# Integrating Multiple Sources Knowledge for Class Asymmetry Domain Adaptation Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09893 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.09893/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 28 of its 77 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 May 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 28 of 28)

- [CutMix: Regularization Strategy to Train Strong Classifiers with Localizable Features](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.04899/) (2019)
- [ADVENT: Adversarial Entropy Minimization for Domain Adaptation in Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.12833/) (2018)
- [DAFormer: Improving Network Architectures and Training Strategies for Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.14887/) (2021)
- [Taking A Closer Look at Domain Shift: Category-level Adversaries for Semantics Consistent Domain Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.09478/) (2018)
- [Prototypical Pseudo Label Denoising and Target Structure Learning for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2101.10979/) (2021)
- [LoveDA: A Remote Sensing Land-Cover Dataset for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.08733/) (2021)
- [Hypergraph Convolution and Hypergraph Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.08150/) (2019)
- [ClassMix: Segmentation-Based Data Augmentation for Semi-Supervised Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.07936/) (2020)
- [HRDA: Context-Aware High-Resolution Domain-Adaptive Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.13132/) (2022)
- [Classes Matter: A Fine-grained Adversarial Approach to Cross-domain Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.09222/) (2020)
- [UIU-Net: U-Net in U-Net for Infrared Small Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00968/) (2022)
- [Deep Cocktail Network: Multi-source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Category Shift](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.00830/) (2018)
- [SePiCo: Semantic-Guided Pixel Contrast for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.08808/) (2022)
- [Partial Transfer Learning with Selective Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1707.07901/) (2017)
- [Multi-source Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.12181/) (2019)
- [An Augmented Linear Mixing Model to Address Spectral Variability for Hyperspectral Unmixing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.12000/) (2018)
- [Class-Balanced Pixel-Level Self-Labeling for Domain Adaptive Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.09744/) (2022)
- [Multi-Source Domain Adaptation with Collaborative Learning for Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.04717/) (2021)
- [Looking Outside the Window: Wide-Context Transformer for the Semantic Segmentation of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.15754/) (2021)
- [ColorMapGAN: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation Using Color Mapping Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.12859/) (2019)
- [Select, Label, and Mix: Learning Discriminative Invariant Feature Representations for Partial Domain Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.03358/) (2020)
- [Unsupervised domain adaptation semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery with invariant domain-level prototype memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.07722/) (2022)
- [DAugNet: Unsupervised, Multi-source, Multi-target, and Life-long Domain Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation of Satellite Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.06216/) (2020)
- [From Big to Small: Adaptive Learning to Partial-Set Domains](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.07375/) (2022)
- [A Review of Landcover Classification with Very-High Resolution Remotely Sensed Optical Images-Analysis Unit,Model Scalability and Transferability](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.03342/) (2022)
- [High-resolution semantically-consistent image-to-image translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.06264/) (2022)
- [Union-set Multi-source Model Adaptation for Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.02785/) (2022)
- [Depth-Assisted ResiDualGAN for Cross-Domain Aerial Images Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.09823/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [Diff-Mosaic: Augmenting Realistic Representations in Infrared Small Target Detection via Diffusion Prior](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.00632/) (2024)
- [Multi-source Domain Adaptation for Panoramic Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.16469/) (2024)
- [Deep Learning Based Domain Adaptation Methods in Remote Sensing: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.15615/) (2025)
- [Sampling Innovation-Based Adaptive Compressive Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.13241/) (2025)
- [SETrLUSI: Stochastic Ensemble Multi-Source Transfer Learning Using Statistical Invariant](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.15593/) (2025)
- [Prototype-Based Pseudo-Label Denoising for Source-Free Domain Adaptation in Remote Sensing Semantic Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.16942/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In the existing unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods for remote sensing images (RSIs) semantic segmentation, class symmetry is an widely followed ideal assumption, where the source and target RSIs have exactly the same class space. In practice, however, it is often very difficult to find a source RSI with exactly the same classes as the target RSI. More commonly, there are multiple source RSIs available. To this end, a novel class asymmetry RSIs domain adaptation method with multiple sources is proposed in this paper, which consists of four key components. Firstly, a multi-branch segmentation network is built to learn an expert for each source RSI. Secondly, a novel collaborative learning method with the cross-domain mixing strategy is proposed, to supplement the class information for each source while achieving the domain adaptation of each source-target pair. Thirdly, a pseudo-label generation strategy is proposed to effectively combine strengths of different experts, which can be flexibly applied to two cases where the source class union is equal to or includes the target class set. Fourthly, a multiview-enhanced knowledge integration module is developed for the high-level knowledge routing and transfer from multiple domains to target predictions.
