Leveraging Scale-Invariance and Uncertainity with Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Foggy Scenes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02588v1
• Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 18:29:58 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Scale-Invariance and Uncertainity with Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Foggy Scenes
• Authors: Javed Iqbal, Rehan Hafiz, Mohsen Ali
• Abstract summary: FogAdapt is a novel approach for domain adaptation of semantic segmentation for dense foggy scenes. FogAdapt significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation of foggy images.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents FogAdapt, a novel approach for domain adaptation of semantic segmentation for dense foggy scenes. Although significant research has been directed to reduce the domain shift in semantic segmentation, adaptation to scenes with adverse weather conditions remains an open question. Large variations in the visibility of the scene due to weather conditions, such as fog, smog, and haze, exacerbate the domain shift, thus making unsupervised adaptation in such scenarios challenging. We propose a self-entropy and multi-scale information augmented self-supervised domain adaptation method (FogAdapt) to minimize the domain shift in foggy scenes segmentation. Supported by the empirical evidence that an increase in fog density results in high self-entropy for segmentation probabilities, we introduce a self-entropy based loss function to guide the adaptation method. Furthermore, inferences obtained at different image scales are combined and weighted by the uncertainty to generate scale-invariant pseudo-labels for the target domain. These scale-invariant pseudo-labels are robust to visibility and scale variations. We evaluate the proposed model on real clear-weather scenes to real foggy scenes adaptation and synthetic non-foggy images to real foggy scenes adaptation scenarios. Our experiments demonstrate that FogAdapt significantly outperforms the current state-of-the-art in semantic segmentation of foggy images. Specifically, by considering the standard settings compared to state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods, FogAdapt gains 3.8% on Foggy Zurich, 6.0% on Foggy Driving-dense, and 3.6% on Foggy Driving in mIoU when adapted from Cityscapes to Foggy Zurich.

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