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We propose DistillNeRF, a self-supervised learning framework addressing the challenge of understanding 3D environments from limited 2D observations in outdoor autonomous driving scenes. Our method is a generalizable feedforward model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Letian Wang , Seung Wook Kim , Jiawei Yang , Cunjun Yu , Boris Ivanovic , Steven L. Waslander , Yue Wang , Sanja Fidler , Marco Pavone , Peter Karkus

With the exponential increase in image data, training an image restoration model is laborious. Dataset distillation is a potential solution to this problem, yet current distillation techniques are a blank canvas in the field of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhuoran Zheng , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Xiuyi Jia

Learning versatile, fine-grained representations from irregular event streams is pivotal yet nontrivial, primarily due to the heavy annotation that hinders scalability in dataset size, semantic richness, and application scope. To mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Zhiwen Chen , Junhui Hou , Zhiyu Zhu , Jinjian Wu , Guangming Shi

This paper presents a groundbreaking multimodal, multi-task, multi-teacher joint-grained knowledge distillation model for visually-rich form document understanding. The model is designed to leverage insights from both fine-grained and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yihao Ding , Lorenzo Vaiani , Caren Han , Jean Lee , Paolo Garza , Josiah Poon , Luca Cagliero

Infrared and visible image fusion plays a critical role in enhancing scene perception by combining complementary information from different modalities. Despite recent advances, achieving high-quality image fusion with lightweight models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yuhao Wang , Lingjuan Miao , Zhiqiang Zhou , Yajun Qiao , Lei Zhang

Knowledge distillation has been applied to image classification successfully. However, object detection is much more sophisticated and most knowledge distillation methods have failed on it. In this paper, we point out that in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Zhendong Yang , Zhe Li , Xiaohu Jiang , Yuan Gong , Zehuan Yuan , Danpei Zhao , Chun Yuan

Recent advances in text-to-3D generation have made significant progress. In particular, with the pretrained diffusion models, existing methods predominantly use Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) to train 3D models such as Neural RaRecent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hangyu Li , Xiangxiang Chu , Dingyuan Shi , Wang Lin

Camera-based temporal 3D object detection has shown impressive results in autonomous driving, with offline models improving accuracy by using future frames. Knowledge distillation (KD) can be an appealing framework for transferring rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haowen Zheng , Hu Zhu , Lu Deng , Weihao Gu , Yang Yang , Yanyan Liang

Data-free knowledge distillation aims to learn a compact student network from a pre-trained large teacher network without using the original training data of the teacher network. Existing collection-based and generation-based methods train…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jialiang Tang , Shuo Chen , Chen Gong

In knowledge distillation, previous feature distillation methods mainly focus on the design of loss functions and the selection of the distilled layers, while the effect of the feature projector between the student and the teacher remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yudong Chen , Sen Wang , Jiajun Liu , Xuwei Xu , Frank de Hoog , Zi Huang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a model-agnostic technique to improve model quality while having a fixed capacity budget. It is a commonly used technique for model compression, where a larger capacity teacher model with better quality is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jiaxi Tang , Rakesh Shivanna , Zhe Zhao , Dong Lin , Anima Singh , Ed H. Chi , Sagar Jain

Benefiting from masked visual modeling, self-supervised video representation learning has achieved remarkable progress. However, existing methods focus on learning representations from scratch through reconstructing low-level features like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Rui Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Lu Yuan , Yu-Gang Jiang

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an important and challenging task in autonomous driving. Recently, there has been a growing interest in cost-effective multi-view camera-based methods without relying on other sensors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Xiaoshuai Hao , Ruikai Li , Hui Zhang , Dingzhe Li , Rong Yin , Sangil Jung , Seung-In Park , ByungIn Yoo , Haimei Zhao , Jing Zhang

Knowledge distillation aims at transferring the knowledge from a large teacher model to a small student model with great improvements of the performance of the student model. Therefore, the student network can replace the teacher network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jinhong Lin , Zhaoyang Li

We propose a novel knowledge distillation approach, CustomKD, that effectively leverages large vision foundation models (LVFMs) to enhance the performance of edge models (e.g., MobileNetV3). Despite recent advancements in LVFMs, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jungsoo Lee , Debasmit Das , Munawar Hayat , Sungha Choi , Kyuwoong Hwang , Fatih Porikli

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance on diverse visual and linguistic tasks, yet they remain fundamentally limited in their understanding of 3D spatial structures. We propose Geometric Distillation, a lightweight,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Seonho Lee , Jiho Choi , Inha Kang , Jiwook Kim , Junsung Park , Hyunjung Shim

Diffusion distillation models effectively accelerate reverse sampling by compressing the process into fewer steps. However, these models still exhibit a performance gap compared to their pre-trained diffusion model counterparts, exacerbated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Geon Yeong Park , Sang Wan Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Despite substantial progress in 3D object detection, advanced 3D detectors often suffer from heavy computation overheads. To this end, we explore the potential of knowledge distillation (KD) for developing efficient 3D object detectors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jihan Yang , Shaoshuai Shi , Runyu Ding , Zhe Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

Diffusion models are a powerful generative framework, but come with expensive inference. Existing acceleration methods often compromise image quality or fail under complex conditioning when operating in an extremely low-step regime. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jonas Kohler , Albert Pumarola , Edgar Schönfeld , Artsiom Sanakoyeu , Roshan Sumbaly , Peter Vajda , Ali Thabet

Recent advances in deep learning has lead to rapid developments in the field of image retrieval. However, the best performing architectures incur significant computational cost. Recent approaches tackle this issue using knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zakaria Laskar , Juho Kannala