Consistency regularization for unsupervised domain adaptation in semantic segmentation
- Unsupervised domain adaptation is a promising technique for computer vision tasks, especially when annotating large amounts of data is very costly and time-consuming, as in semantic segmentation. Here it is attractive to train neural networks on simulated data and fit them to real data on which the models are to be used. In this paper, we propose a consistency regularization method for domain adaptation in semantic segmentation that combines pseudo-labels and strong per- turbations. We analyse the impact of two simple perturbations, dropout and image mixing, and show how they contribute enormously to the final performance. Experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that our simple approach achieves strong results on relevant synthetic-to-real domain adaptation benchmarks.