ICM: Intra-class Mixing for Domain Adaptation in Adverse Weather

Boying Li, Chang Liu, Britta Ayano Wilde, György Kovács, Tosin Adewumi +2

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for semantic segmentation remains challenging under adverse weather conditions because severe appearance changes enlarge the domain gap and degrade the reliability of pseudo labels in the target domain. To address this problem, we propose an Intra-Class Mixing Consistency (ICM) framework that enforces prediction consistency between an intra-class mixed image and its original counterpart. Unlike previous mixing-based consistency methods that combine regions across different images or domains and may introduce unrealistic semantic inconsistencies, ICM performs mixing within the same image and semantic class, preserving realistic semantic layout for consistency regularization. With ICM, we establish a new state-of-the-art performance for clear-to-adverse-weather unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) in semantic segmentation. On the Cityscapes $\rightarrow$ ACDC benchmark, our method achieves 75.7\% mIoU, outperforming the previous state of the art by +1.9 pp, demonstrating its effectiveness in mitigating class confusion under challenging environmental conditions. The code is provided in the supplementary material.