Latent Distillation for Continual Object Detection at the Edge

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Main Authors: Pasti, Francesco, Ceccon, Marina, Pezze, Davide Dalle, Paissan, Francesco, Farella, Elisabetta, Susto, Gian Antonio, Bellotto, Nicola
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author Pasti, Francesco
Ceccon, Marina
Pezze, Davide Dalle
Paissan, Francesco
Farella, Elisabetta
Susto, Gian Antonio
Bellotto, Nicola
author_facet Pasti, Francesco
Ceccon, Marina
Pezze, Davide Dalle
Paissan, Francesco
Farella, Elisabetta
Susto, Gian Antonio
Bellotto, Nicola
contents While numerous methods achieving remarkable performance exist in the Object Detection literature, addressing data distribution shifts remains challenging. Continual Learning (CL) offers solutions to this issue, enabling models to adapt to new data while maintaining performance on previous data. This is particularly pertinent for edge devices, common in dynamic environments like automotive and robotics. In this work, we address the memory and computation constraints of edge devices in the Continual Learning for Object Detection (CLOD) scenario. Specifically, (i) we investigate the suitability of an open-source, lightweight, and fast detector, namely NanoDet, for CLOD on edge devices, improving upon larger architectures used in the literature. Moreover, (ii) we propose a novel CL method, called Latent Distillation~(LD), that reduces the number of operations and the memory required by state-of-the-art CL approaches without significantly compromising detection performance. Our approach is validated using the well-known VOC and COCO benchmarks, reducing the distillation parameter overhead by 74\% and the Floating Points Operations~(FLOPs) by 56\% per model update compared to other distillation methods.
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spellingShingle Latent Distillation for Continual Object Detection at the Edge
Pasti, Francesco
Ceccon, Marina
Pezze, Davide Dalle
Paissan, Francesco
Farella, Elisabetta
Susto, Gian Antonio
Bellotto, Nicola
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
While numerous methods achieving remarkable performance exist in the Object Detection literature, addressing data distribution shifts remains challenging. Continual Learning (CL) offers solutions to this issue, enabling models to adapt to new data while maintaining performance on previous data. This is particularly pertinent for edge devices, common in dynamic environments like automotive and robotics. In this work, we address the memory and computation constraints of edge devices in the Continual Learning for Object Detection (CLOD) scenario. Specifically, (i) we investigate the suitability of an open-source, lightweight, and fast detector, namely NanoDet, for CLOD on edge devices, improving upon larger architectures used in the literature. Moreover, (ii) we propose a novel CL method, called Latent Distillation~(LD), that reduces the number of operations and the memory required by state-of-the-art CL approaches without significantly compromising detection performance. Our approach is validated using the well-known VOC and COCO benchmarks, reducing the distillation parameter overhead by 74\% and the Floating Points Operations~(FLOPs) by 56\% per model update compared to other distillation methods.
title Latent Distillation for Continual Object Detection at the Edge
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01872