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Main Authors: Wu, Jiaqi, Wang, Zhen, Huang, Enhao, Shen, Kangqing, Wang, Yulin, Yue, Yang, Pu, Yifan, Huang, Gao
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11234
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author Wu, Jiaqi
Wang, Zhen
Huang, Enhao
Shen, Kangqing
Wang, Yulin
Yue, Yang
Pu, Yifan
Huang, Gao
author_facet Wu, Jiaqi
Wang, Zhen
Huang, Enhao
Shen, Kangqing
Wang, Yulin
Yue, Yang
Pu, Yifan
Huang, Gao
contents Text-guided multispectral object detection uses text semantics to guide semantic-aware cross-modal interaction between RGB and IR for more robust perception. However, notable limitations remain: (1) existing methods often use text only as an auxiliary semantic enhancement signal, without exploiting its guiding role to bridge the inherent granularity asymmetry between RGB and IR; and (2) conventional data-driven attention-based fusion tends to emphasize stable consensus while overlooking potentially valuable cross-modal discrepancies. To address these issues, we propose a semantic bridge fusion framework with bi-support modeling for multispectral object detection. Specifically, text is used as a shared semantic bridge to align RGB and IR responses under a unified category condition, while the recalibrated thermal semantic prior is projected onto the RGB branch for semantic-level mapping fusion. We further formulate RGB-IR interaction evidence into the regular consensus support and the complementary discrepancy support that contains potentially discriminative cues, and introduce them into fusion via dynamic recalibration as a structured inductive bias. In addition, we design a bidirectional semantic alignment module for closed-loop vision-text guidance enhancement. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed fusion framework and its superior detection performance on multispectral benchmarks. Code is available at https://github.com/zhenwang5372/Bridging-RGB-IR-Gap.
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spellingShingle Bridging the RGB-IR Gap: Consensus and Discrepancy Modeling for Text-Guided Multispectral Detection
Wu, Jiaqi
Wang, Zhen
Huang, Enhao
Shen, Kangqing
Wang, Yulin
Yue, Yang
Pu, Yifan
Huang, Gao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Text-guided multispectral object detection uses text semantics to guide semantic-aware cross-modal interaction between RGB and IR for more robust perception. However, notable limitations remain: (1) existing methods often use text only as an auxiliary semantic enhancement signal, without exploiting its guiding role to bridge the inherent granularity asymmetry between RGB and IR; and (2) conventional data-driven attention-based fusion tends to emphasize stable consensus while overlooking potentially valuable cross-modal discrepancies. To address these issues, we propose a semantic bridge fusion framework with bi-support modeling for multispectral object detection. Specifically, text is used as a shared semantic bridge to align RGB and IR responses under a unified category condition, while the recalibrated thermal semantic prior is projected onto the RGB branch for semantic-level mapping fusion. We further formulate RGB-IR interaction evidence into the regular consensus support and the complementary discrepancy support that contains potentially discriminative cues, and introduce them into fusion via dynamic recalibration as a structured inductive bias. In addition, we design a bidirectional semantic alignment module for closed-loop vision-text guidance enhancement. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed fusion framework and its superior detection performance on multispectral benchmarks. Code is available at https://github.com/zhenwang5372/Bridging-RGB-IR-Gap.
title Bridging the RGB-IR Gap: Consensus and Discrepancy Modeling for Text-Guided Multispectral Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11234