MAGIC++: Efficient and Resilient Modality-Agnostic Semantic Segmentation via Hierarchical Modality Selection

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Main Authors: Zheng, Xu, Lyu, Yuanhuiyi, Jiang, Lutao, Zhou, Jiazhou, Wang, Lin, Hu, Xuming
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author Zheng, Xu
Lyu, Yuanhuiyi
Jiang, Lutao
Zhou, Jiazhou
Wang, Lin
Hu, Xuming
author_facet Zheng, Xu
Lyu, Yuanhuiyi
Jiang, Lutao
Zhou, Jiazhou
Wang, Lin
Hu, Xuming
contents In this paper, we address the challenging modality-agnostic semantic segmentation (MaSS), aiming at centering the value of every modality at every feature granularity. Training with all available visual modalities and effectively fusing an arbitrary combination of them is essential for robust multi-modal fusion in semantic segmentation, especially in real-world scenarios, yet remains less explored to date. Existing approaches often place RGB at the center, treating other modalities as secondary, resulting in an asymmetric architecture. However, RGB alone can be limiting in scenarios like nighttime, where modalities such as event data excel. Therefore, a resilient fusion model must dynamically adapt to each modality's strengths while compensating for weaker inputs.To this end, we introduce the MAGIC++ framework, which comprises two key plug-and-play modules for effective multi-modal fusion and hierarchical modality selection that can be equipped with various backbone models. Firstly, we introduce a multi-modal interaction module to efficiently process features from the input multi-modal batches and extract complementary scene information with channel-wise and spatial-wise guidance. On top, a unified multi-scale arbitrary-modal selection module is proposed to utilize the aggregated features as the benchmark to rank the multi-modal features based on the similarity scores at hierarchical feature spaces. This way, our method can eliminate the dependence on RGB modality at every feature granularity and better overcome sensor failures and environmental noises while ensuring the segmentation performance. Under the common multi-modal setting, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both real-world and synthetic benchmarks. Moreover, our method is superior in the novel modality-agnostic setting, where it outperforms prior arts by a large margin.
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spellingShingle MAGIC++: Efficient and Resilient Modality-Agnostic Semantic Segmentation via Hierarchical Modality Selection
Zheng, Xu
Lyu, Yuanhuiyi
Jiang, Lutao
Zhou, Jiazhou
Wang, Lin
Hu, Xuming
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In this paper, we address the challenging modality-agnostic semantic segmentation (MaSS), aiming at centering the value of every modality at every feature granularity. Training with all available visual modalities and effectively fusing an arbitrary combination of them is essential for robust multi-modal fusion in semantic segmentation, especially in real-world scenarios, yet remains less explored to date. Existing approaches often place RGB at the center, treating other modalities as secondary, resulting in an asymmetric architecture. However, RGB alone can be limiting in scenarios like nighttime, where modalities such as event data excel. Therefore, a resilient fusion model must dynamically adapt to each modality's strengths while compensating for weaker inputs.To this end, we introduce the MAGIC++ framework, which comprises two key plug-and-play modules for effective multi-modal fusion and hierarchical modality selection that can be equipped with various backbone models. Firstly, we introduce a multi-modal interaction module to efficiently process features from the input multi-modal batches and extract complementary scene information with channel-wise and spatial-wise guidance. On top, a unified multi-scale arbitrary-modal selection module is proposed to utilize the aggregated features as the benchmark to rank the multi-modal features based on the similarity scores at hierarchical feature spaces. This way, our method can eliminate the dependence on RGB modality at every feature granularity and better overcome sensor failures and environmental noises while ensuring the segmentation performance. Under the common multi-modal setting, our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both real-world and synthetic benchmarks. Moreover, our method is superior in the novel modality-agnostic setting, where it outperforms prior arts by a large margin.
title MAGIC++: Efficient and Resilient Modality-Agnostic Semantic Segmentation via Hierarchical Modality Selection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16876