Summary of Spiking Centernet: a Distillation-boosted Spiking Neural Network For Object Detection, by Lennard Bodden et al.
Spiking CenterNet: A Distillation-boosted Spiking Neural Network for Object Detection
by Lennard Bodden, Franziska Schwaiger, Duc Bach Ha, Lars Kreuzberg, Sven Behnke
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are gaining traction as a promising solution for energy-efficient AI at the edge. SNNs process information event-drivenly and have sparse activations, making them well-suited for small, embedded AI applications. This paper proposes Spiking CenterNet, an object detection model that leverages SNNs and M2U-Net-based decoders to detect objects on event data. The proposed model outperforms previous work on the Prophesee GEN1 Automotive Detection Dataset while consuming less than half the energy. Furthermore, knowledge distillation from a non-spiking teacher network is employed to improve performance. This work contributes to the development of spiking object detection by introducing knowledge distillation in this domain. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine AI that’s small, efficient, and can be used for tasks like self-driving cars or climate change monitoring. That’s what Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are all about! They’re a new way to process information that uses less energy and is perfect for tiny devices. In this paper, scientists propose a new AI model called Spiking CenterNet that can detect objects using event data. It’s really good at finding things in car cameras while using much less power than other methods. The researchers also found a way to make the AI even better by learning from another, more powerful AI model. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Knowledge distillation * Object detection
