2 papers
cs.CV2026
FlexPooling with Simple Auxiliary Classifiers in Deep Networks
Muhammad Ali, Omar Alsuwaidi, Salman Khan
In computer vision, the basic pipeline of most convolutional neural networks consists of multiple feature extraction layers, where the input signal is downsampled to a lower resolu…
cs.CV2026
The Surprising Effectiveness of Canonical Knowledge Distillation for Semantic Segmentation
Muhammad Ali, Kevin Alexander Laube, Madan Ravi Ganesh +3
Recent knowledge distillation (KD) methods for semantic segmentation introduce increasingly complex hand-crafted objectives, yet are typically evaluated under fixed iteration sched…