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Striking a balance between precision and efficiency presents a prominent challenge in the bird's-eye-view (BEV) 3D object detection. Although previous camera-based BEV methods achieved remarkable performance by incorporating long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haowen Zheng , Dong Cao , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Yang Yang , Yanyan Liang

Knowledge distillation enhances the performance of compact student networks by transferring knowledge from more powerful teacher networks without introducing additional parameters. In the feature space, local regions within an individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Cuipeng Wang , Haipeng Wang

Object detection has achieved remarkable accuracy through deep learning, yet these improvements often come with increased computational cost, limiting deployment on resource-constrained devices. Knowledge Distillation (KD) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mahdi Golizadeh , Nassibeh Golizadeh , Mohammad Ali Keyvanrad , Hossein Shirazi

Due to limitations in data quality, some essential visual tasks are difficult to perform independently. Introducing previously unavailable information to transfer informative dark knowledge has been a common way to solve such hard tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Lingyu Si , Hongwei Dong , Wenwen Qiang , Junzhi Yu , Wenlong Zhai , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu , Fuchun Sun

Deep learning networks are being developed in every stage of the MRI workflow and have provided state-of-the-art results. However, this has come at the cost of increased computation requirement and storage. Hence, replacing the networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Balamurali Murugesan , Sricharan Vijayarangan , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

In this work, we propose Mutual Information Maximization Knowledge Distillation (MIMKD). Our method uses a contrastive objective to simultaneously estimate and maximize a lower bound on the mutual information of local and global feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Aman Shrivastava , Yanjun Qi , Vicente Ordonez

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a promising approach for unsupervised Anomaly Detection (AD). However, the student network's over-generalization often diminishes the crucial representation differences between teacher and student in anomalous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xinyue Liu , Jianyuan Wang , Biao Leng , Shuo Zhang

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

Knowledge Distillation is crucial for optimizing face recognition models for deployment in computationally limited settings, such as edge devices. Traditional KD methods, such as Raw L2 Feature Distillation or Feature Consistency loss,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Durgesh Mishra , Rishabh Uikey

Knowledge distillation has become widely recognized for its ability to transfer knowledge from a large teacher network to a compact and more streamlined student network. Traditional knowledge distillation methods primarily follow a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Chaomin Shen , Yaomin Huang , Haokun Zhu , Jinsong Fan , Guixu Zhang

Large-scale language models have recently demonstrated impressive empirical performance. Nevertheless, the improved results are attained at the price of bigger models, more power consumption, and slower inference, which hinder their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Kevin J Liang , Weituo Hao , Dinghan Shen , Yufan Zhou , Weizhu Chen , Changyou Chen , Lawrence Carin

Image forgery detection and localization (IFDL) is of vital importance as forged images can spread misinformation that poses potential threats to our daily lives. However, previous methods still struggled to effectively handle forged images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zeqin Yu , Jiangqun Ni , Jian Zhang , Haoyi Deng , Yuzhen Lin

Knowledge Distillation (KD) emerges as one of the most promising compression technologies to run advanced deep neural networks on resource-limited devices. In order to train a small network (student) under the guidance of a large network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Yi Guo , Yiqian He , Xiaoyang Li , Haotong Qin , Van Tung Pham , Yang Zhang , Shouda Liu

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

In this paper, we propose the first self-distillation framework for general object detection, termed LGD (Label-Guided self-Distillation). Previous studies rely on a strong pretrained teacher to provide instructive knowledge that could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Peizhen Zhang , Zijian Kang , Tong Yang , Xiangyu Zhang , Nanning Zheng , Jian Sun

Data-free knowledge distillation (DFKD) has emerged as a pivotal technique in the domain of model compression, substantially reducing the dependency on the original training data. Nonetheless, conventional DFKD methods that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Muquan Li , Dongyang Zhang , Tao He , Xiurui Xie , Yuan-Fang Li , Ke Qin

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective framework that aims to transfer meaningful information from a large teacher to a smaller student. Generally, KD often involves how to define and transfer knowledge. Previous KD methods often focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chuanguang Yang , Zhulin An , Linhang Cai , Yongjun Xu

Monocular depth estimation is challenging due to its inherent ambiguity and ill-posed nature, yet it is quite important to many applications. While recent works achieve limited accuracy by designing increasingly complicated networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zizhang Wu , Zhuozheng Li , Zhi-Gang Fan , Yunzhe Wu , Xiaoquan Wang , Rui Tang , Jian Pu

Regarding intelligent transportation systems, low-bitrate transmission via lossy point cloud compression is vital for facilitating real-time collaborative perception among connected agents, such as vehicles and infrastructures, under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hao Jing , Anhong Wang , Yifan Zhang , Donghan Bu , Junhui Hou

Vision-based crack detection faces deployment challenges due to the size of robust models and edge device limitations. These can be addressed with lightweight models trained with knowledge distillation (KD). However, state-of-the-art (SOTA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zhaohui Chen , Elyas Asadi Shamsabadi , Sheng Jiang , Luming Shen , Daniel Dias-da-Costa