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Multi-modality image fusion and segmentation play a vital role in autonomous driving and robotic operation. Early efforts focus on boosting the performance for only one task, \emph{e.g.,} fusion or segmentation, making it hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Guanyao Wu , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Wei Zhong , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

LiDAR data pretraining offers a promising approach to leveraging large-scale, readily available datasets for enhanced data utilization. However, existing methods predominantly focus on sparse voxel representation, overlooking the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Hui Shuai , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu , Qingshan Liu

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

Multimodal remote sensing data provide complementary information for semantic segmentation, but in real-world deployments, some modalities may be unavailable due to sensor failures, acquisition issues, or challenging atmospheric conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Irem Ulku , Erdem Akagündüz , Ömer Özgür Tanrıöver

In semantic segmentation, generalizing a visual system to both seen categories and novel categories at inference time has always been practically valuable yet challenging. To enable such functionality, existing methods mainly rely on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yuhuan Yang , Chaofan Ma , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Recent advancements in 3D object detection have benefited from multi-modal information from the multi-view cameras and LiDAR sensors. However, the inherent disparities between the modalities pose substantial challenges. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juhan Cha , Minseok Joo , Jihwan Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Injae Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

Recent progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has brought AI capabilities from static offline data processing to real-time streaming interaction, yet they still remain far from human-level multimodal interaction. The key…

Multimodal learning seeks to combine data from multiple input sources to enhance the performance of different downstream tasks. In real-world scenarios, performance can degrade substantially if some input modalities are missing. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Niki Nezakati , Md Kaykobad Reza , Ameya Patil , Mashhour Solh , M. Salman Asif

Reliable detection and tracking of surrounding objects are indispensable for comprehensive motion prediction and planning of autonomous vehicles. Due to the limitations of individual sensors, the fusion of multiple sensor modalities is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Phillip Karle , Felix Fent , Sebastian Huch , Florian Sauerbeck , Markus Lienkamp

Multi-modal collaborative perception calls for great attention to enhancing the safety of autonomous driving. However, current multi-modal approaches remain a ``local fusion to communication'' sequence, which fuses multi-modal data locally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Kang Yang , Peng Wang , Lantao Li , Tianci Bu , Chen Sun , Deying Li , Yongcai Wang

Sensor fusion is crucial for a performant and robust Perception system in autonomous vehicles, but sensor staleness, where data from different sensors arrives with varying delays, poses significant challenges. Temporal misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Meng Fan , Yifan Zuo , Patrick Blaes , Harley Montgomery , Subhasis Das

Cooperative perception, offering a wider field of view than standalone perception, is becoming increasingly crucial in autonomous driving. This perception is enabled through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, allowing connected…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Yucheng Sheng , Le Liang , Hao Ye , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Accurate beam prediction is essential for mitigating signalling overhead and latency in integrated sensing and communication-enabled massive multi-input multi-output systems. With the aid of multimodal learning, the prediction accuracy can…

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Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) is an important research area that aims to understand and recognize human sentiment through multiple modalities. The complementary information provided by multimodal fusion promotes better sentiment…

Humans perceive the world through multisensory integration, blending the information of different modalities to adapt their behavior. Contrastive learning offers an appealing solution for multimodal self-supervised learning. Indeed, by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Benoit Dufumier , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia , Jean-Philippe Thiran

We introduce a discriminative multimodal descriptor based on a pair of sensor readings: a point cloud from a LiDAR and an image from an RGB camera. Our descriptor, named MinkLoc++, can be used for place recognition, re-localization and loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Jacek Komorowski , Monika Wysoczanska , Tomasz Trzcinski

Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the problem of autonomous robots to construct or update a map of an undetermined unstructured environment while simultaneously estimate the pose in it. The current trend towards self-driving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-14 B. Udugama

While multi-modal 3D semantic occupancy prediction typically enhances robustness by fusing camera and LiDAR inputs, its effectiveness is fundamentally constrained by environmental variability. Specifically, camera sensors suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 A. Enes Doruk , Abdelaziz Hussein , Hasan F. Ates

Collaborative perception empowers autonomous agents to share complementary information and overcome perception limitations. While early fusion offers more perceptual complementarity and is inherently robust to model heterogeneity, its high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yushan Han , Hui Zhang , Qiming Xia , Yi Jin , Yidong Li

Current feature matching methods focus on point-level matching, pursuing better representation learning of individual features, but lacking further understanding of the scene. This results in significant performance degradation when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiaoyong Lu , Yaping Yan , Tong Wei , Songlin Du