arXiv:2506. 03096v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contrastive language-image pre-training aligns features of text-image pairs in a common latent space via distinct encoders for each modality.
By Christian Schlarmann, Francesco Croce, Nicolas Flammarion, Matthias Hein
arXiv:2606. 29888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models map images and text into a joint embedding space.
By Chungpa Lee, Jihoon Kwon, Kyle Min, Jy-yong Sohn
Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) represents a challenging retrieval task that targets locating specific images through multimodal inputs. Despite recent progress in CIR techniques, prior approaches often overlook cases where images appear visually alike yet differ in attributes, potentially undermining both multimodal feature fusion and similarity modeling.
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.
arXiv:2602. 24181v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pre-trained vision encoders like DINOv2 have demonstrated exceptional performance on unimodal tasks.
By Rishabh Kabra, Maks Ovsjanikov, Drew A. Hudson, Ye Xia, Skanda Koppula, Andre Araujo, Joao Carreira, Niloy J. Mitra
arXiv:2602. 17395v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify novel categories in unlabeled data while leveraging a small labeled subset of known classes.
By Lorenzo Caselli, Marco Mistretta, Simone Magistri, Andrew D. Bagdanov
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
arXiv:2601.21670v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal fusion is often treated as an optimization-balancing problem, where training signals are adjusted to prevent one modality from dom...
By Zixuan Xia, Hao Wang, Pengcheng Weng, Yanyu Qian, Yangxin Xu, William Dan, Fei Wang
arXiv:2606. 11190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-modal alignment (CA) and cross-modal prediction (CP) are the dominant paradigms for multimodal representation learning, yet there is no systematic understanding of when each succeeds, when each fails, and when cross-modal training helps at all -- a gap that leaves practitioners, especially in scientific domains like biomedicine or astrophysics, with heterogeneous instruments and multiple levels of organization and measurement, unable to diagnose why standard methods underperform the best single modality.
By Ilay Kamai, Hugues Van Assel, Aviv Regev, Hagai B. Perets, Randall Balestriero
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...
By Xin Wu, Zhenyu Gao, Qiankun Zhang, Shaoyong Guo
Cross-modal place recognition (CMPR) aims to identify the same location across heterogeneous sensing modalities, such as vision and LiDAR. Existing methods commonly bridge the modality gap using complex alignment modules, multi-stage training, or full fine-tuning of pretrained backbones.
arXiv:2608. 02092v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep multimodal fusion for object detection has demonstrated good performance through mining modal characteristics.
By Guandi Wang, Ming Li, Yunsen Xing, Junle Liu