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Multi-modal fusion has shown initial promising results for object detection of autonomous driving perception. However, many existing fusion schemes do not consider the quality of each fusion input and may suffer from adverse conditions on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yang Lou , Qun Song , Qian Xu , Rui Tan , Jianping Wang

Current large vision-language models (VLMs) often encounter challenges such as insufficient capabilities of a single visual component and excessively long visual tokens. These issues can limit the model's effectiveness in accurately…

Modality fusion is a cornerstone of multimodal learning, enabling information integration from diverse data sources. However, vanilla fusion methods are limited by (1) inability to account for heterogeneous interactions between modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jiayi Xin , Sukwon Yun , Jie Peng , Inyoung Choi , Jenna L. Ballard , Tianlong Chen , Qi Long

Multi-view cooperative perception and multimodal fusion are essential for reliable 3D spatiotemporal understanding in autonomous driving, especially under occlusions, limited viewpoints, and communication delays in V2X scenarios. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Zhenwei Yang , Yibo Ai , Weidong Zhang

Learning effective fusion of multi-modality features is at the heart of visual question answering. We propose a novel method of dynamically fusing multi-modal features with intra- and inter-modality information flow, which alternatively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Gao Peng , Zhengkai Jiang , Haoxuan You , Pan Lu , Steven Hoi , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

Object detection is an essential task for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and changing environments. A robot should be able to detect objects in the presence of sensor noise that can be induced by changing lighting conditions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Oier Mees , Andreas Eitel , Wolfram Burgard

Information inside visual and LiDAR data is well complementary derived from the fine-grained texture of images and massive geometric information in point clouds. However, it remains challenging to explore effective visual-LiDAR fusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Jiuming Liu , Dong Zhuo , Zhiheng Feng , Siting Zhu , Chensheng Peng , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

While multi-modal 3D semantic occupancy prediction typically enhances robustness by fusing camera and LiDAR inputs, its effectiveness is fundamentally constrained by environmental variability. Specifically, camera sensors suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 A. Enes Doruk , Abdelaziz Hussein , Hasan F. Ates

We propose a fixed-lag smoother-based sensor fusion architecture to leverage the complementary benefits of range-based sensors and visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for localization. We use two fixed-lag smoothers (FLS) to decouple accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Abhishek Goudar , Wenda Zhao , Angela P. Schoellig

6D object pose estimation is widely applied in robotic tasks such as grasping and manipulation. Prior methods using RGB-only images are vulnerable to heavy occlusion and poor illumination, so it is important to complement them with depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yi Cheng , Hongyuan Zhu , Ying Sun , Cihan Acar , Wei Jing , Yan Wu , Liyuan Li , Cheston Tan , Joo-Hwee Lim

Multimodal medical imaging plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis and research, as it combines information from various imaging modalities to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the underlying pathology. Recently, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yihao Li , Mostafa El Habib Daho , Pierre-Henri Conze , Rachid Zeghlache , Hugo Le Boité , Ramin Tadayoni , Béatrice Cochener , Mathieu Lamard , Gwenolé Quellec

Image fusion in visual sensor networks (VSNs) aims to combine information from multiple images of the same scene in order to transform a single image with more information. Image fusion methods based on discrete cosine transform (DCT) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Hadi Seyedarabi

Multimodal learning from document data has achieved great success lately as it allows to pre-train semantically meaningful features as a prior into a learnable downstream task. In this paper, we approach the document classification problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Souhail Bakkali , Zuheng Ming , Mickael Coustaty , Marçal Rusiñol , Oriol Ramos Terrades

Motion estimation approaches typically employ sensor fusion techniques, such as the Kalman Filter, to handle individual sensor failures. More recently, deep learning-based fusion approaches have been proposed, increasing the performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Nimet Kaygusuz , Oscar Mendez , Richard Bowden

Autonomous driving necessitates advanced object detection techniques that integrate information from multiple modalities to overcome the limitations associated with single-modal approaches. The challenges of aligning diverse data in early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Qihang Yang , Yang Zhao , Hong Cheng

Late fusion multi-view clustering (LFMVC) has become a rapidly growing class of methods in the multi-view clustering (MVC) field, owing to its excellent computational speed and clustering performance. One bottleneck faced by existing late…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiyuan Ou , Pei Zhang , Sihang Zhou , En Zhu

The construction of models for video action classification progresses rapidly. However, the performance of those models can still be easily improved by ensembling with the same models trained on different modalities (e.g. Optical flow).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Stepan Komkov , Maksim Dzabraev , Aleksandr Petiushko

Spatio-temporal localization is vital for precise interactions across diverse domains, from biological research to autonomous navigation and interactive interfaces. Current video-based approaches, while proficient in tracking, lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ghazi Shazan Ahmad , Ahmed Heakl , Hanan Gani , Abdelrahman Shaker , Zhiqiang Shen , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Salman Khan

The vanilla fusion methods still dominate a large percentage of mainstream audio-visual tasks. However, the effectiveness of vanilla fusion from a theoretical perspective is still worth discussing. Thus, this paper reconsiders the signal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Peiwen Sun , Yifan Zhang , Zishan Liu , Donghao Chen , Honggang Zhang

Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for accurate 3D object detection in autonomous driving, with cameras and LiDAR being the most commonly used sensors. However, existing methods perform sensor fusion in a single view by projecting features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rohit Mohan , Daniele Cattaneo , Florian Drews , Abhinav Valada