针对多模态小目标检测,提出任务感知的异构融合方法,提升定位与分类性能。
Beyond Symmetric Fusion: Exploiting Task-Dependent Modality Strengths for RGB-Event Small Object Detection

- 按任务需求分别利用事件流和图像数据的优势,定位用事件,分类用图像
- 在FRED挑战集上比最强基线高10.7 mAP,显著提升小目标检测效果
- 适合需要高精度小目标检测的自动驾驶、工业质检等场景
当前最先进的RGB-Event检测器通过融合互补特征提升对小而快速运动目标的检测能力,但通常将两种模态对齐为统一表示,用于定位和分类。这种任务对称设计与模态各自优势不符。我们进行模态特异性评估发现,事件数据在无类别定位中更有效,而图像数据在定位区域内的类别判别中更具优势。基于此任务依赖性差异,提出异构事件-图像目标检测变换器AERODet。在无类别定位阶段,尺度感知不确定性可靠性估计(SURE)根据物体响应热图计算两模态相对可靠性,并在解码器聚合时动态校准贡献;候选框生成后,任务解耦语义精炼(TDSR)分离分类与定位,使用图像RoI特征进行细粒度分类。在FRED和NeRDD上的大量实验表明,AERODet达到最优性能,在FRED挑战集上超越最强基线10.7 mAP。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
State-of-the-art RGB-Event detectors improve the detection of small, fast-moving objects by combining complementary features from RGB and Event data, yet they typically fuse the two modalities into a unified representation for both localization and classification. Such a task-symmetric design is inconsistent with the intuition that the two modalities should play different roles according to their task-specific strengths. To examine this issue, we conduct a modality-specific evaluation and find that the relative advantage of the two modalities reverses across tasks: Event data are substantially more effective for class-agnostic localization, whereas RGB data provide stronger category evidence within localized target regions. Motivated by this task-dependent asymmetry, we propose an Asymmetric Event-RGB Object Detection Transformer (AERODet). During class-agnostic localization, Scale-wise Uncertainty-aware Reliability Estimation (SURE) calculates the relative reliability of the two modalities from their objectness response heatmaps and accordingly calibrates their contributions when the decoder aggregates multimodal features. Once the candidate boxes are obtained, Task-Decoupled Semantic Refinement (TDSR) decouples classification from localization and uses RGB RoI features for fine-grained classification. Extensive experiments on FRED and NeRDD demonstrate that AERODet achieves state-of-the-art performance. In particular, it surpasses the strongest RGB-Event baseline by 10.7 mAP points on the FRED challenging split.
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