VCSeg: Virtual Camera Adaptation for Road Segmentation
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Domain shift limits generalization in many problem domains. For road segmentation, one of the principal causes of domain shift is variation in the geometric camera parameters, which results in misregistration of scene structure between images. To address this issue, we decompose the shift into two components: Between-camera shift and within-camera shift. To handle between-camera shift, we assume that average camera parameters are known or can be estimated and use this knowledge to rectify both source and target domain images to a standard virtual camera model. To handle within-camera shift, we use estimates of road vanishing points to correct for shifts in camera pan and tilt. While this approach improves alignment, it produces gaps in the virtual image that complicates network training. To solve this problem, we introduce a novel projective image completion method that fills these gaps in a plausible way. Using five diverse and challenging road segmentation datasets, we demonstrate that our virtual camera method dramatically improves road segmentation performance when generalizing across cameras, and propose that this be integrated as a standard component of road segmentation systems to improve generalization.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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