학술논문

Unsupervised Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation with Uncertainty Loss / 不確実性ロスによるセマンティックセグメンテーションの教師無しドメイン適応
Document Type
Journal Article
Source
精密工学会誌 / Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering. 2023, 89(12):921
Subject
domain adaptation
semantic segmentation
unsupervised learning
Language
Japanese
ISSN
0912-0289
1882-675X
Abstract
In recent years, deep learning models have achieved great success in many fields, but their training relies on large labeled data. Annotation to obtain labeled samples is challenging, time-consuming, and expensive, and has been a major challenge in deep learning. In this study, we propose a method for unsupervised domain adaptation that can reduce annotation cost in terms of accuracy and time compared to conventional methods by using the uncertainty of the model in semantic segmentation. Unsupervised domain adaptation aims to adapt models trained on synthetic data to real-world data without the need for costly annotation of real images. Since the training data are images and correct labels created by the game engine, there is no need to manually annotate them. However, if the source (synthetic) data is trained using conventional supervised learning, the performance is significantly degraded because the domain is different from the target (real image) data.This study closes the domain gap between source and target by calculating the uncertainty in the target data from the model output on a pixel-by-pixel basis and minimizing this uncertainty as loss. Adding this uncertainty loss to conventional unsupervised domain adaptation methods results in a model that is more robust to the target domain and achieves state-of-the-art results.