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Multi-modality images have been widely used and provide comprehensive information for medical image analysis. However, acquiring all modalities among all institutes is costly and often impossible in clinical settings. To leverage more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Qi Chang , Hui Qu , Zhennan Yan , Yunhe Gao , Lohendran Baskaran , Dimitris Metaxas

Multimodal image registration is a challenging but essential step for numerous image-guided procedures. Most registration algorithms rely on the computation of complex, frequently non-differentiable similarity metrics to deal with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Matteo Ronchetti , Wolfgang Wein , Nassir Navab , Oliver Zettinig , Raphael Prevost

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

Multi-modality image fusion is a technique that combines information from different sensors or modalities, enabling the fused image to retain complementary features from each modality, such as functional highlights and texture details.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zixiang Zhao , Haowen Bai , Jiangshe Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Kai Zhang , Shuang Xu , Dongdong Chen , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Image feature matching, a foundational task in computer vision, remains challenging for multimodal image applications, often necessitating intricate training on specific datasets. In this paper, we introduce a Unified Feature Matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yide Di , Yun Liao , Hao Zhou , Kaijun Zhu , Qing Duan , Junhui Liu , Mingyu Lu

Generative models have made it possible to synthesize highly realistic images, potentially providing an abundant data source for training machine learning models. Despite the advantages of these synthesizable data sources, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Shentong Mo , Sukmin Yun

Vision foundation models like DINOv2 demonstrate remarkable potential in medical imaging despite their origin in natural image domains. However, their design inherently works best for uni-modal image analysis, limiting their effectiveness…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Daniel Scholz , Ayhan Can Erdur , Viktoria Ehm , Anke Meyer-Baese , Jan C. Peeken , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler

Multimodal encoders like CLIP excel in tasks such as zero-shot image classification and cross-modal retrieval. However, they require excessive training data. We propose canonical similarity analysis (CSA), which uses two unimodal encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Po-han Li , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

In recent literature, few-shot classification has predominantly been defined by the N-way k-shot meta-learning problem. Models designed for this purpose are usually trained to excel on standard benchmarks following a restricted setup,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Constance Ferragu , Philomene Chagniot , Vincent Coyette

Utilizing multi-modal data enhances scene understanding by providing complementary semantic and geometric information. Existing methods fuse features or distill knowledge from multiple modalities into a unified representation, improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jialei Chen , Xu Zheng , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Hiroshi Murase , Daisuke Deguchi

Medical image re-identification (MedReID) is under-explored so far, despite its critical applications in personalized healthcare and privacy protection. In this paper, we introduce a thorough benchmark and a unified model for this problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yuan Tian , Kaiyuan Ji , Rongzhao Zhang , Yankai Jiang , Chunyi Li , Xiaosong Wang , Guangtao Zhai

Pre-trained vision language models have shown remarkable performance on visual recognition tasks, but they typically assume the availability of complete multimodal inputs during both training and inference. In real-world scenarios, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shu Zhao , Nilesh Ahuja , Tan Yu , Tianyi Shen , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

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

Multimodal learning has recently gained significant popularity, demonstrating impressive performance across various zero-shot classification tasks and a range of perceptive and generative applications. Models such as Contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Can Yaras , Siyi Chen , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

Multimodal emotion recognition leverages complementary information across modalities to gain performance. However, we cannot guarantee that the data of all modalities are always present in practice. In the studies to predict the missing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Haolin Zuo , Rui Liu , Jinming Zhao , Guanglai Gao , Haizhou Li

We propose a pre-training strategy called Multi-modal Multi-task Masked Autoencoders (MultiMAE). It differs from standard Masked Autoencoding in two key aspects: I) it can optionally accept additional modalities of information in the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Roman Bachmann , David Mizrahi , Andrei Atanov , Amir Zamir

Multi-modal fusion is crucial for Internet of Things (IoT) perception, widely deployed in smart homes, intelligent transport, industrial automation, and healthcare. However, existing systems often face challenges: high model complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Weiqi Yang , Xu Zhou , Jingfu Guan , Hao Du , Tianyu Bai

Obtaining common representations from different modalities is important in that they are interchangeable with each other in a classification problem. For example, we can train a classifier on image features in the common representations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Kuniaki Saito , Yusuke Mukuta , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

The success of vision-language models is primarily attributed to effective alignment across modalities such as vision and language. However, modality gaps persist in existing alignment algorithms and appear necessary for human perception as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hanqi Yan , Xiangxiang Cui , Lu Yin , Jindong Gu , Paul Pu Liang , Yulan He , Yifei Wang

Visible-Infrared person Re-IDentification (VI-ReID) is a challenging cross-modality image retrieval task that aims to match pedestrians' images across visible and infrared cameras. To solve the modality gap, existing mainstream methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tengfei Liang , Yi Jin , Wu Liu , Tao Wang , Songhe Feng , Yidong Li