Bag of Tricks for Fully Test-Time Adaptation

Saypraseuth Mounsaveng, Florent Chiaroni, Malik Boudiaf, Marco Pedersoli, Ismail Ben Ayed; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024, pp. 1936-1945

Fully Test-Time Adaptation (TTA), which aims at adapting models to data drifts, has recently attracted wide interest. Numerous tricks and techniques have been proposed to ensure robust learning on arbitrary streams of unlabeled data. However, assessing the true impact of each individual technique and obtaining a fair comparison still constitutes a significant challenge. To help consolidate the community's knowledge, we present a categorization of selected orthogonal TTA techniques, including small batch normalization, stream rebalancing, reliable sample selection, and network confidence calibration. We meticulously dissect the effect of each approach on different scenarios of interest. Through our analysis, we shed light on trade-offs induced by those techniques between accuracy, the computational power required, and model complexity. We also uncover the synergy that arises when combining techniques and are able to establish new state-of-the-art results.