All About Structure: Adapting Structural Information Across Domains for Boosting Semantic Segmentation

Wei-Lun Chang, Hui-Po Wang, Wen-Hsiao Peng, Wei-Chen Chiu; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, pp. 1900-1909

Abstract


In this paper we tackle the problem of unsupervised domain adaptation for the task of semantic segmentation, where we attempt to transfer the knowledge learned upon synthetic datasets with ground-truth labels to real-world images without any annotation. With the hypothesis that the structural content of images is the most informative and decisive factor to semantic segmentation and can be readily shared across domains, we propose a Domain Invariant Structure Extraction (DISE) framework to disentangle images into domain-invariant structure and domain-specific texture representations, which can further realize image-translation across domains and enable label transfer to improve segmentation performance. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of our proposed DISE model and demonstrate its superiority over several state-of-the-art approaches.

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@InProceedings{Chang_2019_CVPR,
author = {Chang, Wei-Lun and Wang, Hui-Po and Peng, Wen-Hsiao and Chiu, Wei-Chen},
title = {All About Structure: Adapting Structural Information Across Domains for Boosting Semantic Segmentation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
month = {June},
year = {2019}
}