让红外检测在无RGB时仍精准,自动过滤不可靠的可见光信息。
InfraNet: Quality-Aware RGB Guidance for Efficient Infrared Object Detection

- 红外为主、可见光为辅,通过质量门控动态调节辅助信号。
- 在4个数据集上低光/恶劣天气下表现优秀,红外独占推理效率高。
- 适合部署在光照差或摄像头失效场景的智能感知系统。
恶劣视觉条件下多模态感知的鲁棒目标检测仍是长期挑战。现有融合方法通常要求同时输入RGB与红外图像,并在训练和推理中同等对待,当可见光模态不可靠或缺失时会降低性能。为此,我们提出以红外为中心的质量感知框架InfraNet,该框架在训练中调控可见光引导,在推理时支持灵活的红外-可见光或纯红外部署。InfraNet采用非对称结构:主路径提取多尺度红外特征用于预测,辅路提供可控可靠性监督信号。核心是质量感知融合模块QualGate,可学习任务导向控制信号,抑制不可靠的可见光引导并补偿红外特征。基于InfraNet设计了两种变体:轻量级纯红外架构InfraNet-IR与红外-可见光联合架构InfraNet-RGB-IR。在四个基准数据集(LLVIP、FLIR-Aligned、M³FD 和 DroneVehicle)上进行了广泛实验,证明其在低光照及恶劣天气条件下具有强或竞争力的准确率。尤其在纯红外推理时保持高效,兼具准确性与计算效率。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Robust object detection under adverse visual conditions remains a long-standing challenge for multi-modal perception systems. Existing fusion-based methods typically require both RGB and infrared (IR) inputs, and treat them equally during both training and inference, which compromises their robustness when the RGB modality becomes unreliable or unavailable. In this case, we propose \textbf{InfraNet}, an IR-centric quality-aware framework that regulates RGB guidance during training and supports flexible RGB--IR or IR-only deployment. InfraNet employs an asymmetric architecture where the primary IR pathway extracts multi-scale infrared features for predictions, while the auxiliary RGB pathway provides reliability-controlled supervisory signals. The core of InfraNet is \textbf{QualGate}, a quality-aware fusion module that learns a task-oriented control signal to suppress unreliable RGB guidance and compensate IR features during cross-modal training. Built upon InfraNet, we design two architectural variants: a lightweight IR-only architecture InfraNet-IR and an RGB--IR architecture InfraNet-RGB-IR. Our method is evaluated through extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets (LLVIP, FLIR-Aligned, M$^3$FD, and DroneVehicle), showing strong or competitive accuracy in challenging low-light and adverse weather conditions. Notably, InfraNet maintains high efficiency in IR-only inference, making it both accurate and computationally efficient.
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