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Multi-modal learning relates information across observation modalities of the same physical phenomenon to leverage complementary information. Most multi-modal machine learning methods require that all the modalities used for training are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Learning based on multimodal data has attracted increasing interest recently. While a variety of sensory modalities can be collected for training, not all of them are always available in development scenarios, which raises the challenge to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shicai Wei , Yang Luo , Chunbo Luo

In the surveillance and defense domain, multi-target detection and classification (MTD) is considered essential yet challenging due to heterogeneous inputs from diverse data sources and the computational complexity of algorithms designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ngoc Tuyen Do , Tri Nhu Do

Multimodal learning aims to build models that can process and relate information from multiple modalities. Despite years of development in this field, it still remains challenging to design a unified network for processing various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Yiyuan Zhang , Kaixiong Gong , Kaipeng Zhang , Hongsheng Li , Yu Qiao , Wanli Ouyang , Xiangyu Yue

Research on multi-modal learning dominantly aligns the modalities in a unified space at training, and only a single one is taken for prediction at inference. However, for a real machine, e.g., a robot, sensors could be added or removed at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xu Zheng , Dahun Kim , Lin Wang

Multimodal object detection has attracted significant attention in both academia and industry for its enhanced robustness. Although numerous studies have focused on improving modality fusion strategies, most neglect fusion degradation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 YiKang Shao , Tao Shi

Traditional multimodal methods often assume static modality quality, which limits their adaptability in dynamic real-world scenarios. Thus, dynamical multimodal methods are proposed to assess modality quality and adjust their contribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Shicai Wei , Kaijie Zhang , Luyi Chen , Tao He , Guiduo Duan

This paper explores the tasks of leveraging auxiliary modalities which are only available at training to enhance multimodal representation learning through cross-modal Knowledge Distillation (KD). The widely adopted mutual information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Mengxi Chen , Linyu Xing , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang

Developing effective multimodal data fusion strategies has become increasingly essential for improving the predictive power of statistical machine learning methods across a wide range of applications, from autonomous driving to medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Ziyi Liang , Annie Qu , Babak Shahbaba

The focal point of egocentric video understanding is modelling hand-object interactions. Standard models -- CNNs, Vision Transformers, etc. -- which receive RGB frames as input perform well, however, their performance improves further by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Gorjan Radevski , Dusan Grujicic , Matthew Blaschko , Marie-Francine Moens , Tinne Tuytelaars

Multimodal transfer learning aims to transform pretrained representations of diverse modalities into a common domain space for effective multimodal fusion. However, conventional systems are typically built on the assumption that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yanan Wang , Donghuo Zeng , Shinya Wada , Satoshi Kurihara

Learning joint embedding space for various modalities is of vital importance for multimodal fusion. Mainstream modality fusion approaches fail to achieve this goal, leaving a modality gap which heavily affects cross-modal fusion. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Sijie Mai , Haifeng Hu , Songlong Xing

While the field of multi-modal learning keeps growing fast, the deficiency of the standard joint training paradigm has become clear through recent studies. They attribute the sub-optimal performance of the jointly trained model to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Hong Li , Xingyu Li , Pengbo Hu , Yinuo Lei , Chunxiao Li , Yi Zhou

Multimodal learning, which integrates data from diverse sensory modes, plays a pivotal role in artificial intelligence. However, existing multimodal learning methods often struggle with challenges where some modalities appear more dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaohui Zhang , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Multimodal networks have demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over their unimodal counterparts. Existing multimodal networks are designed in a multi-branch fashion that, due to the reliance on fusion strategies, exhibit…

This study proposes an innovative multimodal fusion model based on a teacher-student architecture to enhance the accuracy of depression classification. Our designed model addresses the limitations of traditional methods in feature fusion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Lindy Gan , Yifan Huang , Xiaoyang Gao , Jiaming Tan , Fujun Zhao , Tao Yang

Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heqing Zou , Meng Shen , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

In this paper, we tackle two challenges in multimodal learning for visual recognition: 1) when missing-modality occurs either during training or testing in real-world situations; and 2) when the computation resources are not available to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Yi-Lun Lee , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Chen-Yu Lee

Multi-modal learning has shown exceptional performance in various tasks, especially in medical applications, where it integrates diverse medical information for comprehensive diagnostic evidence. However, there still are several challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Lin Fan , Yafei Ou , Cenyang Zheng , Pengyu Dai , Tamotsu Kamishima , Masayuki Ikebe , Kenji Suzuki , Xun Gong

Multimodal learning aims to leverage information from diverse data modalities to achieve more comprehensive performance. However, conventional multimodal models often suffer from modality imbalance, where one or a few modalities dominate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mohammed Rakib , Arunkumar Bagavathi