XD-MAP: Cross-Modal Domain Adaptation using Semantic Parametric Mapping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14477v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:00:26 GMT
• Title: XD-MAP: Cross-Modal Domain Adaptation using Semantic Parametric Mapping
• Authors: Frank Bieder, Hendrik Königshof, Haohao Hu, Fabian Immel, Yinzhe Shen, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel approach to transferring sensor-specific knowledge from an image dataset to LiDAR.<n>Our method XD-MAP leverages detections from a neural network on camera images to create a semantic parametric map.<n>The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach achieving strong performance on LiDAR data without any manual labeling.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Until open-world foundation models match the performance of specialized approaches, the effectiveness of deep learning models remains heavily dependent on dataset availability. Training data must align not only with the target object categories but also with the sensor characteristics and modalities. To bridge the gap between available datasets and deployment domains, domain adaptation strategies are widely used. In this work, we propose a novel approach to transferring sensor-specific knowledge from an image dataset to LiDAR, an entirely different sensing domain. Our method XD-MAP leverages detections from a neural network on camera images to create a semantic parametric map. The map elements are modeled to produce pseudo labels in the target domain without any manual annotation effort. Unlike previous domain transfer approaches, our method does not require direct overlap between sensors and enables extending the angular perception range from a front-view camera to a full 360 view. On our large-scale road feature dataset, XD-MAP outperforms single shot baseline approaches by +19.5 mIoU for 2D semantic segmentation, +19.5 PQth for 2D panoptic segmentation, and +32.3 mIoU in 3D semantic segmentation. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach achieving strong performance on LiDAR data without any manual labeling.

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