Localization Distillation for Object Detection

Introduction

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@Article{zheng2021LD,
  title={Localization Distillation for Object Detection},
  author= {Zhaohui Zheng, Rongguang Ye, Ping Wang, Jun Wang, Dongwei Ren, Wangmeng Zuo},
  journal={arXiv:2102.12252},
  year={2021}
}

GFocalV1 with LD

Teacher	Student	Training schedule	Mini-batch size	AP (val)	AP50 (val)	AP75 (val)	Config
--	R-18	1x	6	35.8	53.1	38.2
R-101	R-18	1x	6	36.5	52.9	39.3	config
--	R-34	1x	6	38.9	56.6	42.2
R-101	R-34	1x	6	39.8	56.6	43.1	config
--	R-50	1x	6	40.1	58.2	43.1
R-101	R-50	1x	6	41.1	58.7	44.9	config
--	R-101	2x	6	44.6	62.9	48.4
R-101-DCN	R-101	2x	6	45.4	63.1	49.5	config

Note

Meaning of Config name: ld_r18(student model)_gflv1(based on gflv1)_r101(teacher model)_fpn(neck)_coco(dataset)_1x(12 epoch).py