MobileDA: Toward Edge-Domain Adaptation
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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant advances in computer vision and sensor-based smart sensing. DNNs achieve prominent results based on standard data sets and powerful servers, whereas, in real applications with domain-shift data and resource-constrained environments such as Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in the edge computing, DNNs are likely to have degraded performance in terms of accuracy and efficiency. To this end, we develop the MobileDA framework that learns transferable features while keeping the simple structure of the deep model. Our method allows a novel teacher network trained in the server to distill the knowledge for a student network running in the edge device, which is achieved by a cross-domain distillation. Leveraging unlabeled data in the new environment, our student model amends the feature learning to be domain invariant, then being our objective model running in the edge device. Our approach is evaluated on a challenging IoT-based WiFi gesture recognition scenario, and three classic visual adaptation benchmarks. The empirical studies corroborate the effectiveness of distillation for domain transfer, and the overall results show that our model achieves state-of-the-art performance merely using a simple network.
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- Authors
- Yang, J., Zou, H., Cao, S., Chen, Z., & Xie, L.
- Affiliations
- Nanyang Technological University (SG)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Agency for Science, Technology and Research (SG)
- Venue
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal
- Published
- 2020-08
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 6909-6918
- ISSN
- 2327-4662 (ISSN-L)
- 2372-2541
- OpenAlex
- W3008383986
- Cited by
- 67
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 8
- FWCI
- 4.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal (publishedVersion)
- DR-NTU (Nanyang Technological University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Education of Republic of Singapore (MoE Tier 1 RG72/19)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Keywords
- knowledge distillation, teacher-student models, domain shift, unlabeled data, domain-invariant representation learning, Internet of Things, resource-constrained edge devices, visual domain adaptation
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