The paper introduces CRT‑HMAR, a framework that uses causal requirement tracing and hierarchical multi‑agent regulation to perform infrared‑visible image fusion that is aware of open tasks. It maps task‑specific semantic preferences into image‑level causal requirement maps, aggregates this knowledge with a requirement analysis agent, and balances multi‑objective optimization while mitigating gradient conflicts. Experiments on five downstream tasks show that CRT‑HMAR generalizes better to unseen tasks while preserving performance on seen tasks.
Infrared and visible (IR-VIS) image fusion integrates complementary multimodal information into a single fused image to support downstream vision tasks. However, existing methods are typically tailore...
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...
The paper introduces W2F, a visual‑semantic mutual‑reinforcing framework for multi‑modal image fusion (MMIF). It enhances feature complementarity with a segmentation‑guided fusion loss and an embedded information restoration prior, and employs interactive gated mixed attention (IGM‑Att) and progressive coupling attention (PC‑Att) to fuse local and global information. A collaborative mechanism with a feature search module and gradient correction further aligns visual and semantic fusion, leading to state‑of‑the‑art visual appeal and decision accuracy.
arXiv:2608. 05771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has achieved substantial progress under domain-consistent evaluation, yet detector performance often degrades markedly when generalizing to unseen infrared domains.
arXiv:2607. 02572v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In multi-source image fusion scenarios, heterogeneous inputs are typically driven by distinct generative mechanisms and can be viewed as a composition of multiple causal systems.
Controllable infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary thermal and structural information with flexible region-aware modulation, producing fused images that adapt to diverse user requirements and downstream tasks. However, existing methods typically rely on predefined discrete control conditions, leading to a sparse space that fails to support fine-grained modulation demands.
Recent advances in multimodal generative models have enabled instruction-based image generation to move beyond semantic manipulation to knowledge-driven visual reasoning. However, these methods focus on explicit commonsense reasoning, shallow causal understanding, and direct knowledge recall, failing at knowledge-intensive generation.
CCRV-Bench is a constraint‑driven benchmark designed to evaluate visual causal reasoning in vision‑language models on single‑image physical scenarios. It assesses four causal task dimensions—causal relation discovery, state prediction, causal diagnosis, and intervention—while applying constraints such as entity symbolization, spatial grounding, factual adversarial constraints, and minimalist output constraints to reduce shortcut learning. Experiments on 15 multimodal models reveal that constraint sensitivity varies by task and model, with intervention and spatial grounding having the largest impact and factual adversarial constraints improving causal diagnosis across models.
Multi-modality data from different sensors provides rich complementary information for 3D perception, becoming an essential component in reliable autonomous driving systems. Current research typically designs intricate and complex fusion strategies to integrate information from multimodal data on a unified bird's-eye-view (BEV) feature map for the joint learning of multiple perception tasks.
The paper introduces UniDecouple, a selective decoupling framework for continual learning in unified multimodal models that addresses Task Objective Conflict (TOC). By employing a Task-Aware Mixture-of-Experts (TA‑MoE) architecture, it retains shared attention layers while adding task‑specific feed‑forward network experts to reduce optimization conflicts. Hierarchical expert routing and hybrid collaboration further balance task specialization with cross‑task knowledge sharing, and a two‑stage training strategy enhances both multimodal understanding and image generation performance.
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.
The paper introduces Mosaic, a multi-image visual harness that lets large language‑vision models (MLLMs) construct visual intermediates using ten composable image operations. It evaluates five re‑representation settings on existing multi‑image benchmarks and a new grounding‑focused benchmark, MosaicBench, finding that visual re‑representation benefits tasks requiring precise visual evidence more than those dominated by high‑level semantics. MosaicAgent‑8B is trained via reinforcement learning to compose these operations without demonstration trajectories, demonstrating diverse problem‑solving patterns.