Domain Adaptable Fine-Tune Distillation Framework For Advancing Farm Surveillance

In this study, we propose an automated framework for camel farm monitoring, introducing two key contributions: the Unified Auto-Annotation framework and the Fine-Tune Distillation framework. The Unified Auto-Annotation approach combines two models, GroundingDINO (GD), and Segment-Anything-Model (SAM), to automatically annotate raw datasets extracted from surveillance videos. Building upon this foundation, the Fine-Tune Distillation framework conducts fine-tuning of student models using the auto-annotated dataset. This process involves transferring knowledge from a large teacher model to a student model, resembling a variant of Knowledge Distillation. The Fine-Tune Distillation framework aims to be adaptable to specific use cases, enabling the transfer of knowledge from the large models to the small models, making it suitable for domain-specific applications. By leveraging our raw dataset collected from Al-Marmoom Camel Farm in Dubai, UAE, and a pre-trained teacher model, GroundingDINO, the Fine-Tune Distillation framework produces a lightweight deployable model, YOLOv8. This framework demonstrates high performance and computational efficiency, facilitating efficient real-time object detection. Our code is available at \href{https://github.com/Razaimam45/Fine-Tune-Distillation}{https://github.com/Razaimam45/Fine-Tune-Distillation}