Parameter-Dynamic Adaptive Fusion and Calibration Network for RGBT Tracking

Existing RGBT trackers typically employ fusion functions with fixed parameters across different targets and scenarios. Although dynamic-architecture methods improve fusion flexibility by selecting among predefined operations, they still cannot adapt the fusion parameters to the evolving target state. To address these issues, we propose a Parameter-Dynamic Adaptive Fusion and Calibration Network (PAFCNet) for RGBT tracking. PAFCNet dynamically generates target-conditioned parameters for multimodal fusion and temporal calibration, enabling the tracking process to adapt to target appearance variations and modality quality fluctuations. Specifically, we introduce a Target-Adaptive Hypernetwork (TA-HyperNet) that leverages template representations, which preserve stable target identity and recent appearance changes with less background interference, to generate target-conditioned parameters for subsequent fusion and calibration. Based on TA-HyperNet, we design a target-aware parameter-dynamic fusion module that uses the generated parameters to modulate the fusion process. This enables the fusion module to adapt to changes in target appearance and complex scene conditions. Furthermore, since spatio-temporal information propagation may accumulate tracking noise, we propose a dynamic spatio-temporal calibration module that employs TA-HyperNet to generate calibration parameters for spatio-temporal tokens. By dynamically calibrating historical information before propagation, the module improves the reliability of temporal representations. Experimental results demonstrate that PAFCNet achieves competitive performance on multiple RGBT tracking benchmarks.

GO-PRE: Goal-Oriented Next-Best-View Selection via Predictive Rendering Entropy for Active 3D Reconstruction

Active 3D reconstruction relies on active view selection to maximize reconstruction fidelity under limited capture budgets. However, most existing methods rely on surrogate signals such as parameter uncertainty or geometric heuristics, but these signals are often misaligned with the ultimate goal: the fidelity of rendered predictions. We propose GO-PRE, a goal-oriented next-best-view selection framework that explicitly targets information gain in the prediction space. Specifically, we formulate the objective as maximizing the reduction of the average marginal predictive entropy over a user-specified target view manifold. GO-PRE supports interactive goal specification and yields an efficient acquisition rule that enables real-time computation of information gain. Extensive experiments across benchmarks demonstrate that GO-PRE consistently improves active reconstruction performance and provides more reliable uncertainty quantification compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Spatio-Temporal Conditional Denoising Transformer for Modality-Missing RGBT Tracking

Missing modalities in RGBT tracking often lead to incomplete and unstable multimodal feature representations that greatly degrade the performance. Existing methods typically attempt to recover missing modalities from available ones, but the quality of data generated in challenging scenarios might be unsatisfactory. In addition, current approaches exhibit limited flexibility in processing both missing and complete data. To overcome these limitations, we propose a Spatio-temporal Conditional Denoising Transformer (SCDT), which integrates the spatial cues and the temporal context to adaptively perform information reconstruction of missing modalities and feature enhancement of weak modalities in a unified framework, for robust modality-missing RGBT tracking. In particular, SCDT leverages the short-term temporal cues from recent historical frames to capture the fine-grained temporal correlations and the long-term temporal cues encoding modality evolution to capture the global context. By jointly exploiting long short-term temporal contexts as the conditions, SCDT progressively guides noisy features of available modalities to learn reliable and temporally consistent multimodal representations. Furthermore, SCDT introduces a noisemodulated adaptation mechanism that dynamically adjusts its behavior according to the modal availability, enabling a single framework to unify feature learning under both modality-missing and complete scenarios without changing the architecture or parameters. Extensive experiments on three public benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods. The code is available here.

DRGBT-1K: A Large-scale High-quality Benchmark for Dynamic RGBT Tracking

Dynamic RGBT (DRGBT) tracking aims to continuously localize a target when the available sensing modalities and observation platforms vary over time. Compared with conventional RGBT tracking with fixed RGBT inputs and a fixed observation platform, DRGBT tracking is more consistent with real-world collaborative perception systems, where targets may be observed by heterogeneous sensors from different viewpoints. However, existing benchmarks are still insufficient for systematically evaluating tracker robustness under real dynamic modality variations and cross-platform transitions. To address this limitation, we make the following contributions. 1) We construct DRGBT-1K, a large-scale high-quality benchmark for DRGBT tracking. It contains 1,045 sequences captured entirely in real-world scenarios and 795K RGBT frame pairs collected using UAVs and handheld RGBT devices, encompassing diverse real-world scenes, pronounced viewpoint changes, modality variations, and target appearance discontinuities. 2) We provide comprehensive annotations for fine-grained evaluation, including dense bounding boxes, target category labels, challenge attributes, frame-level modality labels and platform labels. DRGBT-1K covers 24 target categories, more than 15 scene types and 15 challenge attributes. 3) We establish a comprehensive benchmark by evaluating 20 representative multimodal tracking methods, including conventional RGBT trackers, modality-missing RGBT trackers, and DRGBT trackers under a unified evaluation protocol. 4) We release an unaligned version of DRGBT-1K and derive UGVT-1K to support broader research on unaligned multimodal tracking and UAV-ground collaborative tracking. 5) We develop an online evaluation platform for DRGBT-1K and provide a leaderboard that collects all methods evaluated on this benchmark.

Cross-Modal UAV Object Tracking: State-Aware Representation Learning and A Unified Benchmark

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) object tracking has emerged as a popular research field with broad practical applications. Modern UAVs are increasingly equipped with both visible light and thermal infrared sensors. However, due to constraints in communication bandwidth, computational resources and power consumption, current systems often activate one modality and switch between modalities to maintain robust tracking in complex scenarios. Such modality switch inevitably leads to significant appearance change and sudden spatial shift, posing great challenges for existing tracking algorithms. To handle this problem, we propose a novel State-Aware Representation Learning Approach called SARLA, which perceives the inconsistent modality states of current frame with template and last frame in the target representations to adapt to the sudden changes in both appearance and position, for robust cross-modal object tracking. In particular, we propose the Modality State Aware Representation Module (MSARM) and Spatial State Aware Representation Module (SSARM). MSARM guides the model to learn appearance correlation, bridging the modality gap, while SSARM models cross-frame spatial correlation to mitigate sudden spatial shift impacts. In addition, we design a spatial shift prediction loss to further handle the effects of spatial variation caused by modality switch. To promote the development of this research field, we establish a large-scale video benchmark called CM-UOT, which consists of 1079 cross-modal sequences with an average video length greater than 621 frames and encompasses over 671K frames in total. Extensive experiments on CM-UOT dataset demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed SARLA against 20 excellent tracking methods. The source code, datasets, and evaluation protocols associated with this work are publicly available at: https://github.com/hongsmile365/sarla-.

Learning-Driven Channel Representation for Wireless Localization: From Channel Observations to Location Inference

Wireless observations capture radio signal responses formed through interactions with propagation environments and spatial geometry. In integrated sensing and communication, such observations have become an important basis for high-accuracy localization beyond conventional channel estimation. Learning-driven methods learn implicit relations between channel propagation and spatial position, enabling location inference under complex channel conditions. However, the useful information is tightly coupled with environmental layout, temporal dynamics, hardware differences, and system configurations. This coupling obscures the inference process and weakens performance consistency across scenarios. In this paper, we model the localization process as a unified ``wireless observation--channel representation--location inference'' framework, and review learning-driven high-accuracy localization techniques with channel representations as the organizing view. The survey covers typical channel observation forms and analyzes their physical meanings. We also review channel feature extraction and representation learning methods, and summarize methods according to the acquisition, organization, adaptation, and reuse of channel representations. Typical methods are compared in terms of accuracy, applicable conditions, data requirements, and generalization. We highlight that the quality and usability of channel representations are critical to exploiting propagation information, and thus play a decisive role in localization performance. Finally, we summarize the key challenges in moving from experimental studies to real deployment and present our perspectives on these issues.

Dual-Correlation Hypergraph Network for Unaligned RGBT Video Object Detection and A Large-scale Benchmark

RGB-Thermal (RGBT) Video Object Detection (VOD) has gained significant traction due to its ability to overcome the limitations of conventional RGB-based VOD under challenging conditions. However, spatial misalignment commonly exists between RGBT image pairs. To address this, we propose a Dual-Correlation Hypergraph Network (DHNet) that captures high-dimensional complementary information by explicitly modeling two types of correlations: temporal correlation across consecutive frames and spatial correlation from cross-modal features. Specifically, we first design a Patch-based Spatial Alignment Module (PSAM) to sequentially align the multimodal features at the local region level. Subsequently, we introduce a Dual Hypergraph Fusion Module (DHFM), which constructs separate temporal and multimodal hypergraphs to enhance object discriminability through dual-correlation learning. Furthermore, the field currently lacks a large-scale, scene-diverse benchmark dataset for comprehensive evaluation. To address this gap, we construct DVT-VOD1000, a large-scale RGBT VOD dataset containing 1,000 video sequences with 103,464 RGBT image pairs. The dataset covers diverse scenarios, including campuses, parks, transportation, rural areas, night scenes, rain, and snow. Comprehensive experiments on VT-VOD50 and our DVT-VOD1000 demonstrate that DHNet achieves state-of-the-art detection accuracy. The dataset and source code will be made publicly available on https://github.com/tzz-ahu/ to support academic research.

Mixture of Enhanced-View Experts for Multi-Query Vehicle ReID and A Large-Scale Benchmark

Multi-query vehicle ReID aims to leverage complementary information from diverse views for robust feature learning. However, current methods suffer from simplistic feature fusion and thus easily ignores some important view information and cross-view relationships. To handle these problems, this work presents a novel approach called Mixture of Enhanced-View Experts (EV-MoE), which enhances the feature representation of each view and efficiently integrate the view-specific enhanced features by MoE, for robust multi-query ReID. In particular, we design a mixture of enhanced-view experts module, which consists of two parts including view-specific feature enhancement sub-Module (VFEM) and dynamic multi-view fusion sub-Module (DMFM). Moreover, we further introduce Multi-view Alignment Loss (MAL), which aligns features through bidirectional crossview contrastive learning and reconstruction constraints, addressing the challenges of consistency between multi-query features and single-image features. In addition, to evaluate multi-query ReID in real-world environments, we collect LCRI-1K, a largescale vehicle ReID dataset with 1,090 identities, 107,805 images, across 23,637 cameras, where each vehicle appears in an average of 67.5 cameras, providing a comprehensive benchmark to test the robustness in complex environments. Extensive experiments demonstrate the robustness of CAFNet in addressing the multiquery vehicle ReID problem. The code is available at https: //github.com/xiaozhen28/CAFNet.

Analogies between Transformer Layers and Power Method

In the paper we show that there is an analogy between the operations occurring in a layer of a transformer (projections and layer normalizations, disregarding the feedforward neural network) and a step in the power method. Coherently with this analogy, we show that passing through a layer the tokens tend to be tilted towards the principal eigenvector of a matrix which is the product of the output and value weight matrices of that layer. In the special case of a transformer with shared weights (i.e., in which all layers have identical weights) then the alignment with this principal eigenvector is particularly evident empirically, and can also be shown analytically. The analogy also suggests a method to steer the output of the transformer towards an arbitrary desired direction in token space.

T2I-VeRW: Part-level Fine-grained Perception for Text-to-Image Vehicle Retrieval

Vehicle Re-identification (Re-ID) aims to retrieve the most similar image to a given query from images captured by non-overlapping cameras. Extending vehicle Re-ID from image-only queries to text-based queries enables retrieval in real-world scenarios where only a witness description of the target vehicle is available. In this paper, we propose PFCVR, a Part-level Fine-grained Cross-modal Vehicle Retrieval model for text-to-image vehicle re-identification. PFCVR constructs locally paired images and texts at the part level and introduces learnable part-query tokens that aggregate both part-specific and full-sentence context before aligning with visual part features. On top of this explicit local alignment, a bi-directional mask recovery module lets each modality reconstruct its masked content under the guidance of the other, implicitly bridging local correspondences into global feature alignment. Furthermore, we construct a new large-scale dataset called T2I-VeRW, which contains 14,668 images covering 1,796 vehicle identities with fine-grained part-level annotations. Experimental results on the T2I-VeRI dataset show that PFCVR achieves 29.2\% Rank-1 accuracy, improving over the best competing method by +3.7\% percentage points. On the newly proposed T2I-VeRW benchmark, PFCVR achieves 55.2\% Rank-1 accuracy, outperforming a comprehensive set of recent state-of-the-art methods. Source code will be released on https://github.com/Event-AHU/Neuromorphic_ReID