CMDA: Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation for Nighttime Semantic Segmentation
This addresses the problem of poor segmentation in low-light conditions for autonomous systems, offering a novel multi-modality approach that is incremental in combining existing techniques.
The paper tackles nighttime semantic segmentation by proposing a cross-modality domain adaptation framework that leverages both images and event cameras, achieving effective results on public and new datasets with open-sourced code and data.
Most nighttime semantic segmentation studies are based on domain adaptation approaches and image input. However, limited by the low dynamic range of conventional cameras, images fail to capture structural details and boundary information in low-light conditions. Event cameras, as a new form of vision sensors, are complementary to conventional cameras with their high dynamic range. To this end, we propose a novel unsupervised Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation (CMDA) framework to leverage multi-modality (Images and Events) information for nighttime semantic segmentation, with only labels on daytime images. In CMDA, we design the Image Motion-Extractor to extract motion information and the Image Content-Extractor to extract content information from images, in order to bridge the gap between different modalities (Images to Events) and domains (Day to Night). Besides, we introduce the first image-event nighttime semantic segmentation dataset. Extensive experiments on both the public image dataset and the proposed image-event dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. We open-source our code, models, and dataset at https://github.com/XiaRho/CMDA.