CHARM: Collaborative Harmonization across Arbitrary Modalities for Modality-agnostic Semantic Segmentation

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Autori principali: Wen, Lekang, Xiao, Jing, Liao, Liang, Chen, Jiajun, Wang, Mi
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Wen, Lekang
Xiao, Jing
Liao, Liang
Chen, Jiajun
Wang, Mi
author_facet Wen, Lekang
Xiao, Jing
Liao, Liang
Chen, Jiajun
Wang, Mi
contents Modality-agnostic Semantic Segmentation (MaSS) aims to achieve robust scene understanding across arbitrary combinations of input modality. Existing methods typically rely on explicit feature alignment to achieve modal homogenization, which dilutes the distinctive strengths of each modality and destroys their inherent complementarity. To achieve cooperative harmonization rather than homogenization, we propose CHARM, a novel complementary learning framework designed to implicitly align content while preserving modality-specific advantages through two components: (1) Mutual Perception Unit (MPU), enabling implicit alignment through window-based cross-modal interaction, where modalities serve as both queries and contexts for each other to discover modality-interactive correspondences; (2) A dual-path optimization strategy that decouples training into Collaborative Learning Strategy (CoL) for complementary fusion learning and Individual Enhancement Strategy (InE) for protected modality-specific optimization. Experiments across multiple datasets and backbones indicate that CHARM consistently outperform the baselines, with significant increment on the fragile modalities. This work shifts the focus from model homogenization to harmonization, enabling cross-modal complementarity for true harmony in diversity.
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spellingShingle CHARM: Collaborative Harmonization across Arbitrary Modalities for Modality-agnostic Semantic Segmentation
Wen, Lekang
Xiao, Jing
Liao, Liang
Chen, Jiajun
Wang, Mi
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Modality-agnostic Semantic Segmentation (MaSS) aims to achieve robust scene understanding across arbitrary combinations of input modality. Existing methods typically rely on explicit feature alignment to achieve modal homogenization, which dilutes the distinctive strengths of each modality and destroys their inherent complementarity. To achieve cooperative harmonization rather than homogenization, we propose CHARM, a novel complementary learning framework designed to implicitly align content while preserving modality-specific advantages through two components: (1) Mutual Perception Unit (MPU), enabling implicit alignment through window-based cross-modal interaction, where modalities serve as both queries and contexts for each other to discover modality-interactive correspondences; (2) A dual-path optimization strategy that decouples training into Collaborative Learning Strategy (CoL) for complementary fusion learning and Individual Enhancement Strategy (InE) for protected modality-specific optimization. Experiments across multiple datasets and backbones indicate that CHARM consistently outperform the baselines, with significant increment on the fragile modalities. This work shifts the focus from model homogenization to harmonization, enabling cross-modal complementarity for true harmony in diversity.
title CHARM: Collaborative Harmonization across Arbitrary Modalities for Modality-agnostic Semantic Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03060