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New FD-CanKD framework enhances compact object detector accuracy

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Researchers have developed a new knowledge distillation framework called FD-CanKD, designed to improve the accuracy of compact object detectors without increasing their parameter count. This method transfers knowledge from a larger teacher model to a smaller student model at multiple levels: prediction, context, and frequency. Experiments on the COCO dataset demonstrated that FD-CanKD can significantly boost a compact detector's performance, achieving a mean average precision of 48.87 mAP50:95 after fine-tuning, while the student model remains unchanged in size post-training. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · YoungJae Cheong, Jhonghyun An ·

    FD-CanKD: Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Attention Distillation as a Refinement Prior for Compact Object Detectors

    arXiv:2608.18590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compact object detectors are suitable for resource-constrained visual perception, but their limited representation capacity creates an accuracy gap relative to large models. Conventional detector distillation often relies on predict…

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