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Nowadays, cross-modal retrieval plays an indispensable role to flexibly find information across different modalities of data. Effectively measuring the similarity between different modalities of data is the key of cross-modal retrieval.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yuxin Peng , Jinwei Qi , Yuxin Yuan

The ability to learn robust multi-modality representation has played a critical role in the development of RGBT tracking. However, the regular fusion paradigm and the invariable tracking template remain restrictive to the feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ruichao Hou , Boyue Xu , Tongwei Ren , Gangshan Wu

Multi-modal affect recognition models leverage complementary information in different modalities to outperform their uni-modal counterparts. However, due to the unavailability of modality-specific sensors or data, multi-modal models may not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

In medical vision, different imaging modalities provide complementary information. However, in practice, not all modalities may be available during inference or even training. Previous approaches, e.g., knowledge distillation or image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Aishik Konwer , Xiaoling Hu , Joseph Bae , Xuan Xu , Chao Chen , Prateek Prasanna

Camouflaged Object Detection (COD) aims to segment objects that blend seamlessly into complex backgrounds, with growing interest in exploiting additional visual modalities to enhance robustness through complementary information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hao Wang , Jiqing Zhang , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Lu Jiang , Zetian Mi , Huibing Wang

Multispectral pedestrian detection is capable of adapting to insufficient illumination conditions by leveraging color-thermal modalities. On the other hand, it is still lacking of in-depth insights on how to fuse the two modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Kailai Zhou , Linsen Chen , Xun Cao

Multi-modal Contrastive Representation learning aims to encode different modalities into a semantically aligned shared space. This paradigm shows remarkable generalization ability on numerous downstream tasks across various modalities.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zehan Wang , Yang Zhao , Xize Cheng , Haifeng Huang , Jiageng Liu , Li Tang , Linjun Li , Yongqi Wang , Aoxiong Yin , Ziang Zhang , Zhou Zhao

Multimodal learning has shown great potentials in numerous scenes and attracts increasing interest recently. However, it often encounters the problem of missing modality data and thus suffers severe performance degradation in practice. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shicai Wei , Yang Luo , Chunbo Luo

Accurately matching visual and textual data in cross-modal retrieval has been widely studied in the multimedia community. To address these challenges posited by the heterogeneity gap and the semantic gap, we propose integrating Shannon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Wei Chen , Yu Liu , Erwin M. Bakker , Michael S. Lew

Cross-modal retrieval aims to learn discriminative and modal-invariant features for data from different modalities. Unlike the existing methods which usually learn from the features extracted by offline networks, in this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Longlong Jing , Elahe Vahdani , Jiaxing Tan , Yingli Tian

Multimodal representation learning aims to construct a shared embedding space in which heterogeneous modalities are semantically aligned. Despite strong empirical results, InfoNCE-based objectives introduce inherent conflicts that yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wenzhe Yin , Pan Zhou , Zehao Xiao , Jie Liu , Shujian Yu , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Efstratios Gavves

We propose a novel framework, called Disjoint Mapping Network (DIMNet), for cross-modal biometric matching, in particular of voices and faces. Different from the existing methods, DIMNet does not explicitly learn the joint relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Yandong Wen , Mahmoud Al Ismail , Weiyang Liu , Bhiksha Raj , Rita Singh

Multi-modal learning relates information across observation modalities of the same physical phenomenon to leverage complementary information. Most multi-modal machine learning methods require that all the modalities used for training are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Multimodal models often experience a significant performance drop when one or more modalities are missing during inference. To address this challenge, we propose a simple yet effective approach that enhances robustness to missing modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Md Kaykobad Reza , Ameya Patil , Mashhour Solh , M. Salman Asif

We aim to develop a fundamental understanding of modality collapse, a recently observed empirical phenomenon wherein models trained for multimodal fusion tend to rely only on a subset of the modalities, ignoring the rest. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Abhra Chaudhuri , Anjan Dutta , Tu Bui , Serban Georgescu

This paper pays close attention to the cross-modality visible-infrared person re-identification (VI Re-ID) task, which aims to match pedestrian samples between visible and infrared modes. In order to reduce the modality-discrepancy between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Guangwei Gao , Hao Shao , Fei Wu , Meng Yang , Yi Yu

Infrared and visible image fusion has gradually proved to be a vital fork in the field of multi-modality imaging technologies. In recent developments, researchers not only focus on the quality of fused images but also evaluate their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jiawei Li , Jiansheng Chen , Jinyuan Liu , Huimin Ma

Understanding dark scenes based on multi-modal image data is challenging, as both the visible and auxiliary modalities provide limited semantic information for the task. Previous methods focus on fusing the two modalities but neglect the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaoyu Dong , Naoto Yokoya

Feature matching is a cornerstone task in computer vision, essential for applications such as image retrieval, stereo matching, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. This survey comprehensively reviews modality-based feature matching, exploring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Weide Liu , Wei Zhou , Jun Liu , Ping Hu , Jun Cheng , Jungong Han , Weisi Lin

Multimodal information retrieval (MIR) faces inherent challenges due to the heterogeneity of data sources and the complexity of cross-modal alignment. While previous studies have identified modal gaps in feature spaces, a systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Fanheng Kong , Jingyuan Zhang , Yahui Liu , Hongzhi Zhang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yu Tian , Victoria W. , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou