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Although deep convolution neural networks (DCNN) have achieved excellent performance in human pose estimation, these networks often have a large number of parameters and computations, leading to the slow inference speed. For this issue, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Zhong-Qiu Zhao , Yao Gao , Yuchen Ge , Weidong Tian

Real-world object detection models should be cheap and accurate. Knowledge distillation (KD) can boost the accuracy of a small, cheap detection model by leveraging useful information from a larger teacher model. However, a key challenge is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Chenhongyi Yang , Mateusz Ochal , Amos Storkey , Elliot J. Crowley

Lifelong learning aims to preserve knowledge acquired from previous tasks while incorporating knowledge from a sequence of new tasks. However, most prior work explores only streams of homogeneous tasks (\textit{e.g.}, only classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xuerui Zhang , Xuehao Wang , Zhan Zhuang , Linglan Zhao , Ziyue Li , Xinmin Zhang , Zhihuan Song , Yu Zhang

Several methods of knowledge distillation have been developed for neural network compression. While they all use the KL divergence loss to align the soft outputs of the student model more closely with that of the teacher, the various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Huan Wang , Suhas Lohit , Michael Jones , Yun Fu

Feature distillation makes the student mimic the intermediate features of the teacher. Nearly all existing feature-distillation methods use L2 distance or its slight variants as the distance metric between teacher and student features.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Dongyang Liu , Meina Kan , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Recognizing discriminative details such as eyes and beaks is important for distinguishing fine-grained classes since they have similar overall appearances. In this regard, we introduce Task Discrepancy Maximization (TDM), a simple module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 SuBeen Lee , WonJun Moon , Jae-Pil Heo

Knowledge distillation becomes a de facto standard to improve the performance of small neural networks. Most of the previous works propose to regress the representational features from the teacher to the student in a one-to-one spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sihao Lin , Hongwei Xie , Bing Wang , Kaicheng Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Xiaodan Liang , Gang Wang

Knowledge distillation aims to enhance the performance of a lightweight student model by exploiting the knowledge from a pre-trained cumbersome teacher model. However, in the traditional knowledge distillation, teacher predictions are only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Shiya Luo , Defang Chen , Can Wang

Multi-domain fake news detection aims to identify whether various news from different domains is real or fake and has become urgent and important. However, existing methods are dedicated to improving the overall performance of fake news…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Jiayang Li , Xuan Feng , Tianlong Gu , Liang Chang

In this paper, we focus on developing knowledge distillation (KD) for compact 3D detectors. We observe that off-the-shelf KD methods manifest their efficacy only when the teacher model and student counterpart share similar intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Mingbao Lin , Jihao Yin , Baochang Zhang , Xianbin Cao

Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Xiaodong Cun , Chi-Man Pun

Although multi-view 3D object detection based on the Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) paradigm has garnered widespread attention as an economical and deployment-friendly perception solution for autonomous driving, there is still a performance gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zheng Jiang , Jinqing Zhang , Yanan Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Zhenghui Hu , Baohui Wang , Yunhong Wang

Deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained edge devices remains a major challenge in smart agriculture due to the trade-off between computational efficiency and recognition accuracy. To address this challenge, this study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Phi-Hung Hoang , Nam-Thuan Trinh , Van-Manh Tran , Thi-Thu-Hong Phan

Traditional knowledge distillation (KD) relies on a proficient teacher trained on the target task, which is not always available. In this setting, cross-task distillation can be used, enabling the use of any teacher model trained on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Dylan Auty , Roy Miles , Benedikt Kolbeinsson , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Distilling the structured information captured in feature maps has contributed to improved results for object detection tasks, but requires careful selection of baseline architectures and substantial pre-training. Self-distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jieren Deng , Xin Zhou , Hao Tian , Zhihong Pan , Derek Aguiar

Due to the data imbalance and the diversity of defects, student-teacher networks (S-T) are favored in unsupervised anomaly detection, which explores the discrepancy in feature representation derived from the knowledge distillation process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Liyi Yao , Shaobing Gao

Deep neural networks based methods have been proved to achieve outstanding performance on object detection and classification tasks. Despite significant performance improvement, due to the deep structures, they still require prohibitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Mohammad Farhadi , Yezhou Yang

Current knowledge distillation (KD) methods primarily focus on transferring various structured knowledge and designing corresponding optimization goals to encourage the student network to imitate the output of the teacher network. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Dong Liang , Yue Sun , Yun Du , Songcan Chen , Sheng-Jun Huang

Most existing salient object detection (SOD) models are difficult to apply due to the complex and huge model structures. Although some lightweight models are proposed, the accuracy is barely satisfactory. In this paper, we design a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jin Zhang , Qiuwei Liang , Yanjiao Shi

Recently, there have been significant improvements in the accuracy of CNN models for semantic segmentation. However, these models are often heavy and suffer from low inference speed, which limits their practical application. To address this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Minglong Li , Lianlei Shan , Weiqiang Wang , Ke Lv , Bin Luo , Si-Bao Chen