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Cross-Modality Knowledge Distillation Network for Monocular 3D Object Detection

14 Nov 2022arXiv:2211.07171archive 2025-07-28

Yu Hong, Hang Dai, Yong Ding

Leveraging LiDAR-based detectors or real LiDAR point data to guide monocular 3D detection has brought significant improvement, e.g., Pseudo-LiDAR methods. However, the existing methods usually apply non-end-to-end training strategies and insufficiently leverage the LiDAR information, where the rich potential of the LiDAR data has not been well exploited. In this paper, we propose the Cross-Modality Knowledge Distillation (CMKD) network for monocular 3D detection to efficiently and directly transfer the knowledge from LiDAR modality to image modality on both features and responses. Moreover, we further extend CMKD as a semi-supervised training framework by distilling knowledge from large-scale unlabeled data and significantly boost the performance. Until submission, CMKD ranks 1ˢᵗ among the monocular 3D detectors with publications on both KITTI test set and Waymo val set with significant performance gains compared to previous state-of-the-art methods.

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3D Object DetectionKnowledge DistillationMonocular 3D Object DetectionObject Detectionobject-detection

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Cars Easy CMKD AP Easy 28.55 #2 of 5 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Cars Hard CMKD AP Hard 16.77 #2 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Cyclist Easy CMKD AP Easy 12.52 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Cyclist Hard CMKD AP Hard 6.34 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Cyclist Moderate CMKD AP Medium 6.67 #1 of 2 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Pedestrian Easy CMKD AP Easy 13.94 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Pedestrian Hard CMKD AP Hard 7.42 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Monocular 3D Object Detection KITTI Pedestrian Moderate CMKD AP Medium 8.79 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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Knowledge Distillation

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