Congratulations to research fellow Ms. Ye Jingwen, supervised by Assistant Professor Wang Xinchao from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, won the Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP).
The IEEE VCIP conference has served as a premier forum for the exchange of fundamental and applied research in the field of visual communications and image processing.
Ms. Ye’s paper entitled “Flocking Birds of a Feather Together: Dual-step GAN Distillation via Realer-Fake Samples” proposes a practical and very effective approach for distilling GAN models, so as to produce competent student models that come with smaller sizes. This seemingly simple strategy turns out highly effective in terms of exploring output space structure and further the knowledge transfer. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method can be easily generalized and demonstrate the learned portable generator produces competitive or even better results both in quality and quantity.