Fast-HaMeR: Boosting Hand Mesh Reconstruction using Knowledge Distillation

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• Using lightweight backbones that are 35% the size of the original HaMeR model achieves 1.5x faster inference speed while maintaining similar performance quality with only a 0.4mm accuracy difference.result 95%
• Output-level distillation notably improves student model performance in hand mesh reconstruction.method 90%
• Feature-level distillation proves more effective for higher-capacity student models in hand mesh reconstruction.method 90%
• The approach replaces HaMeR's original ViT-H backbone with lighter alternatives including MobileNet, MobileViT, ConvNeXt, and ResNet.technical 95%
• The method enables efficient real-world applications on low-power devices like headsets, smartphones, and embedded systems.market 85%
• Most state-of-the-art hand reconstruction methods rely on heavy models that limit use on resource-constrained devices.limitation 90%
• The approach combines lightweight neural networks with Knowledge Distillation to accelerate complex 3D hand reconstruction models.method 95%
• The method focuses primarily on boosting the HaMeR model, which is currently the leading method in terms of reconstruction accuracy.technical 90%

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