Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is an important topic in the computer vision community. The key difficulty lies in defining a common property between the source and target domains so that the source-domain features can align with the target-domain semantics. In this paper, we present a simple and effective mechanism that regularizes cross-domain representation learning with a domain-agnostic prior (DAP) that constrains the features extracted from source and target domains to align with a domain-agnostic space. In practice, this is easily implemented as an extra loss term that requires a little extra costs. In the standard evaluation protocol of transferring synthesized data to real data, we validate the effectiveness of different types of DAP, especially that borrowed from a text embedding model that shows favorable performance beyond the state-of-the-art UDA approaches in terms of segmentation accuracy. Our research reveals that UDA benefits much from better proxies, possibly from other data modalities.

本研究通过在源域和目标域约束特征，提出一种简单高效的无监督域自适应方法，即使用无领域先验(DAP)正则化交叉域表示学习，这种方法在将综合数据转移到真实数据的标准评估协议中，表现出优秀的语义分割准确性，对于提高模型的分类表现具有指导意义。

领域无关的先验知识在语义分割中的迁移