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6D object pose estimation is widely applied in robotic tasks such as grasping and manipulation. Prior methods using RGB-only images are vulnerable to heavy occlusion and poor illumination, so it is important to complement them with depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yi Cheng , Hongyuan Zhu , Ying Sun , Cihan Acar , Wei Jing , Yan Wu , Liyuan Li , Cheston Tan , Joo-Hwee Lim

Current deep learning approaches for multimodal fusion rely on bottom-up fusion of high and mid-level latent modality representations (late/mid fusion) or low level sensory inputs (early fusion). Models of human perception highlight the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Georgios Paraskevopoulos , Efthymios Georgiou , Alexandros Potamianos

The use of multimodal imaging has led to significant improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. Similar to clinical practice, some works have demonstrated the benefits of multimodal fusion for automatic segmentation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 José Morano , Guilherme Aresta , Christoph Grechenig , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunović

Many adaptations of transformers have emerged to address the single-modal vision tasks, where self-attention modules are stacked to handle input sources like images. Intuitively, feeding multiple modalities of data to vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yikai Wang , Xinghao Chen , Lele Cao , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Yunhe Wang

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision with critical applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Multimodal MOT that integrates visible light and thermal infrared information is particularly essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Weiran Li , Yeqiang Liu , Yijie Wei , Mina Han , Qiannan Guo , Zhenbo Li

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Sijie Mai , Haifeng Hu , Songlong Xing

In existing self-supervised depth and ego-motion estimation methods, ego-motion estimation is usually limited to only leveraging RGB information. Recently, several methods have been proposed to further improve the accuracy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Zijie Jiang , Hajime Taira , Naoyuki Miyashita , Masatoshi Okutomi

Most existing multimodal trackers adopt uniform fusion strategies, overlooking the inherent differences between modalities. Moreover, they propagate temporal information through mixed tokens, leading to entangled and less discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Shilei Wang , Pujian Lai , Dong Gao , Jifeng Ning , Gong Cheng

Blended emotion recognition is challenging because emotions are often expressed as mixtures of subtle and overlapping multimodal cues rather than a single dominant signal. We propose a rank-aware multi-encoder framework that selectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junghyun Lee , Hyunseo Kim , Hanna Jang , Junhyug Noh

Contrastive loss has been increasingly used in learning representations from multiple modalities. In the limit, the nature of the contrastive loss encourages modalities to exactly match each other in the latent space. Yet it remains an open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Qian Jiang , Changyou Chen , Han Zhao , Liqun Chen , Qing Ping , Son Dinh Tran , Yi Xu , Belinda Zeng , Trishul Chilimbi

Fusing an arbitrary number of modalities is vital for achieving robust multi-modal fusion of semantic segmentation yet remains less explored to date. Recent endeavors regard RGB modality as the center and the others as the auxiliary,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xu Zheng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Jiazhou Zhou , Lin Wang

As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

The effectiveness of a model is heavily reliant on the quality of the fusion representation of multiple modalities in multimodal sentiment analysis. Moreover, each modality is extracted from raw input and integrated with the rest to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Cong-Duy Nguyen , Thong Nguyen , Duc Anh Vu , Luu Anh Tuan

Recently, multi-view learning (MVL) has garnered significant attention due to its ability to fuse discriminative information from multiple views. However, real-world multi-view datasets are often heterogeneous and imperfect, which usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jie Xu , Na Zhao , Gang Niu , Masashi Sugiyama , Xiaofeng Zhu

Creating a meaningful representation by fusing single modalities (e.g., text, images, or audio) is the core concept of multimodal learning. Although several techniques for building multimodal representations have been proven successful,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Maciej Pawłowski , Anna Wróblewska , Sylwia Sysko-Romańczuk

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Zelin Meng , Takanori Fukao

Sparse Representation (SR) techniques encode the test samples into a sparse linear combination of all training samples and then classify the test samples into the class with the minimum residual. The classification of SR techniques depends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Chun-Mei Feng , Yong Xu , Zuoyong Li , Jian Yang