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The advantage of RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) detection lies in its ability to perform modality fusion and integrate cross-modality complementary information, enabling robust detection under diverse illumination and weather conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chao Tian , Zikun Zhou , Chao Yang , Guoqing Zhu , Fu'an Zhong , Zhenyu He

Multimodal remote sensing semantic segmentation enhances scene interpretation by exploiting complementary physical cues from heterogeneous data. Although pretrained Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) provide strong general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Haocheng Li , Juepeng Zheng , Shuangxi Miao , Ruibo Lu , Guosheng Cai , Haohuan Fu , Jianxi Huang

With the rapid progression of deep learning technologies, multi-modality image fusion has become increasingly prevalent in object detection tasks. Despite its popularity, the inherent disparities in how different sources depict scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xingyuan Li , Yang Zou , Jinyuan Liu , Zhiying Jiang , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Focus based methods have shown promising results for the task of depth estimation. However, most existing focus based depth estimation approaches depend on maximal sharpness of the focal stack. Out of focus information in the focal stack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yongri Piao , Yukun Zhang , Miao Zhang , Xinxin Ji

We propose a new deep learning architecture for the tasks of semantic segmentation and depth prediction from RGB-D images. We revise the state of art based on the RGB and depth feature fusion, where both modalities are assumed to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Giorgio Giannone , Boris Chidlovskii

Medical image segmentation of tumors and organs at risk is a time-consuming yet critical process in the clinic that utilizes multi-modality imaging (e.g, different acquisitions, data types, and sequences) to increase segmentation precision.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Qisheng He , Nicholas Summerfield , Ming Dong , Carri Glide-Hurst

Semantic segmentation of RGB-D images involves understanding the appearance and spatial relationships of objects within a scene, which requires careful consideration of various factors. However, in indoor environments, the simple input of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Shuai Zhang , Minghong Xie

Fusing and balancing multi-modal inputs from novel sensors for dense prediction tasks, particularly semantic segmentation, is critically important yet remains a significant challenge. One major limitation is the tendency of multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xu Zheng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Lutao Jiang , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Xuming Hu

The multi-modal salient object detection model based on RGB-D information has better robustness in the real world. However, it remains nontrivial to better adaptively balance effective multi-modal information in the feature fusion phase. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jinchao Zhu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xian Fang , Feng Dong , Qiu Yu

Multimodal learning leverages complementary information derived from different modalities, thereby enhancing performance in medical image segmentation. However, prevailing multimodal learning methods heavily rely on extensive well-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xiaogen Zhou , Yiyou Sun , Min Deng , Winnie Chiu Wing Chu , Qi Dou

Reliable semantic segmentation of open environments is essential for intelligent systems, yet significant problems remain: 1) Existing RGB-T semantic segmentation models mainly rely on low-level visual features and lack high-level textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Meng Yu , Te Cui , Qitong Chu , Wenjie Song , Yi Yang , Yufeng Yue

This paper focuses on a highly practical scenario: how to continue benefiting from the advantages of multi-modal image fusion under harsh conditions when only visible imaging sensors are available. To achieve this goal, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hao Zhang , Yanping Zha , Zizhuo Li , Meiqi Gong , Jiayi Ma

Generative recommendation systems have achieved significant advances by leveraging semantic IDs to represent items. However, existing approaches that tokenize each modality independently face two critical limitations: (1) redundancy across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Haven Kim , Yupeng Hou , Julian McAuley

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

RGB-infrared person re-identification is an emerging cross-modality re-identification task, which is very challenging due to significant modality discrepancy between RGB and infrared images. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zhipeng Huang , Jiawei Liu , Liang Li , Kecheng Zheng , Zheng-Jun Zha

In the current era of generative AI breakthroughs, generating panoramic scenes from a single input image remains a key challenge. Most existing methods use diffusion-based iterative or simultaneous multi-view inpainting. However, the lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zhipeng Cai , Matthias Mueller , Reiner Birkl , Diana Wofk , Shao-Yen Tseng , JunDa Cheng , Gabriela Ben-Melech Stan , Vasudev Lal , Michael Paulitsch

Multimodal recommendation enhances ranking by integrating user-item interactions with item content, which is particularly effective under sparse feedback and long-tail distributions. However, multimodal signals are inherently heterogeneous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ji Dai , Quan Fang , Dengsheng Cai

The goal of multi-modal learning is to use complimentary information on the relevant task provided by the multiple modalities to achieve reliable and robust performance. Recently, deep learning has led significant improvement in multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Jaekyum Kim , Junho Koh , Yecheol Kim , Jaehyung Choi , Youngbae Hwang , Jun Won Choi

We propose an end-to-end tracking framework for fusing the RGB and TIR modalities in RGB-T tracking. Our baseline tracker is DiMP (Discriminative Model Prediction), which employs a carefully designed target prediction network trained…

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