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With the rapid development of computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) offer the tantalising prospect of unified information processing across visual and textual domains due to the lack of inherent inductive biases in ViTs. ViTs require…

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Compact and efficient 6DoF object pose estimation is crucial in applications such as robotics, augmented reality, and space autonomous navigation systems, where lightweight models are critical for real-time accurate performance. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Nassim Ali Ousalah , Anis Kacem , Enjie Ghorbel , Emmanuel Koumandakis , Djamila Aouada

Knowledge distillation has emerged as a powerful technique for model compression, enabling the transfer of knowledge from large teacher networks to compact student models. However, traditional knowledge distillation methods treat all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Aakash Gore , Anoushka Dey , Aryan Mishra

Self-supervised learning has achieved remarkable success in learning visual representations from clean data, yet remains challenging when clean observations are sparse or not available at all. In this paper, we demonstrate that pretrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Konstantinos Alexis , Giorgos Giannopoulos , Dimitrios Gunopulos

The stability of visual odometry (VO) systems is undermined by degraded image quality, especially in environments with significant illumination changes. This study employs a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to train agents for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shuyang Zhang , Jinhao He , Yilong Zhu , Jin Wu , Jie Yuan

This paper presents a study on improving human action recognition through the utilization of knowledge distillation, and the combination of CNN and ViT models. The research aims to enhance the performance and efficiency of smaller student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hamid Ahmadabadi , Omid Nejati Manzari , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Knowledge distillation (KD) aims to transfer the knowledge of a more capable yet cumbersome teacher model to a lightweight student model. In recent years, relation-based KD methods have fallen behind, as their instance-matching counterparts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Weijia Zhang , Fei Xie , Weidong Cai , Chao Ma

Knowledge Distillation is a technique which aims to utilize dark knowledge to compress and transfer information from a vast, well-trained neural network (teacher model) to a smaller, less capable neural network (student model) with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Fahad Rahman Amik , Ahnaf Ismat Tasin , Silvia Ahmed , M. M. Lutfe Elahi , Nabeel Mohammed

We propose a method to infer a dense depth map from a single image, its calibration, and the associated sparse point cloud. In order to leverage existing models (teachers) that produce putative depth maps, we propose an adaptive knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Tian Yu Liu , Parth Agrawal , Allison Chen , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

We propose a novel deep visual odometry (VO) method that considers global information by selecting memory and refining poses. Existing learning-based methods take the VO task as a pure tracking problem via recovering camera poses from image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Fei Xue , Xin Wang , Junqiu Wang , Hongbin Zha

Deep learning models may converge to suboptimal solutions despite strong validation accuracy, masking an optimization failure we term Trajectory Deviation. This is because as training proceeds, models can abandon high generalization states…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Eli Corn , Daphna Weinshall

With the success of deep neural networks, knowledge distillation which guides the learning of a small student network from a large teacher network is being actively studied for model compression and transfer learning. However, few studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Wonchul Son , Jaemin Na , Junyong Choi , Wonjun Hwang

Performing knowledge transfer from a large teacher network to a smaller student is a popular task in modern deep learning applications. However, due to growing dataset sizes and stricter privacy regulations, it is increasingly common not to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Paul Micaelli , Amos Storkey

DEtection TRansformer (DETR) becomes a dominant paradigm, mainly due to its common architecture with high accuracy and no post-processing. However, DETR suffers from unstable training dynamics. It consumes more data and epochs to converge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Shengjian Wu , Li Sun , Qingli Li

Knowledge Distillation (KD) transfers knowledge from a large teacher model to a smaller student by aligning their predictive distributions. However, conventional KD formulations - typically based on Kullback-Leibler divergence - assume that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ondrej Tybl , Lukas Neumann

Knowledge distillation is a common technique for improving the performance of a shallow student network by transferring information from a teacher network, which in general, is comparatively large and deep. These teacher networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Ishan Mishra , Sethu Vamsi Krishna , Deepak Mishra

Knowledge distillation can lead to deploy-friendly networks against the plagued computational complexity problem, but previous methods neglect the feature hierarchy in detectors. Motivated by this, we propose a general framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yangyang Qin , Hefei Ling , Zhenghai He , Yuxuan Shi , Lei Wu

Despite the fact that deep neural networks are powerful models and achieve appealing results on many tasks, they are too large to be deployed on edge devices like smartphones or embedded sensor nodes. There have been efforts to compress…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Seyed-Iman Mirzadeh , Mehrdad Farajtabar , Ang Li , Nir Levine , Akihiro Matsukawa , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Conventional transfer learning leverages weights of pre-trained networks, but mandates the need for similar neural architectures. Alternatively, knowledge distillation can transfer knowledge between heterogeneous networks but often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhang Wang , Vivek Kumar Singh , Alex Benjamin , Mercy Asiedu , Elham Yousef Kalafi , Eugene Cheah , Viksit Kumar , Anthony Samir

Deep learning networks have achieved state-of-the-art accuracies on computer vision workloads like image classification and object detection. The performant systems, however, typically involve big models with numerous parameters. Once…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Asit Mishra , Debbie Marr