SeCoV2: Semantic Connectivity-Driven Pseudo-Labeling for Robust Cross-Domain Semantic Segmentation
Pseudo-labeling is a dominant strategy for cross-domain semantic segmentation (CDSS), yet its effectiveness is limited by fragmented and noisy pixel-level predictions under severe domain shifts. To address this, we propose a semantic connectivity-driven pseudo-labeling framework, SeCo, which constructs and refines pseudo-labels at the connectivity level by aggregating high-confidence pixels into coherent semantic regions. The framework includes two key components: Pixel Semantic Aggregation (PSA), which leverages a dual prompting strategy to preserve category-specific granularity, and Semantic Connectivity Correction with Loss Distribution (SCC-LD), which filters noisy regions based on early-loss statistics. Building upon this foundation, we further present SeCoV2, which introduces SCC-Unc, a novel uncertainty-aware correction module that constructs a connectivity graph and enforces relational consistency for robust refinement in ambiguous regions. SeCoV2 also broadens the applicability of SeCo by extending evaluation to more challenging scenarios, including open-set and multimodal adaptation, semi-supervised domain generalization, and by validating compatibility with different interactive foundation segmentation models such as SAM Kirillov et al. 2023, SEEM Zou et al. 2023, and Fast-SAM Zhao et al. 2023. Extensive experiments across six CDSS tasks demonstrate that SeCoV2 achieves consistent improvements over previous methods, with an average performance gain of up to +4.6%, establishing new state-of-the-art results. These findings highlight the effectiveness and generalization ability for robust adaptation in diverse real-world environments.
Authors
- Qi Zang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0846-7987)
- Nicu Sebe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6597-7248)
- Nan Pu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2179-8301)
- Zhun Zhong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8202-0544)
- Dong Zhao
- Shuang Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1822-1613)
Institutions
- Xidian University (CN)
- Hefei University of Technology (CN)
- University of Trento (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Published
- 2025-08-08
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2025.3596943
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.96