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 applicabilit...

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.

SeCoV2: Semantic Connectivity-Driven Pseudo-Labeling for Robust Cross-Domain Semantic Segmentation / Zhao, D.; Zang, Q.; Pu, N.; Wang, S.; Sebe, N.; Zhong, Z.. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. - ISSN 0162-8828. - 47:11(2025), pp. 10378-10395. [10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3596943]

SeCoV2: Semantic Connectivity-Driven Pseudo-Labeling for Robust Cross-Domain Semantic Segmentation

Zhao D.;Pu N.;Sebe N.;Zhong Z.
2025-01-01

Abstract

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 applicabilit...
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Zhao, D.; Zang, Q.; Pu, N.; Wang, S.; Sebe, N.; Zhong, Z.
SeCoV2: Semantic Connectivity-Driven Pseudo-Labeling for Robust Cross-Domain Semantic Segmentation / Zhao, D.; Zang, Q.; Pu, N.; Wang, S.; Sebe, N.; Zhong, Z.. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. - ISSN 0162-8828. - 47:11(2025), pp. 10378-10395. [10.1109/TPAMI.2025.3596943]
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