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.
arXiv:2608.20944v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal object detection in remote sensing faces challenges due to semantic heterogeneity and modality-specific noise interference. To this end, we...
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.
arXiv:2607. 24110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile infrared-visible imaging typically pairs a compact infrared sensor with a high-resolution visible camera for complementary perception.
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.
RoES is a Rotational Equivariant Selective-frequency fusion network that dynamically separates low- and high-frequency components of infrared-visible images. It uses a trainable rotation-enhanced updater to decouple frequencies, then fuses them with a dual-branch module: a rotation-equivariant Mamba for low-frequency structural dependencies and a polar spectral attention Dual-Fourier block for high-frequency detail refinement. Experiments show RoES outperforms existing methods in fusion quality and downstream object detection, offering a robust multimodal fusion solution.
arXiv:2608.21099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal object detection is essential for robust scene understanding in challenging conditions, including low-light and adverse environments. Rec...
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...
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.
The paper introduces a new framework for unsupervised visible‑infrared person re‑identification that leverages modality‑unified prototypes. By contrasting with prototypes that unify both modalities, the method jointly optimizes similarity within and across modalities, improving modality invariance. A self‑distillation step refines instance‑prototype relationships using a steady teacher, resulting in a simple yet effective model validated on standard VI‑ReID benchmarks.
Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification (VI-ReID) operates under a closed-world assumption, where queries and galleries are from heterogeneous modalities. However, in open-world scenarios, both sets are likely to contain homogeneous and heterogeneous modality images.
RA‑SOD is a new RGB‑Thermal salient object detection framework that explicitly models the reliability of each modality. It introduces a reliability‑conditioned representation, an uncertainty‑guided dual‑stream refinement, and a pixel‑wise modality competition mechanism to adaptively compensate degraded features and suppress unreliable evidence. Experiments on four benchmarks show that RA‑SOD achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance and remains robust under severe modality degradation.
Multimodal fusion learning (MFL) has shown great potential in the medical domain, where we are faced with disparate data modalities such as imaging, clinical records, and omics. However, existing MFL strategies face several major challenges.