LiDAR-UDA: Self-ensembling Through Time for Unsupervised LiDAR Domain Adaptation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13523v1
• Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 02:02:00 GMT
• Title: LiDAR-UDA: Self-ensembling Through Time for Unsupervised LiDAR Domain Adaptation
• Authors: Amirreza Shaban, JoonHo Lee, Sanghun Jung, Xiangyun Meng, Byron Boots
• Abstract summary: We introduce LiDAR-UDA, a novel two-stage self-training-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) method for LiDAR segmentation. We propose two techniques to reduce sensor discrepancy and improve pseudo label quality. We evaluate our method on several public LiDAR datasets and show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by more than $3.9%$ mIoU on average.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce LiDAR-UDA, a novel two-stage self-training-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) method for LiDAR segmentation. Existing self-training methods use a model trained on labeled source data to generate pseudo labels for target data and refine the predictions via fine-tuning the network on the pseudo labels. These methods suffer from domain shifts caused by different LiDAR sensor configurations in the source and target domains. We propose two techniques to reduce sensor discrepancy and improve pseudo label quality: 1) LiDAR beam subsampling, which simulates different LiDAR scanning patterns by randomly dropping beams; 2) cross-frame ensembling, which exploits temporal consistency of consecutive frames to generate more reliable pseudo labels. Our method is simple, generalizable, and does not incur any extra inference cost. We evaluate our method on several public LiDAR datasets and show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by more than $3.9\%$ mIoU on average for all scenarios. Code will be available at https://github.com/JHLee0513/LiDARUDA.

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