propose a novel method that utilizes Tangent Projection (TP) as it has less distortion and meanwhile slits the equirectangular projection (ERP) with a fixed FoV to mimic the pinhole images. Both projections are shown effective in extracting knowledge from the source model. However, the distinct projection discrepancies between source and target domains impede the direct knowledge transfer; thus, we propose a panoramic prototype adaptation module (PPAM) to integrate panoramic prototypes from the extracted knowledge for adaptation. We then impose the loss constraints on both predictions and prototypes and propose a cross-dual attention module (CDAM) at the feature level to better align the spatial and channel characteristics across the domains and projections. Both knowledge extraction and transfer processes are synchronously updated to reach the best performance. Extensive experiments on the synthetic and real-world benchmarks, including outdoor and indoor scenarios, demonstrate that our method achieves significantly better performance than prior SFUDA methods for pinhole-to-panoramic adaptation.
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spellingShingle Semantics, Distortion, and Style Matter: Towards Source-free UDA for Panoramic Segmentation
Zheng, Xu
Zhou, Pengyuan
Vasilakos, Athanasios V.
Wang, Lin
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper addresses an interesting yet challenging problem -- source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) for pinhole-to-panoramic semantic segmentation -- given only a pinhole image-trained model (i.e., source) and unlabeled panoramic images (i.e., target). Tackling this problem is nontrivial due to the semantic mismatches, style discrepancies, and inevitable distortion of panoramic images. To this end, we propose a novel method that utilizes Tangent Projection (TP) as it has less distortion and meanwhile slits the equirectangular projection (ERP) with a fixed FoV to mimic the pinhole images. Both projections are shown effective in extracting knowledge from the source model. However, the distinct projection discrepancies between source and target domains impede the direct knowledge transfer; thus, we propose a panoramic prototype adaptation module (PPAM) to integrate panoramic prototypes from the extracted knowledge for adaptation. We then impose the loss constraints on both predictions and prototypes and propose a cross-dual attention module (CDAM) at the feature level to better align the spatial and channel characteristics across the domains and projections. Both knowledge extraction and transfer processes are synchronously updated to reach the best performance. Extensive experiments on the synthetic and real-world benchmarks, including outdoor and indoor scenarios, demonstrate that our method achieves significantly better performance than prior SFUDA methods for pinhole-to-panoramic adaptation.
title Semantics, Distortion, and Style Matter: Towards Source-free UDA for Panoramic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12505