BenthicDINO: Physics-Informed Self-Distillation for View-Invariant Side-Scan Sonar Representations
A physics-informed self-distillation framework built upon the DINOv3 architecture utilizing a ConvNeXt-v2-Tiny backbone to maximize data efficiency and enforces view-invariance, and proposes a dense, hierarchical feature fusion strategy across all four network stages to preserve fine-grained sediment details alongside...