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The inevitable modality imperfection in real-world scenarios poses significant challenges for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA). While existing methods tailor reconstruction or joint representation learning strategies to restore missing…

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In the health domain, decisions are often based on different data modalities. Thus, when creating prediction models, multimodal fusion approaches that can extract and combine relevant features from different data modalities, can be highly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mafalda Malafaia , Thalea Schlender , Peter A. N. Bosman , Tanja Alderliesten

This study introduces a novel multimodal food recognition framework that effectively combines visual and textual modalities to enhance classification accuracy and robustness. The proposed approach employs a dynamic multimodal fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Prateek Mittal , Puneet Goyal , Joohi Chauhan

Multi-modal image fusion (MMIF) integrates valuable information from different modality images into a fused one. However, the fusion of multiple visible images with different focal regions and infrared images is a unprecedented challenge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Tao Ye , Xiaoqi Cheng , Wuyang Liu , Haishu Tan

To properly assist humans in their needs, human activity recognition (HAR) systems need the ability to fuse information from multiple modalities. Our hypothesis is that multimodal sensors, visual and non-visual tend to provide complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Hyeongju Choi , Apoorva Beedu , Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa

Multimodal sensors provide complementary information to develop accurate machine-learning methods for human activity recognition (HAR), but introduce significantly higher computational load, which reduces efficiency. This paper proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ziqi Gao , Yuntao Wang , Jianguo Chen , Junliang Xing , Shwetak Patel , Xin Liu , Yuanchun Shi

Multimodal semantic communication has great potential to enhance downstream task performance by integrating complementary information across modalities. This paper introduces ProMSC-MIS, a novel Prompt-based Multimodal Semantic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Haoshuo Zhang , Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao

Related tasks often have inter-dependence on each other and perform better when solved in a joint framework. In this paper, we present a deep multi-task learning framework that jointly performs sentiment and emotion analysis both. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Md Shad Akhtar , Dushyant Singh Chauhan , Deepanway Ghosal , Soujanya Poria , Asif Ekbal , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

This work focuses on learning useful and robust deep world models using multiple, possibly unreliable, sensors. We find that current methods do not sufficiently encourage a shared representation between modalities; this can cause poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Kaiqi Chen , Yong Lee , Harold Soh

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) aims to infer human sentiment by integrating information from multiple modalities such as text, audio, and video. In real-world scenarios, however, the presence of missing modalities and noisy signals…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yan Zhuang , Minhao Liu , Yanru Zhang , Jiawen Deng , Fuji Ren

Multimodal fusion integrates the complementary information present in multiple modalities and has gained much attention recently. Most existing fusion approaches either learn a fixed fusion strategy during training and inference, or are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Jinhong Ni , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Multimodal learning has seen great success mining data features from multiple modalities with remarkable model performance improvement. Meanwhile, federated learning (FL) addresses the data sharing problem, enabling privacy-preserved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Rongyu Zhang , Xiaowei Chi , Guiliang Liu , Wenyi Zhang , Yuan Du , Fangxin Wang

Autonomous driving holds transformative potential but remains fundamentally constrained by the limited perception and isolated decision-making with standalone intelligence. While recent multi-agent approaches introduce cooperation, they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ziyi Song , Chen Xia , Chenbing Wang , Haibao Yu , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Image fusion integrates complementary information from different modalities to generate high-quality fused images, thereby enhancing downstream tasks such as object detection and semantic segmentation. Unlike task-specific techniques that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yingying Wang , Rongjin Zhuang , Hui Zheng , Xuanhua He , Ke Cao , Xiaotong Tu , Xinghao Ding

Multi-modality imaging is widely used in clinical practice and biomedical research to gain a comprehensive understanding of an imaging subject. Currently, multi-modality imaging is accomplished by post hoc fusion of independently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Lingting Zhu , Yizheng Chen , Lianli Liu , Lei Xing , Lequan Yu

To improve the prediction of cancer survival using whole-slide images and transcriptomics data, it is crucial to capture both modality-shared and modality-specific information. However, multimodal frameworks often entangle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Aniek Eijpe , Soufyan Lakbir , Melis Erdal Cesur , Sara P. Oliveira , Sanne Abeln , Wilson Silva

Sensor-aided beamforming reduces the overheads associated with beam training in millimeter-wave (mmWave) multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) communication systems. Most prior work, though, neglects the challenges associated with establishing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Kartik Patel , Robert W. Heath

While multimodal fusion has been extensively studied in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA), the role of fusion depth and multimodal capacity allocation remains underexplored. In this work, we position fusion depth, scalability, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Efthymios Georgiou , Vassilis Katsouros , Yannis Avrithis , Alexandros Potamianos

Multimodal sentiment analysis in federated learning environments faces significant challenges due to missing modalities, heterogeneous data distributions, and unreliable client updates. Existing federated approaches often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xianxun Zhu , Zezhong Sun , Imad Rida , Erik Cambria , Junqi Su , Rui Wang , Hui Chen

With the rapid rise of social media and Internet culture, memes have become a popular medium for expressing emotional tendencies. This has sparked growing interest in Meme Emotion Understanding (MEU), which aims to classify the emotional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yi Shi , Wenlong Meng , Zhenyuan Guo , Chengkun Wei , Wenzhi Chen