Learning efficient detector with semi-supervised adaptive distillation

Shitao Tang, Litong Feng, Wenqi Shao, Zhanghui Kuang, Wayne Zhang, Zheng Lu

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Abstract

Convolutional Neural Networks based object detection techniques produce accurate results but often time consuming. Knowledge distillation has been popular for model compression to speed up. In this paper, we propose a Semi-supervised Adaptive Distillation (SAD) framework to accelerate single-stage detectors while still improving the overall accuracy. We introduce our Adaptive Distillation Loss (ADL) that enables student model to mimic teacher's logits adaptively with more attention paid on two types of hard samples, hard-to-learn samples predicted by teacher model with low certainty and hard-to-mimic samples with a large gap between the teacher's and the student's prediction. We then show that student model can be improved further in the semi-supervised setting with the help of ADL. Our experiments validate that for distillation on unlabeled data. ADL achieves better performance than existing data distillation using both soft and hard targets. On the COCO database, SAD makes a student detector with a backbone of ResNet-50 out-perform its teacher with a backbone of ResNet-101, while the student has half of the teacher's computation complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Event30th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2019 - Cardiff, United Kingdom
Duration: 9 Sept 201912 Sept 2019

Conference

Conference30th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityCardiff
Period9/09/1912/09/19

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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