Exclusivity-Consistency Regularized Knowledge Distillation for Face Recognition

  • Xiaobo Wang
  • , Tianyu Fu
  • , Shengcai Liao
  • , Shuo Wang
  • , Zhen Lei
  • , Tao Mei

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

46 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Knowledge distillation is an effective tool to compress large pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) or their ensembles into models applicable to mobile and embedded devices. The success of which mainly comes from two aspects: the designed student network and the exploited knowledge. However, current methods usually suffer from the low-capability of mobile-level student network and the unsatisfactory knowledge for distillation. In this paper, we propose a novel position-aware exclusivity to encourage large diversity among different filters of the same layer to alleviate the low-capability of student network. Moreover, we investigate the effect of several prevailing knowledge for face recognition distillation and conclude that the knowledge of feature consistency is more flexible and preserves much more information than others. Experiments on a variety of face recognition benchmarks have revealed the superiority of our method over the state-of-the-arts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2020 - 16th European Conference, 2020, Proceedings
EditorsAndrea Vedaldi, Horst Bischof, Thomas Brox, Jan-Michael Frahm
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages325-342
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9783030585853
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020 - Glasgow, United Kingdom
Duration: Aug 23 2020Aug 28 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12369 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityGlasgow
Period8/23/208/28/20

Keywords

  • Face recognition
  • Feature consistency
  • Knowledge distillation
  • Weight exclusivity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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