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The recent Segment Anything Model (SAM) represents a significant breakthrough in scaling segmentation models, delivering strong performance across various downstream applications in the RGB modality. However, directly applying SAM to…

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Depth estimation in complex real-world scenarios is a challenging task, especially when relying solely on a single modality such as visible light or thermal infrared (THR) imagery. This paper proposes a novel multimodal depth estimation…

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This paper introduces a method for image semantic segmentation grounded on a novel fusion scheme, which takes place inside a deep convolutional neural network. The main goal of our proposal is to explore object boundary information to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Jefferson Fontinele , Gabriel Lefundes , Luciano Oliveira

Efficiently exploiting multi-modal inputs for accurate RGB-D saliency detection is a topic of high interest. Most existing works leverage cross-modal interactions to fuse the two streams of RGB-D for intermediate features' enhancement. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zongwei Wu , Shriarulmozhivarman Gobichettipalayam , Brahim Tamadazte , Guillaume Allibert , Danda Pani Paudel , Cédric Demonceaux

The construction of models for video action classification progresses rapidly. However, the performance of those models can still be easily improved by ensembling with the same models trained on different modalities (e.g. Optical flow).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Stepan Komkov , Maksim Dzabraev , Aleksandr Petiushko

Recent RGBD-based models for saliency detection have attracted research attention. The depth clues such as boundary clues, surface normal, shape attribute, etc., contribute to the identification of salient objects with complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zongwei Wu , Guillaume Allibert , Christophe Stolz , Chao Ma , Cédric Demonceaux

Current multi-modal image fusion methods typically rely on task-specific models, leading to high training costs and limited scalability. While generative methods provide a unified modeling perspective, they often suffer from slow inference…

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Multi-modal vehicle Re-Identification (ReID) aims to leverage complementary information from RGB, Near Infrared (NIR), and Thermal Infrared (TIR) modalities to retrieve the same vehicle. The challenges of multi-modal vehicle ReID arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aihua Zheng , Ya Gao , Shihao Li , Chenglong Li , Jin Tang

Multimodal clinical prediction faces three challenges: multiple foundation models (FMs) with complementary strengths per modality, pervasive missing modalities at training and test time, and sample-specific variation in modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Seungik Cho , Anqi Li , Wei Qiu

Multi-modal sequential recommendation systems leverage auxiliary signals (e.g., text, images) to alleviate data sparsity in user-item interactions. While recent methods exploit large language models to encode modalities into discrete…

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As a knowledge discovery task over heterogeneous data sources, current Multimodal Affective Computing (MAC) heavily rely on the completeness of multiple modalities to accurately understand human's affective state. However, in real-world…

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Multimodal learning with incomplete input data (missing modality) is practical and challenging. In this work, we conduct an in-depth analysis of this challenge and find that modality dominance has a significant negative impact on the model…

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Recent efforts have explored multimodal semantic segmentation using various backbone architectures. However, while most methods aim to improve accuracy, their computational efficiency remains underexplored. To address this, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zelin Zhang , Tao Zhang , KediLI , Xu Zheng

3D semantic segmentation is a fundamental building block for several scene understanding applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and AR/VR. Several state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models suffer from the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Anirud Thyagharajan , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Prashant Laddha , Om J Omer , Sreenivas Subramoney

Pattern recognition through the fusion of RGB frames and Event streams has emerged as a novel research area in recent years. Current methods typically employ backbone networks to individually extract the features of RGB frames and event…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Dong Li , Jiandong Jin , Yuhao Zhang , Yanlin Zhong , Yaoyang Wu , Lan Chen , Xiao Wang , Bin Luo

Generative recommendation (GR) has become a powerful paradigm in recommendation systems that implicitly links modality and semantics to item representation, in contrast to previous methods that relied on non-semantic item identifiers in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jing Zhu , Mingxuan Ju , Yozen Liu , Danai Koutra , Neil Shah , Tong Zhao

Traditional vision-based material perception methods often experience substantial performance degradation under visually impaired conditions, thereby motivating the shift toward non-visual multimodal material perception. Despite this,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Kailin Lyu , Long Xiao , Jianing Zeng , Junhao Dong , Xuexin Liu , Zhuojun Zou , Haoyue Yang , Lin Shu , Jie Hao

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate the cold-start and sparsity problems in collaborative filtering by incorporating rich content information, such as product images and textual descriptions. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sibei Liu , Yuanzhe Zhang , Xiang Li , Yunbo Liu , Chengwei Feng , Hao Yang

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…

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