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SAGA: Semantic-Aware Gray color Augmentation for Visible-to-Thermal Domain Adaptation across Multi-View Drone and Ground-Based Vision Systems

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Pith's one-line read This paper proposes SAGA, a training-time augmentation that grayscales only object instances, and reports +0.4 to +7.6 mAP gains for RGB-to-thermal adaptation.

desk verdict Simple, plausible augmentation and a new aerial dataset, but the main results table is internally contradictory; the empirical claims need verification before they can be trusted. read the letter →

arxiv 2504.15728 v1 pith:E2LKD6D6 submitted 2025-04-22 cs.CV

Manjunath D , Aniruddh Sikdar , Prajwal Gurunath , Sumanth Udupa , Suresh Sundaram This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CV
keywords domain-adaptivethermalobjectdetectionRGB-to-IRunsuperviseddomainadaptationgrayscalecoloraugmentationmeanteacherpseudo-labelsRGB-IRdronedatasetimagingIndraEyebenchmark
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The reading

The paper tries to establish that a source-only augmentation, applied while training a visible-RGB detector for use on unlabeled thermal images, can close much of the modality gap without paired RGB-IR data. SAGA takes each labeled object instance in a source RGB image, converts just those pixels to grayscale, and leaves the background in color. Run inside existing mean-teacher adaptation methods, SAGA yields reported mAP gains of +0.4 to +7.6 across the FLIR, LLVIP, and newly introduced IndraEye datasets. The same paper introduces IndraEye, a 5,612-image RGB-IR drone dataset with 145,666 instances across 13 classes, offered as a benchmark for adaptation, detection, and segmentation. A sympathetic reader would care because the proposal is a drop-in preprocessing step, not a new detector architecture, so improvements would transfer to existing pipelines.

What carries the argument

The machinery is the hybrid RGB-grayscale image produced by SAGA. For each source image, the paper extracts every labeled object region, multiplies its red, green, and blue channels by the luminance weights $[0.2989, 0.5870, 0.1140]$, and pastes the gray object back into the color background. This object-level gray image is fed into a student-teacher adaptation loop in which the teacher's weights are an exponential moving average of the student's weights. The augmentation's role is to strip the dominant color cue from objects while keeping scene context intact, so the teacher generates better pseudo-labels on unlabeled IR frames.

What would settle it

A direct test would compare CMT with and without SAGA on a thermal target containing objects with low or inverted thermal contrast, for example pedestrians on a hot day or vehicles right after engine-off; if the mAP gain disappears or reverses on those classes, the grayscale-proxy assumption is the failing link.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that replacing color inside object bounding boxes with grayscale, while keeping the color background, improves RGB-to-IR adaptation in mean-teacher detectors. In the paper's experiments, the contrastive mean teacher (CMT) rises from 63.3 to 65.7 mAP on FLIR and from 41.6 to 49.2 mAP on LLVIP, while the dual-domain teacher (D3T) rises from 61.8 to 66.1 mAP on FLIR; on IndraEye, CMT rises from 17.1 to 19.3 and D3T from 30.3 to 32.9 mAP. The paper attributes the improvement to reduced color bias, which yields fewer false positives and better pseudo-labels on the unlabeled IR target. It also reports that converting the entire image to grayscale lowers CMT on FLIR to 61.1 mAP, supporting the claim that preserving background context is doing part of the work.

Load-bearing premise

The method assumes that a grayscale version of an RGB object is a good enough stand-in for its thermal image to improve teacher pseudo-labels, even though grayscale luminance and thermal radiance are not physically tied.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Adding SAGA to the contrastive mean teacher raises reported mAP by +2.4 on FLIR, +7.6 on LLVIP, and +2.2 on IndraEye.
  • Adding SAGA to the dual-domain teacher raises reported mAP by +4.3 on FLIR, +0.4 on LLVIP, and +2.6 on IndraEye.
  • Converting the entire image to grayscale lowers CMT performance on FLIR to 61.1 mAP, below the 63.3 no-augmentation baseline, so object-level selectivity matters.
  • SAGA remains beneficial when combined with jigsaw-based pretraining, reaching 68.2 mAP for D3T+SAGA on FLIR versus 66.1 without the pretraining.
  • Qualitative results in the paper show fewer false positives and better detection of small objects in IR drone imagery when SAGA is used.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because SAGA is a source-side preprocessing step rather than a change to the detector, the same recipe could plausibly extend to other self-training or adversarial RGB-to-IR pipelines and to semantic segmentation, although the paper reports only detection experiments.
  • The grayscale weights used are luminance weights tuned to human vision, not a physical model of thermal emission; classes with weak or inverted thermal contrast, such as cool objects in hot scenes, may not follow the reported pattern.
  • The mechanism likely acts through pseudo-label quality, so ablating the teacher's confidence threshold or the EMA decay rate could reveal whether SAGA's benefit is concentrated in the early adaptation phase or persists throughout training.
  • A stronger variant would replace neutral gray with a class-specific synthetic thermal appearance, which would test whether the gray proxy is a ceiling of the idea or just its first approximation.
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Referee Report

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Summary. This paper proposes SAGA, an instance-level color augmentation that converts foreground object pixels in source RGB images to grayscale while retaining colored backgrounds, intended to reduce the RGB-to-thermal domain gap in unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) for object detection. The authors also present IndraEye, a new RGB-IR drone dataset with detection and segmentation annotations over 13 classes, and evaluate SAGA by integrating it with CMT and D3T on FLIR, LLVIP, and IndraEye, reporting consistent mAP improvements of +0.4 to +7.6. Additional experiments benchmark object detectors on IndraEye and examine cross-dataset generalization and compatibility with the Jigsaw pretraining method.

Significance. The contribution is potentially useful: a simple, training-only augmentation that improves RGB-to-IR adaptation would be readily adoptable, and a new public multi-sensor drone dataset with both detection and segmentation labels is a valuable resource. The paper is honest in that SAGA does not fit parameters to target data, and the gains are measured against external baselines. However, the central experimental evidence in Table 5 and Table 9 contains serious internal inconsistencies that must be resolved before the claims can be assessed; the method's defining equation is also imprecise. The dataset contribution is substantial and likely of interest to the community, but the paper as a whole is not yet self-consistent.

major comments (4)
  1. [3.2, Eq. (3)] The grayscale conversion in Eq. (3) is not a valid grayscale transformation. The standard luminance conversion is Y = 0.2989R + 0.587G + 0.114B, producing a single channel, whereas Eq. (3) multiplies the R, G, and B channels by the respective constants and preserves three channels, which would change color relationships without removing chromatic information. Since SAGA is defined by this equation, the exact pixel operation must be specified unambiguously (e.g., setting R=G=B=Y) and the implementation used in the experiments should be described.
  2. [Table 5, LLVIP and IndraEye CMT rows] The CMT baseline is reported as 41.6 mAP on LLVIP and 17.1 on IndraEye, while the Source row (no adaptation, RGB-trained model tested on IR) is 82.8 and 50.5, respectively. An adaptation method performing 41 and 33 points below its own source model is highly implausible and no failure mode is documented. If these baselines are incorrectly reported, the claimed gains of +7.6 and +2.2 for CMT+SAGA are not supported; if they are correct, the adaptation setup itself is broken. This anomaly must be resolved before the central claim can be evaluated.
  3. [Table 9] Table 9 is missing a dataset label and its numbers are inconsistent with Table 5 for what appears to be the same setting: CMT is 65.7 in Table 9 but 63.3 in Table 5, CMT+SAGA is 65.7 in both tables (implying zero gain) while Table 5 reports +2.4, and Oracle is 63.3 in Table 9 but 67.5 in Table 5. Since Table 9 is the only evidence for compatibility with Jigen, these unresolved discrepancies leave that claim unsupported.
  4. [Section 4.2.1, Table 5] The text states that SAGA improves CMT by 3.6 mAP on LLVIP, but Table 5 reports an improvement of +7.6 mAP; this text/table mismatch compounds the baseline problem above. Additionally, D3T on LLVIP (88.1) exceeds the IR Oracle (83.0), which is surprising for an unsupervised adaptation method and warrants an explanation or a check of the Oracle definition.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Equation (1)] In Eq. (1), "Ltrt" appears to be a typo for "L_tgt"; please correct.
  2. [Table 9] Table 9 lacks a caption identifying the dataset and experimental setting.
  3. [Section 4.1, Table 5] Section 4.1 states that AT is evaluated, but no AT results appear in Table 5 or elsewhere.
  4. [Abstract, Table 1] The abstract claims 145,666 instances, but summing the scene-wise instances in Table 1 gives approximately 142,991; this discrepancy and the class-list count (14 entries versus the stated 13 classes) should be reconciled.
  5. [Conclusion] The claim that IndraEye is "the first multisensor aerial perception dataset" is contradicted by VEDAI, DroneVehicle, and M3FD, which the paper itself lists in Table 2; the wording should be softened.

Circularity Check

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No circular derivation: SAGA is an external augmentation heuristic with standard luminance weights, evaluated against independent baselines.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is that SAGA, an instance-level grayscale augmentation using fixed standard luminance weights [0.2989, 0.587, 0.114], improves RGB-to-IR domain adaptation when integrated with existing methods (CMT, D3T, AT). The method itself is not derived from a target quantity or fitted to target data; Eq. (3) is a fixed pixel transformation. No parameter is tuned to the target domain, and the improvement is measured against external baselines reported in Tables 5, 8, and 9. The paper's self-citations (e.g., [47], [48], [49]) appear in related-work and motivation contexts but are not load-bearing for the SAGA formulation; the method's rationale is an empirical heuristic, not a theorem imported from prior same-author work. The ablation in Table 8 compares SAGA to full grayscale and vanilla CMT, providing internal, non-circular evidence. A possible concern is that the numerical evidence in Table 5 contains implausible baselines (e.g., CMT at 41.6 mAP on LLVIP versus Source at 82.8 mAP) and conflicts with Table 9, but this is an empirical-correctness or reproducibility issue, not circularity: the reported numbers, even if wrong or inconsistent, do not make the derivation equivalent to its inputs. No step in the paper defines SAGA in terms of the outcome it predicts, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. Therefore, the circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that graying object instances in source RGB images approximates thermal appearance, plus the standard Mean Teacher training setup. No free parameters are fitted; the reported results are used only for evaluation. The dataset statistics inconsistency is noted in red flags.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Converting object instances in source RGB images to grayscale while preserving background color reduces the RGB-thermal domain gap better than full-image grayscale.
    Central mechanism in Section 3.2; supported only by the ablation in Table 8, not by an independent principle.
  • domain assumption The Mean Teacher EMA framework with pseudo-labels benefits from source-side augmentation that mimics target modality appearance.
    Section 3.1; the entire evaluation rests on this framework.
  • domain assumption The luminance coefficients [0.2989, 0.587, 0.114] are an appropriate approximation of thermal intensity for object instances.
    Section 3.2 Eq. (3); no physical or empirical justification beyond standard grayscale practice.
  • domain assumption Evaluation on FLIR, LLVIP, and IndraEye with mAP@0.5 is representative of RGB-to-IR domain adaptation performance.
    Section 4.1; all conclusions are drawn from these three datasets with a single metric.
  • domain assumption The reported dataset instance counts and splits are accurate.
    The abstract reports 145,666 instances, but Table 1 sums to approximately 142,991; this assumption is questionable.

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Domain-adaptive thermal object detection plays a key role in facilitating visible (RGB)-to-thermal (IR) adaptation by reducing the need for co-registered image pairs and minimizing reliance on large annotated IR datasets. However, inherent limitations of IR images, such as the lack of color and texture cues, pose challenges for RGB-trained models, leading to increased false positives and poor-quality pseudo-labels. To address this, we propose Semantic-Aware Gray color Augmentation (SAGA), a novel strategy for mitigating color bias and bridging the domain gap by extracting object-level features relevant to IR images. Additionally, to validate the proposed SAGA for drone imagery, we introduce the IndraEye, a multi-sensor (RGB-IR) dataset designed for diverse applications. The dataset contains 5,612 images with 145,666 instances, captured from diverse angles, altitudes, backgrounds, and times of day, offering valuable opportunities for multimodal learning, domain adaptation for object detection and segmentation, and exploration of sensor-specific strengths and weaknesses. IndraEye aims to enhance the development of more robust and accurate aerial perception systems, especially in challenging environments. Experimental results show that SAGA significantly improves RGB-to-IR adaptation for autonomous driving and IndraEye dataset, achieving consistent performance gains of +0.4% to +7.6% (mAP) when integrated with state-of-the-art domain adaptation techniques. The dataset and codes are available at https://github.com/airliisc/IndraEye.

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