SUMMIT: Source-Free Adaptation of Uni-Modal Models to Multi-Modal
  Targets
Cody Simons Dripta S. Raychaudhuri Sk Miraj Ahmed Suya You Konstantinos Karydis Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
Scene understanding using multi-modal data is necessary in many applications,
e.g., autonomous navigation. To achieve this in a variety of situations,
existing models must be able to adapt to shifting data distributions without
arduous data annotation. Current approaches assume that the source data is
available during adaptation and that the source consists of paired multi-modal
data. Both these assumptions may be problematic for many applications. Source
data may not be available due to privacy, security, or economic concerns.
Assuming the existence of paired multi-modal data for training also entails
significant data collection costs and fails to take advantage of widely
available freely distributed pre-trained uni-modal models. In this work, we
relax both of these assumptions by addressing the problem of adapting a set of
models trained independently on uni-modal data to a target domain consisting of
unlabeled multi-modal data, without having access to the original source
dataset. Our proposed approach solves this problem through a switching
framework which automatically chooses between two complementary methods of
cross-modal pseudo-label fusion -- agreement filtering and entropy weighting --
based on the estimated domain gap. We demonstrate our work on the semantic
segmentation problem. Experiments across seven challenging adaptation scenarios
verify the efficacy of our approach, achieving results comparable to, and in
some cases outperforming, methods which assume access to source data. Our
method achieves an improvement in mIoU of up to 12% over competing baselines.
Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/csimo005/SUMMIT.