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HVDistill: Transferring Knowledge from Images to Point Clouds via Unsupervised Hybrid-View Distillation

18 Mar 2024arXiv:2403.11817archive 2025-07-28

Sha Zhang, Jiajun Deng, Lei Bai, Houqiang Li, Wanli Ouyang, Yanyong Zhang

We present a hybrid-view-based knowledge distillation framework, termed HVDistill, to guide the feature learning of a point cloud neural network with a pre-trained image network in an unsupervised man- ner. By exploiting the geometric relationship between RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors, the correspondence between the two modalities based on both image- plane view and bird-eye view can be established, which facilitates representation learning. Specifically, the image-plane correspondences can be simply ob- tained by projecting the point clouds, while the bird- eye-view correspondences can be achieved by lifting pixels to the 3D space with the predicted depths un- der the supervision of projected point clouds. The image teacher networks provide rich semantics from the image-plane view and meanwhile acquire geometric information from the bird-eye view. Indeed, image features from the two views naturally comple- ment each other and together can ameliorate the learned feature representation of the point cloud stu- dent networks. Moreover, with a self-supervised pre- trained 2D network, HVDistill requires neither 2D nor 3D annotations. We pre-train our model on nuScenes dataset and transfer it to several downstream tasks on nuScenes, SemanticKITTI, and KITTI datasets for evaluation. Extensive experimental results show that our method achieves consistent improvements over the baseline trained from scratch and significantly out- performs the existing schemes. Codes are available at git@github.com:zhangsha1024/HVDistill.git.

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