TestMate: Test-Time Domain Adaptation Aided by Lightweight Vision Foundation Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03810v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:32:15 GMT
• Title: TestMate: Test-Time Domain Adaptation Aided by Lightweight Vision Foundation Model
• Abstract summary: Test-Time Domain Adaptation (TTDA) aims to adapt Deep Neural Networks to distribution shifts using only streaming, unlabeled test data in real time.<n>We introduce TestMate, a novel, real-time, and backpropagation-free TTDA framework that overcomes these issues.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Test-Time Domain Adaptation (TTDA) aims to adapt Deep Neural Networks to distribution shifts using only streaming, unlabeled test data in real time. Current methods for semantic segmentation tasks suffer from critical limitations. Entropy minimization techniques require costly backpropagation, risking catastrophic forgetting and producing noisy segmentation boundaries. Memory-bank methods, while backpropagation-free, exhibit slow adaptation, requiring numerous samples to converge and struggle to handle continuous domain shifts. We introduce TestMate, a novel, real-time, and backpropagation-free TTDA framework that overcomes these issues. TestMate leverages generalization capability of a lightweight Visual Foundation Model to guide the adaptation. We use a zero-shot instance segmentation YOLOv8-seg based model to generate unlabeled mask proposals for objects and their parts at multiple scales in real time. These proposals are fused with the primary model via a heuristic, size-ordered competitive scheme, where small, high-confidence regions dominate and refine predictions in surrounding larger, less certain areas. This paremeter-free mechanism enables immediate adaptation from the first frame, inherently avoids catastrophic forgetting and effectively preserves fine object details and boundaries, even for small objects. TestMate can be used as a standalone, efficient refinement module or seamlessly integrated into existing TTDA methods to significantly boost their performance. We demonstrate state-of-the-art results across two benchmark datasets, proving TestMate's effectiveness in three distinct adaptation tasks: TTDA, Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA), and online-TTDA. Code is available.

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