Summary of Dual-student Knowledge Distillation Networks For Unsupervised Anomaly Detection, by Liyi Yao et al.
Dual-Student Knowledge Distillation Networks for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
by Liyi Yao, Shaobing Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 1 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed dual-student knowledge distillation (DSKD) architecture addresses the instability issue in student-teacher networks (S-T) for unsupervised anomaly detection. By using two student networks with identical structures but inverted scales, DSKD enhances the distillation effect and introduces diversity for anomaly representation. The framework employs a pyramid matching mode to perform knowledge distillation on multi-scale feature maps and facilitates interaction between the two students through a deep feature embedding module. Classification is done by measuring the discrepancy between teacher and student output feature maps, generating pixel-wise anomaly segmentation maps. Experimental results demonstrate DSKD’s exceptional performance on small models like ResNet18 and improved vanilla S-T networks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to find unusual data points in images. It uses two “students” that learn from a shared teacher. The students have the same shape but are looking at the image from opposite directions. This helps them work together better to identify anomalies. To make it even more powerful, the system looks at features at different scales and shares information between the students. This leads to very good results on three benchmark datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Anomaly detection » Classification » Distillation » Embedding » Knowledge distillation » Unsupervised
