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This study aims to address the problem of incomplete information in unimodal images for semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. Existing multimodal fusion methods suffer from limited capability in discriminative modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuchan Jie , Yushen Xu , Xiaosong Li , Huafeng Li , Haishu Tan , Feiping Nie

Object detection in Remote Sensing Images (RSI) is a critical task for numerous applications in Earth Observation (EO). Differing from object detection in natural images, object detection in remote sensing images faces challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Bissmella Bahaduri , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Anissa Mokraou

Multimodal learning has been lacking principled ways of combining information from different modalities and learning a low-dimensional manifold of meaningful representations. We study multimodal learning and sensor fusion from a latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Lijiang Guo

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prominent backbone for computer vision. For more efficient ViTs, recent works lessen the quadratic cost of the self-attention layer by pruning or fusing the redundant tokens. However, these works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Sanghyeok Lee , Joonmyung Choi , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful backbones in computer vision, outperforming many traditional CNNs. However, their computational overhead, largely attributed to the self-attention mechanism, makes deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Minchul Kim , Shangqian Gao , Yen-Chang Hsu , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Multi-modal fusion of sensors is a commonly used approach to enhance the performance of odometry estimation, which is also a fundamental module for mobile robots. However, the question of \textit{how to perform fusion among different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Leyuan Sun , Guanqun Ding , Yue Qiu , Yusuke Yoshiyasu , Fumio Kanehiro

Multi-modal 3D object detection has received growing attention as the information from different sensors like LiDAR and cameras are complementary. Most fusion methods for 3D detection rely on an accurate alignment and calibration between 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Zhe Liu , Xiaoqing Ye , Zhikang Zou , Xinwei He , Xiao Tan , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Xiang Bai

While Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in various computer vision applications, post-hoc explanations of their internal mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Vision Transformers extract visual information by representing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Junyi Wu , Bin Duan , Weitai Kang , Hao Tang , Yan Yan

Multimodal pathological images are usually in clinical diagnosis, but computer vision-based multimodal image-assisted diagnosis faces challenges with modality fusion, especially in the absence of expert-annotated data. To achieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Qinghua Lin , Guang-Hai Liu , Zuoyong Li , Yang Li , Yuting Jiang , Xiang Wu

Recently, multi-modality scene perception tasks, e.g., image fusion and scene understanding, have attracted widespread attention for intelligent vision systems. However, early efforts always consider boosting a single task unilaterally and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Guanyao Wu , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Vision encoders serve as the cornerstone of multimodal understanding. Single-encoder architectures like CLIP exhibit inherent constraints in generalizing across diverse multimodal tasks, while recent multi-encoder fusion methods introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuchen Liu , Yaoming Wang , Bowen Shi , Xiaopeng Zhang , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Multimodal fusion is considered a key step in multimodal tasks such as sentiment analysis, emotion detection, question answering, and others. Most of the recent work on multimodal fusion does not guarantee the fidelity of the multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Navonil Majumder , Soujanya Poria , Gangeshwar Krishnamurthy , Niyati Chhaya , Rada Mihalcea , Alexander Gelbukh

The core for tackling the fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to learn subtle yet discriminative features. Most previous works achieve this by explicitly selecting the discriminative parts or integrating the attention mechanism via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Jun Wang , Xiaohan Yu , Yongsheng Gao

To achieve accurate and robust object detection in the real-world scenario, various forms of images are incorporated, such as color, thermal, and depth. However, multimodal data often suffer from the position shift problem, i.e., the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Lu Zhang , Zhiyong Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhan Song , Xu Yang , Zhen Lei , Hong Qiao

We present AToken, the first unified visual tokenizer that achieves both high-fidelity reconstruction and semantic understanding across images, videos, and 3D assets. Unlike existing tokenizers that specialize in either reconstruction or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jiasen Lu , Liangchen Song , Mingze Xu , Byeongjoo Ahn , Yanjun Wang , Chen Chen , Afshin Dehghan , Yinfei Yang

Deep learning-based image fusion approaches have obtained wide attention in recent years, achieving promising performance in terms of visual perception. However, the fusion module in the current deep learning-based methods suffers from two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Dongyu Rao , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Guoyang Chen

Visual recognition inside the vehicle cabin leads to safer driving and more intuitive human-vehicle interaction but such systems face substantial obstacles as they need to capture different granularities of driver behaviour while dealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Alina Roitberg , Kunyu Peng , Zdravko Marinov , Constantin Seibold , David Schneider , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Multimodal semantic segmentation shows significant potential for enhancing segmentation accuracy in complex scenes. However, current methods often incorporate specialized feature fusion modules tailored to specific modalities, thereby…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Bingyu Li , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

We present TokenFlow, a novel unified image tokenizer that bridges the long-standing gap between multimodal understanding and generation. Prior research attempt to employ a single reconstruction-targeted Vector Quantization (VQ) encoder for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Liao Qu , Huichao Zhang , Yiheng Liu , Xu Wang , Yi Jiang , Yiming Gao , Hu Ye , Daniel K. Du , Zehuan Yuan , Xinglong Wu

Vision transformers have achieved great successes in many computer vision tasks. Most methods generate vision tokens by splitting an image into a regular and fixed grid and treating each cell as a token. However, not all regions are equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Wang Zeng , Sheng Jin , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Ping Luo , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang