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Long-Term Vehicle Localization by Recursive Knowledge Distillation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2019-06-04 v1

Abstract

Most of the current state-of-the-art frameworks for cross-season visual place recognition (CS-VPR) focus on domain adaptation (DA) to a single specific season. From the viewpoint of long-term CS-VPR, such frameworks do not scale well to sequential multiple domains (e.g., spring - summer - autumn - winter - ... ). The goal of this study is to develop a novel long-term ensemble learning (LEL) framework that allows for a constant cost retraining in long-term sequential-multi-domain CS-VPR (SMD-VPR), which only requires the memorization of a small constant number of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and can retrain the CNN ensemble of every season at a small constant time/space cost. We frame our task as the multi-teacher multi-student knowledge distillation (MTMS-KD), which recursively compresses all the previous season's knowledge into a current CNN ensemble. We further address the issue of teacher-student-assignment (TSA) to achieve a good generalization/specialization tradeoff. Experimental results on SMD-VPR tasks validate the efficacy of the proposed approach.

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@article{arxiv.1904.03551,
  title  = {Long-Term Vehicle Localization by Recursive Knowledge Distillation},
  author = {Hiroki Tomoe and Tanaka Kanji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03551},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, technical report. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.05470 by other authors

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