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Knowledge distillation(KD) is a widely-used technique to train compact models in object detection. However, there is still a lack of study on how to distill between heterogeneous detectors. In this paper, we empirically find that better FPN…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Weihan Cao , Yifan Zhang , Jianfei Gao , Anda Cheng , Ke Cheng , Jian Cheng

Deep convolutional neural network significantly boosted the capability of salient object detection in handling large variations of scenes and object appearances. However, convolution operations seek to generate strong responses on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sanping Zhou , Jimuyang Zhang , Jinjun Wang , Fei Wang , Dong Huang

In this paper, we investigate the knowledge distillation (KD) strategy for object detection and propose an effective framework applicable to both homogeneous and heterogeneous student-teacher pairs. The conventional feature imitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Lewei Yao , Renjie Pi , Hang Xu , Wei Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Tong Zhang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) has been used in image classification for model compression. However, rare studies apply this technology on single-stage object detectors. Focal loss shows that the accumulated errors of easily-classified samples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Shitao Tang , Litong Feng , Wenqi Shao , Zhanghui Kuang , Wei Zhang , Yimin Chen

Knowledge distillation is widely adopted in semantic segmentation to reduce the computation cost.The previous knowledge distillation methods for semantic segmentation focus on pixel-wise feature alignment and intra-class feature variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Zhengbo Zhang , Chunluan Zhou , Zhigang Tu

Marine Saliency Segmentation (MSS) plays a pivotal role in various vision-based marine exploration tasks. However, existing marine segmentation techniques face the dilemma of object mislocalization and imprecise boundaries due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Laibin Chang , Yunke Wang , JiaXing Huang , Longxiang Deng , Bo Du , Chang Xu

Vanilla pixel-level classifiers for semantic segmentation are based on a certain paradigm, involving the inner product of fixed prototypes obtained from the training set and pixel features in the test image. This approach, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xiaowen Ma , Zhenliang Ni , Xinghao Chen

Mainstream object detectors are commonly constituted of two sub-tasks, including classification and regression tasks, implemented by two parallel heads. This classic design paradigm inevitably leads to inconsistent spatial distributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ruining Tang , Zhenyu Liu , Yangguang Li , Yiguo Song , Hui Liu , Qide Wang , Jing Shao , Guifang Duan , Jianrong Tan

Diffusion-based Video Super-Resolution (VSR) is renowned for generating perceptually realistic videos, yet it grapples with maintaining detail consistency across frames due to stochastic fluctuations. The traditional approach of pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qi Tang , Yao Zhao , Meiqin Liu , Chao Yao

Most existing CNN-based salient object detection methods can identify local segmentation details like hair and animal fur, but often misinterpret the real saliency due to the lack of global contextual information caused by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bo Xu , Guanze Liu , Han Huang , Cheng Lu , Yandong Guo

Recently, many methods have been proposed for object detection. They cannot detect objects by semantic features, adaptively. In this work, according to channel and spatial attention mechanisms, we mainly analyze that different methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Qian Li , Nan Guo , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan , Zhimin Tang

The balance between high accuracy and high speed has always been a challenging task in semantic image segmentation. Compact segmentation networks are more widely used in the case of limited resources, while their performances are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Yingchao Feng , Xian Sun , Wenhui Diao , Jihao Li , Xin Gao

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) aims to form class-agnostic models segmenting unseen classes with only a handful of annotations. Previous methods limited to the semantic feature and prototype representation suffer from coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Bohao Peng , Zhuotao Tian , Xiaoyang Wu , Chengyao Wang , Shu Liu , Jingyong Su , Jiaya Jia

Change detection, i.e. identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Foivos I. Diakogiannis , François Waldner , Peter Caccetta

In this technical report, we describe our submission for Task 1, Low-Complexity Device-Robust Acoustic Scene Classification, of the DCASE 2025 Challenge. Our work tackles the dual challenges of strict complexity constraints and robust…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Seung Gyu Jeong , Seong Eun Kim

Effectively structuring deep knowledge plays a pivotal role in transfer from teacher to student, especially in semantic vision tasks. In this paper, we present a simple knowledge structure to exploit and encode information inside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yixin Chen , Pengguang Chen , Shu Liu , Liwei Wang , Jiaya Jia

Unsupervised segmentation approaches have increasingly leveraged foundation models (FM) to improve salient object discovery. However, these methods often falter in scenes with complex, multi-component morphologies, where fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Deepank Singh , Anurag Nihal , Vedhus Hoskere

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation aims to assign pixel-level labels to images across an unlimited range of classes. Traditional methods address this by sequentially connecting a powerful mask proposal generator, such as the Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minhyeok Lee , Suhwan Cho , Jungho Lee , Sunghun Yang , Heeseung Choi , Ig-Jae Kim , Sangyoun Lee

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

Most of recent attention-guided feature masking distillation methods perform knowledge transfer via global teacher attention maps without delving into fine-grained clues. Instead, performing distillation at finer granularity is conducive to…

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