Mobile infrared-visible imaging typically pairs a compact infrared sensor with a high-resolution visible camera for complementary perception. While cross-sensor misalignment caused by different optics, viewpoints, fields of view, and exposure timings hinders practical deployment.
The paper introduces FlexibleFusion, a method for infrared-visible object detection that adapts to both complete and missing-modality scenarios. It employs a Modality-Aware Experts Collaboration mechanism to selectively fuse cross-modal or intra-modal pathways, and a Residual Self-Paced Entropic Optimal Transport module to align heterogeneous feature distributions without heavy optimization. Experiments demonstrate consistent performance across various modality configurations.
By Yue Zhao, Hua Yu, Yukun Zhao, Yuzhi Zhang, Maoguo Gong, Xin Mei, Zhuping Hu, Yanchi Li, A. K. Qin
Diff‑RF is a diffusion‑based framework that jointly performs image registration and fusion while accounting for degradation in multi‑modal images. It first restores modality‑specific degradations within each image, then uses a cross‑modal diffusion module that couples registration and fusion, refining alignment and enhancing complementary information. Experiments on extended datasets show that this coupled approach yields higher registration accuracy and fusion quality under diverse degraded conditions.
By Xunpeng Yi, Zaixi Du, Qinglong Yan, Yibing Zhang, Han Xu, Jiayi Ma
Infrared-visible image fusion (IVIF) is pivotal for multimodal perception, yet reconciling the inherent information disparity between thermal and textural features remains a fundamental challenge. Existing prior-guided methods often rely on static constraints that induce optimization conflicts or utilize extrinsic semantic priors from large-scale foundation models (e.
arXiv:2603.02767v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Image--text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield repre...
By Hanpeng Liu, Zidan Wang, Shuoxi Zhang, Zonglin Zhao, Zihao Bo, Rinyoichi Takezoe, Kaiwen Long, Yaqian Li, Kun He
arXiv:2608.21786v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: General image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images, but existing methods often rely on task-specific mode...
By Xingxin Xu, Siqi Zhao, Xin Li, Xinjie Yao, Yiming Sun, Pengfei Zhu
arXiv:2608. 15972v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synchronized camera and wireless measurements observe the same scene through different physical channels.
By Yubo Zhang, Yiyao Liu
XCalib is an unsupervised dense registration framework that aligns thermal and visible video streams by optimizing virtual pinhole camera parameters and predicted monocular depth, thereby restricting spatial displacements to physically valid projection geometries. It introduces a novel registration paradigm using camera parameterization as an implicit regularizer, a robust Normalized Edges Correlation (NEC) metric for cross‑spectral alignment, and demonstrates superior temporal stability and alignment accuracy on public ADAS datasets compared to unconstrained dense flow baselines.
By Aurelien Godet, Gabriel Jobert, Mauro Dalla Mura
arXiv:2609.01060v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Compact snapshot hyperspectral cameras provide rich instantaneous spectral measurements for ground-level machine vision, but at lower spatial resolut...
By Mohamad Jouni, Aur\'elien Godet, Mauro Dalla Mura
Visible-infrared (VIS-IR) alignment is a key pre-training task for robust multi-sensor perception. Most existing methods use uniform patch-wise contrastive learning, but this can be unreliable in VIS-IR data because imaging-physics differences make some spatially paired regions inherently less comparable, and aligning them with equal strength hinders representation learning and downstream transfer.
arXiv:2608.27971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multimodal perception integrates visible (RGB), infrared (IR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and depth sensors for scen...
By Jingpu Yang, Debin Tang, Yilin Sun, Fengxian Ji, Jiahua Zhu, Wenrui Ding, Yufeng Wang
arXiv:2608.29220v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal image fusion (MMIF) aims to integrate complementary sensor data into a single representation that preserves intrinsic scene reality while el...
By Haozhen Wei, Chengjun Jiang, Yutong Guo, Xinrui Ju, Xingyuan Li, Xiang Chen, Jinyuan Liu