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.
By Zengyi Yang, Shuai Yuan, Zhong-Cheng Wu, Juan Cheng, Huafeng Li, Yu Liu
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
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.
By Hao Zhang, Xuhui Zuo, Jiayi Ma
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.
By Aohua Li, Jin Kuang, Yubing Lu, Pingping Liu
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
By Jiaxing Zhang, Hao Tang
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.
By Zhizhong Fu, Wei Zhou, Zhaoyang Jiang, Yulong Lin, Yifu Hou, Xiaorong Ding, Qiang Yan, Yifan Chen
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.