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ARXIV:2603.28414 · MARITIME AI · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:19 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28414MARITIME AISUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:19 UTCFRESHNESS STALEWeichao Cai · Weiliang Huang · Biao Xue · Chao Huang · Fei Yuan · Bob Zhang · arXiv
A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments.
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Pain A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments.
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A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image…
Marine scene understanding and segmentation plays a vital role in maritime monitoring and navigation safety. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image degradation, significantly compromising the stability…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Existing restoration and enhancement methods typically target specific degradations or focus solely on visual quality, lacking end-to-end collaborative mechanisms that simultaneously improve structural recovery…
Maritime AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28414A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments.
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Marine scene understanding and segmentation plays a vital role in maritime monitoring and navigation safety. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image degradation, significantly compromising the stability of semantic perception. Existing restoration and enhancement methods typically target specific degradations or focus solely on visual quality, lacking end-to-end collaborative mechanisms that simultaneously improve structural recovery and semantic effectiveness. Moreover, publicly available infrared-visible datasets are predominantly collected from urban scenes, failing to capture the authentic characteristics of coupled degradations in marine environments. To address these challenges, the Infrared-Visible Maritime Ship Dataset (IVMSD) is proposed to cover various maritime scenarios under diverse weather and illumination conditions. Building upon this dataset, a Multi-task Complementary Learning Framework (MCLF) is proposed to collaboratively perform image restoration, multimodal fusion, and semantic segmentation within a unified architecture. The framework includes a Frequency-Spatial Enhancement Complementary (FSEC) module for degradation suppression and structural enhancement, a Semantic-Visual Consistency Attention (SVCA) module for semantic-consistent guidance, and a cross-modality guided attention mechanism for selective fusion. Experimental results on IVMSD demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art segmentation performance, significantly enhancing robustness and perceptual quality under complex maritime conditions.
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A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image degrad...
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Marine scene understanding and segmentation plays a vital role in maritime monitoring and navigation safety. However, prevalent factors like fog and strong reflections in maritime environments cause severe image degradation, significantly compromising the stability of semantic p...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Existing restoration and enhancement methods typically target specific degradations or focus solely on visual quality, lacking end-to-end collaborative mechanisms that simultaneously improve structural re...
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Maritime AI moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
IVMD fills the gap of lacking real maritime multi-degradation datasets.
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This framework bridges the gap between low-level degradation restoration and high-level semantic perception, achieving collaborative optimization of the two tasks.
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the Frequency-Spatial Enhancement Complementary (FSEC) module suppresses multi-type degradations via frequency
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These unified frameworks have shown promise in handling heterogeneous degradations, but they focus primarily on enhancing the visual quality of the restored images, while overlooking the impact of the restoration results on the performance of downstream vision tasks.
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Experimental results on IVMSD demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art segmentation performance, significantly enhancing robustness and perceptual quality under complex maritime conditions.
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Moreover, publicly available infrared-visible datasets are predominantly collected from urban scenes, failing to capture the authentic characteristics of coupled degradations in marine environments.
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This module leverages the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) for multi-resolution decomposition... The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based filtering performs global frequency refinement
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this paper ultimately obtained a dataset containing 2,313 rigorously aligned high-quality infrared-visible i
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A unified framework for maritime infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation that significantly improves perception and robustness in challenging marine environments.
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