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In video understanding, most cross-modal knowledge distillation (KD) methods are tailored for classification tasks, focusing on the discriminative representation of the trimmed videos. However, action detection requires not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Rui Dai , Srijan Das , Francois Bremond

Multimodal Visual Object Tracking (VOT) has recently gained significant attention due to its robustness. Early research focused on fully fine-tuning RGB-based trackers, which was inefficient and lacked generalized representation due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xiaojun Hou , Jiazheng Xing , Yijie Qian , Yaowei Guo , Shuo Xin , Junhao Chen , Kai Tang , Mengmeng Wang , Zhengkai Jiang , Liang Liu , Yong Liu

In this paper, we propose a self-supervised RGB-T tracking method. Different from existing deep RGB-T trackers that use a large number of annotated RGB-T image pairs for training, our RGB-T tracker is trained using unlabeled RGB-T video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Xingchen Zhang , Yiannis Demiris

Multi-modal RGB and Depth (RGBD) data are predominant in many domains such as robotics, autonomous driving and remote sensing. The combination of these multi-modal data enhances environmental perception by providing 3D spatial context,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Roger Ferrod , Cássio F. Dantas , Luigi Di Caro , Dino Ienco

Despite the inherent advantages of thermal infrared(TIR) imaging, large-scale data collection and annotation remain a major bottleneck for TIR-based perception. A practical alternative is to synthesize pseudo TIR data via image translation;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Dong-Guw Lee , Tai Hyoung Rhee , Hyunsoo Jang , Young-Sik Shin , Ukcheol Shin , Ayoung Kim

With the development of depth sensors in recent years, RGBD object tracking has received significant attention. Compared with the traditional RGB object tracking, the addition of the depth modality can effectively solve the target and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Shang Gao , Jinyu Yang , Zhe Li , Feng Zheng , Aleš Leonardis , Jingkuan Song

Visual object tracking with RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) spectra available, shorted in RGBT tracking, is a novel and challenging research topic which draws increasing attention nowadays. In this paper, we propose an RGBT tracker which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu

Deep learning achieved great progress recently, however, it is not easy or efficient to further improve its performance by increasing the size of the model. Multi-modal learning can mitigate this challenge by introducing richer and more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cairong Zhao , Yufeng Jin , Zifan Song , Haonan Chen , Duoqian Miao , Guosheng Hu

Object tracking based on the fusion of visible and thermal im-ages, known as RGB-T tracking, has gained increasing atten-tion from researchers in recent years. How to achieve a more comprehensive fusion of information from the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Yang Luo , Xiqing Guo , Hui Feng , Lei Ao

RGB-T tracking leverages the complementary strengths of RGB and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities to address challenging scenarios such as low illumination and adverse weather. However, existing methods often fail to effectively integrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhongxuan Zhang , Bi Zeng , Xinyu Ni , Yimin Du

Compared with visible object tracking, thermal infrared (TIR) object tracking can track an arbitrary target in total darkness since it cannot be influenced by illumination variations. However, there are many unwanted attributes that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Peng Gao , Yipeng Ma , Ke Song , Chao Li , Fei Wang , Liyi Xiao

Knowledge distillation (KD) has been widely studied in unsupervised image Anomaly Detection (AD), but its application to unsupervised multimodal AD remains underexplored. Existing KD-based methods for multimodal AD that use fused multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Xinyue Liu , Jianyuan Wang , Biao Leng , Shuo Zhang

Simultaneously using multimodal inputs from multiple sensors to train segmentors is intuitively advantageous but practically challenging. A key challenge is unimodal bias, where multimodal segmentors over rely on certain modalities, causing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xu Zheng , Haiwei Xue , Jialei Chen , Yibo Yan , Lutao Jiang , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Kailun Yang , Linfeng Zhang , Xuming Hu

This paper presents a novel method for detecting pedestrians under adverse illumination conditions. Our approach relies on a novel cross-modality learning framework and it is based on two main phases. First, given a multimodal dataset, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Dan Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Elisa Ricci , Xiaogang Wang , Nicu Sebe

Cross-modal distillation has been widely used to transfer knowledge across different modalities, enriching the representation of the target unimodal one. Recent studies highly relate the temporal synchronization between vision and sound to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Wenke Xia , Xingjian Li , Andong Deng , Haoyi Xiong , Dejing Dou , Di Hu

Existing cross-modal pedestrian detection (CMPD) employs complementary information from RGB and thermal-infrared (TIR) modalities to detect pedestrians in 24h-surveillance systems.RGB captures rich pedestrian details under daylight, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qian Bie , Xiao Wang , Bin Yang , Zhixi Yu , Jun Chen , Xin Xu

To address the challenge of capturing highly discriminative features in ther-mal infrared (TIR) tracking, we propose a novel Siamese tracker based on cross-channel fine-grained feature learning and progressive fusion. First, we introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ruoyan Xiong , Yuke Hou , Princess Retor Torboh , Hui He , Huanbin Zhang , Yue Zhang , Yanpin Wang , Huipan Guan , Shang Zhang

Person re-identification is a key challenge for surveillance across multiple sensors. Prompted by the advent of powerful deep learning models for visual recognition, and inexpensive RGB-D cameras and sensor-rich mobile robotic platforms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Frank Hafner , Amran Bhuiyan , Julian F. P. Kooij , Eric Granger

Masked autoencoders have become popular training paradigms for self-supervised visual representation learning. These models randomly mask a portion of the input and reconstruct the masked portion according to the target representations. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Xingbin Liu , Jinghao Zhou , Tao Kong , Xianming Lin , Rongrong Ji

Neuromorphic spike data, an upcoming modality with high temporal resolution, has shown promising potential in autonomous driving by mitigating the challenges posed by high-velocity motion blur. However, training the spike depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Jiaming Liu , Qizhe Zhang , Xiaoqi Li , Jianing Li , Guanqun Wang , Ming Lu , Tiejun Huang , Shanghang Zhang