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ARXIV:2603.28023 · MULTI-MODAL SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:21 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28023MULTI-MODAL SEMANTIC SEGMENTATIONSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:21 UTCFRESHNESS STALEJiong Liu · Yingjie Xu · Xingcheng Zhou · Rui Song · Walter Zimmer · Alois Knoll · +1 at arXiv
A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance.
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Pain A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance.
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A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance. We address these challenges by introducing a universal arbitrary-modal semantic segmentation framework that unifies segmentation across multiple modalities.
Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant development efforts. We address these challenges by introducing a universal…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant…
Multi-modal Semantic Segmentation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28023A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance.
Abstract
Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant development efforts. We address these challenges by introducing a universal arbitrary-modal semantic segmentation framework that unifies segmentation across multiple modalities. Our approach features three key innovations: (1) the Modality-aware CLIP (MA-CLIP), which provides modality-specific scene understanding guidance through LoRA fine-tuning; (2) Modality-aligned Embeddings for capturing fine-grained features; and (3) the Domain-specific Refinement Module (DSRM) for dynamic feature adjustment. Evaluated on five diverse datasets with different complementary modalities (event, thermal, depth, polarization, and light field), our model surpasses specialized multi-modal methods and achieves state-of-the-art performance with a mIoU of 65.03%. The codes will be released upon acceptance.
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A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance. We address these challenges by introducing a universal arbitrary-modal semantic segmentation framework that unifies segmentat...
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Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant development efforts. We address these challenges by introducing a universal arbitrary...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Semantic segmentation across arbitrary sensor modalities faces significant challenges due to diverse sensor characteristics, and the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant developmen...
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Multi-modal Semantic Segmentation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
our model surpasses specialized multi-modal methods and achieves state-of-the-art performance with a mIoU of 65.03%.
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a general model capable of handling multiple modalities (event, thermal, depth, polarization, and light field) within a single framework
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we fine-tune CLIP on multi-modal segmentation data using LoRA [13], allowing MA-CLIP to serve as a modality information provider.
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the Domain-specific Refinement Module (DSRM) for dynamic feature adjustment.
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Our general model, SegRGB-X, achieves the best overall performance.
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modality-aligned embedding mechanism with learnable prompts.
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the traditional configurations for this task result in redundant development efforts.
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these vision-language models are primarily trained on natural image-text pairs and are not inherently designed for tasks involving RGB-X modalities
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A universal framework for semantic segmentation across diverse sensor modalities, achieving state-of-the-art performance with modality-specific guidance.
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