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Variational Probabilistic Fusion Network for RGB-T Semantic Segmentation

17 Jul 2023arXiv:2307.08536archive 2025-07-28

Baihong Lin, Zengrong Lin, Yulan Guo, Yulan Zhang, Jianxiao Zou, Shicai Fan

RGB-T semantic segmentation has been widely adopted to handle hard scenes with poor lighting conditions by fusing different modality features of RGB and thermal images. Existing methods try to find an optimal fusion feature for segmentation, resulting in sensitivity to modality noise, class-imbalance, and modality bias. To overcome the problems, this paper proposes a novel Variational Probabilistic Fusion Network (VPFNet), which regards fusion features as random variables and obtains robust segmentation by averaging segmentation results under multiple samples of fusion features. The random samples generation of fusion features in VPFNet is realized by a novel Variational Feature Fusion Module (VFFM) designed based on variation attention. To further avoid class-imbalance and modality bias, we employ the weighted cross-entropy loss and introduce prior information of illumination and category to control the proposed VFFM. Experimental results on MFNet and PST900 datasets demonstrate that the proposed VPFNet can achieve state-of-the-art segmentation performance.

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SegmentationSemantic SegmentationThermal Image Segmentation

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Thermal Image Segmentation MFN Dataset VPFNet mIOU 57.61 #19 of 55 Archive leaderboard report

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