Self-Bootstrapping for Versatile Test-Time Adaptation

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Autori principali: Niu, Shuaicheng, Chen, Guohao, Zhao, Peilin, Wang, Tianyi, Wu, Pengcheng, Shen, Zhiqi
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author Niu, Shuaicheng
Chen, Guohao
Zhao, Peilin
Wang, Tianyi
Wu, Pengcheng
Shen, Zhiqi
author_facet Niu, Shuaicheng
Chen, Guohao
Zhao, Peilin
Wang, Tianyi
Wu, Pengcheng
Shen, Zhiqi
contents In this paper, we seek to develop a versatile test-time adaptation (TTA) objective for a variety of tasks - classification and regression across image-, object-, and pixel-level predictions. We achieve this through a self-bootstrapping scheme that optimizes prediction consistency between the test image (as target) and its deteriorated view. The key challenge lies in devising effective augmentations/deteriorations that: i) preserve the image's geometric information, e.g., object sizes and locations, which is crucial for TTA on object/pixel-level tasks, and ii) provide sufficient learning signals for TTA. To this end, we analyze how common distribution shifts affect the image's information power across spatial frequencies in the Fourier domain, and reveal that low-frequency components carry high power and masking these components supplies more learning signals, while masking high-frequency components can not. In light of this, we randomly mask the low-frequency amplitude of an image in its Fourier domain for augmentation. Meanwhile, we also augment the image with noise injection to compensate for missing learning signals at high frequencies, by enhancing the information power there. Experiments show that, either independently or as a plug-and-play module, our method achieves superior results across classification, segmentation, and 3D monocular detection tasks with both transformer and CNN models.
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Niu, Shuaicheng
Chen, Guohao
Zhao, Peilin
Wang, Tianyi
Wu, Pengcheng
Shen, Zhiqi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In this paper, we seek to develop a versatile test-time adaptation (TTA) objective for a variety of tasks - classification and regression across image-, object-, and pixel-level predictions. We achieve this through a self-bootstrapping scheme that optimizes prediction consistency between the test image (as target) and its deteriorated view. The key challenge lies in devising effective augmentations/deteriorations that: i) preserve the image's geometric information, e.g., object sizes and locations, which is crucial for TTA on object/pixel-level tasks, and ii) provide sufficient learning signals for TTA. To this end, we analyze how common distribution shifts affect the image's information power across spatial frequencies in the Fourier domain, and reveal that low-frequency components carry high power and masking these components supplies more learning signals, while masking high-frequency components can not. In light of this, we randomly mask the low-frequency amplitude of an image in its Fourier domain for augmentation. Meanwhile, we also augment the image with noise injection to compensate for missing learning signals at high frequencies, by enhancing the information power there. Experiments show that, either independently or as a plug-and-play module, our method achieves superior results across classification, segmentation, and 3D monocular detection tasks with both transformer and CNN models.
title Self-Bootstrapping for Versatile Test-Time Adaptation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08010