Denoise and Align: Towards Source-Free UDA for Robust Panoramic Semantic Segmentation

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Main Authors: Chang, Yaowen, Cao, Zhen, Zheng, Xu, Mi, Xiaoxin, Dong, Zhen
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author Chang, Yaowen
Cao, Zhen
Zheng, Xu
Mi, Xiaoxin
Dong, Zhen
author_facet Chang, Yaowen
Cao, Zhen
Zheng, Xu
Mi, Xiaoxin
Dong, Zhen
contents Panoramic semantic segmentation is pivotal for comprehensive 360° scene understanding in critical applications like autonomous driving and virtual reality. However, progress in this domain is constrained by two key challenges: the severe geometric distortions inherent in panoramic projections and the prohibitive cost of dense annotation. While Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) from label-rich pinhole-camera datasets offers a viable alternative, many real-world tasks impose a stricter source-free (SFUDA) constraint where source data is inaccessible for privacy or proprietary reasons. This constraint significantly amplifies the core problems of domain shift, leading to unreliable pseudo-labels and dramatic performance degradation, particularly for minority classes. To overcome these limitations, we propose the DAPASS framework. DAPASS introduces two synergistic modules to robustly transfer knowledge without source data. First, our Panoramic Confidence-Guided Denoising (PCGD) module generates high-fidelity, class-balanced pseudo-labels by enforcing perturbation consistency and incorporating neighborhood-level confidence to filter noise. Second, a Contextual Resolution Adversarial Module (CRAM) explicitly addresses scale variance and distortion by adversarially aligning fine-grained details from high-resolution crops with global semantics from low-resolution contexts. DAPASS achieves state-of-the-art performances on outdoor (Cityscapes-to-DensePASS) and indoor (Stanford2D3D) benchmarks, yielding 55.04% (+2.05%) and 70.38% (+1.54%) mIoU, respectively.
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Chang, Yaowen
Cao, Zhen
Zheng, Xu
Mi, Xiaoxin
Dong, Zhen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Panoramic semantic segmentation is pivotal for comprehensive 360° scene understanding in critical applications like autonomous driving and virtual reality. However, progress in this domain is constrained by two key challenges: the severe geometric distortions inherent in panoramic projections and the prohibitive cost of dense annotation. While Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) from label-rich pinhole-camera datasets offers a viable alternative, many real-world tasks impose a stricter source-free (SFUDA) constraint where source data is inaccessible for privacy or proprietary reasons. This constraint significantly amplifies the core problems of domain shift, leading to unreliable pseudo-labels and dramatic performance degradation, particularly for minority classes. To overcome these limitations, we propose the DAPASS framework. DAPASS introduces two synergistic modules to robustly transfer knowledge without source data. First, our Panoramic Confidence-Guided Denoising (PCGD) module generates high-fidelity, class-balanced pseudo-labels by enforcing perturbation consistency and incorporating neighborhood-level confidence to filter noise. Second, a Contextual Resolution Adversarial Module (CRAM) explicitly addresses scale variance and distortion by adversarially aligning fine-grained details from high-resolution crops with global semantics from low-resolution contexts. DAPASS achieves state-of-the-art performances on outdoor (Cityscapes-to-DensePASS) and indoor (Stanford2D3D) benchmarks, yielding 55.04% (+2.05%) and 70.38% (+1.54%) mIoU, respectively.
title Denoise and Align: Towards Source-Free UDA for Robust Panoramic Semantic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25131