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Lightweight SED model slashes size for event-based saliency prediction

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Researchers have developed SED, a lightweight network for event-based saliency prediction that significantly reduces model size and parameter count through knowledge distillation and a novel Depthwise Spatio-Temporal Block (DSTconv). This approach drastically cuts down the model size from 180 MB to 0.32 MB and parameter count from 45 million to 81,000, while maintaining or exceeding performance on benchmark datasets like N-DHF1K and N-UCF Sports. The SED model also demonstrates strong generalization capabilities, successfully transferring from synthetic to real-world event data where other models fail. AI

IMPACT This lightweight model could enable more efficient edge AI applications by reducing computational requirements for event-based perception.

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Lightweight SED model slashes size for event-based saliency prediction

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Romaric Mazna, Jean Martinet, Michele Magno ·

    SED:Lightweight Saliency prediction for Event-based data via Distillation

    arXiv:2606.14631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Event-based saliency prediction has gained attention recently, as combining event cameras with saliency estimation can act as an upstream stage that naturally improves the efficiency of downstream eventbased perception at the edge. …

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Michele Magno ·

    SED:Lightweight Saliency prediction for Event-based data via Distillation

    Event-based saliency prediction has gained attention recently, as combining event cameras with saliency estimation can act as an upstream stage that naturally improves the efficiency of downstream eventbased perception at the edge. However, current approaches are either neuromorp…

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