#01Aug 6, 2026
cs.CV
CFGPNet: Cross-Attention-Based Fused Gradient Programmed Network Framework for Multispectral Object Detection
Nima Hatami, Karim Faez, Saeed Sharifian and 1 more
RGB--T object detection exploits the complementary strengths of visible and infrared imagery, supporting robust perception in low-light, adverse-weather, and complex multi-scale environments. However, existing methods still suffer from insufficient cross-modal interaction, unstable fusion from modality distribution gaps, and the high computational cost of heavy attention-based architectures. To address these issues, CFGPNet is proposed, a Cross-Attention-Based Fused Gradient Programmed Network framework for multispectral object detection. CFGPNet uses an improved GELAN backbone with RepViT-style re-parameterized blocks to strengthen feature representation while preserving computational efficiency. A Cross Computation Efficient Attention (CrossCEA) module is introduced to enhance cross-modal feature interaction and reduce redundant information transfer between visible and thermal branches. To generate compact and discriminative fused representations, an Attention Selection and Aggregation Fusion (ASAF) network combines dense feature aggregation with selective attention-based emphasis. Moreover, a programmable-gradient auxiliary branch is integrated into each CFGPNet variant to improve gradient delivery and optimization quality. Experiments on five public multispectral benchmarks, FLIR, M3FD, LLVIP, VEDAI, and MFAD, demonstrate that CFGPNet achieves strong and consistent performance across diverse scenes, object scales, and modality balances. In particular, the framework attains 80.7% mAP50 / 45.0% mAP50:95 on FLIR, 89.9% / 63.4% on M3FD, and 97.8% / 68.9% on LLVIP. It also reaches 83.3% / 56.9% on VEDAI and 83.4% / 61.8% on MFAD. These results show that CFGPNet is an effective, practical solution offering useful accuracy--efficiency trade-offs across three model scales. The code, data, and fine-tuned models are available at https://github.com/NimaHatami99/CFGPNet.
#02Aug 6, 2026
cs.CR
Reversible Unlearnable Examples: Towards the Copyright Protection in Deep Learning Era
Binze Wang, Jinyu Tian, Xingrun Wang and 2 more
Significant advancements in deep learning have been made possible by the utilization of large datasets, underscoring the critical importance of copyright protection. Adding meticulously designed perturbations to examples, making them unlearnable has become a crucial approach for safeguarding data copyright. Existing methods for creating unlearnable examples overlook the risk of data leakage, which can threaten data ownership. Thus, copyright protection in deep learning faces two main threats: illegal model training and malicious data leakage. We investigate that these two threats cannot be solved by straightforwardly combining existing availability attacks and watermarking techniques as their negative interaction effects. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel copyright protection mechanism for the aforementioned security concerns. Considering that the prevention of unauthorized model training requires powerful generalizability of unlearnable perturbations, we generate perturbations to induce the model to learn uncorrelated features of input images. It works by minimizing the mutual information of the input and output of the model. On the other hand, to eliminate the side impact of unlearnable perturbations on the watermark extraction, we design a dual extraction strategy by using two distinct watermark extractors. Extensive experiments on the image datasets {ImageNet, CIFAR10, and Pets} show that our proposed method could provide comprehensive copyright protection to images. The code is available at {https://github.com/Yeah21/ReversibleUnlearnableExamples}.
#03Aug 6, 2026
cs.CV
Learning from Failures: Retrieval-Centric CoT via Hard Negatives for Unified Multimodal Retrieval
Zelong Sun, Jun Wang, Kaicheng Yang and 3 more
Unified multimodal retrieval aims to identify candidates that satisfy complex user intent expressed through heterogeneous inputs. Although Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM)-based retrievers are efficient and scalable, directly encoding raw multimodal inputs often misses fine-grained discriminative cues, leading to confusion among semantically similar candidates. Recent methods mitigate this limitation by generating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) rationales to enrich the query representation. However, such reasoning is typically derived from the query alone: it explains what the query describes, but not what the retriever misunderstands. We argue that effective retrieval reasoning should instead be conditioned on retrieval feedback. Based on this insight, we introduce UniME-R1, an embedder-adviser framework that learns to reason over initially retrieved candidates and generate Retrieval-Centric Chain-of-Thought (RC-CoT). The adviser analyzes candidates individually to identify the discriminative cues confused by the embedder. If the target appears in the initial top-k set, UniME-R1 directly reranks the candidates; otherwise, it generates RC-CoT to refine the retrieval direction and performs full-corpus re-retrieval with a dual-mode embedder. To train the framework, we mine hard negatives to simulate realistic retrieval failures, jointly optimize direct retrieval and RC-CoT-augmented retrieval, and align the adviser with retrieval outcomes through supervised learning and retrieval-oriented reinforcement learning. Extensive experiments on MMEB-V2 and a diverse set of general multimodal retrieval benchmarks demonstrate that UniME-R1 consistently improves retrieval performance over strong baselines.
#04Aug 6, 2026
cs.CV
Dense-Cast: A lightweight ensemble of deep learning architectures for precipitation nowcasting
Gourav Jyoti Kalita, Hidam Kumarjit Singh
Proper short-term forecasting of precipitation is crucial in disaster management and preparedness. Nonetheless, the variability and nonlinearity of precipitation make short-term forecasting challenging for meteorologists. Moreover, capturing temporal dependencies in spatiotemporal data is a challenge in precipitation nowcasting. In this article, we introduce a lightweight deep learning model for half-hourly precipitation nowcasting. This model has been designed by incorporating the DenseNet architecture, residual connections, and transformer encoders for effective precipitation nowcasting with reduced model parameters. The North-Eastern region of India has been selected as the area of interest for our study. The region receives the highest precipitation during the months of June-September due to the monsoon season. The proposed model takes the previous five time-steps of half-hourly precipitation as inputs and predicts the precipitation in the next two half-hours. The GPM IMERG precipitation dataset with a 30-minute cadence has been used in this study for training and testing the model. The proposed architecture achieves best MAE of 0.235 millimetres, RMSE of 0.735 millimetres, and KGE score of 0.816 at an interval of 30 minutes.
#05Aug 6, 2026
cs.CV
EvReflection: Event-Driven Micro-Dynamics for Reflection Removal
Jiaxiao Wang, Dachun Kai, Huyue Zhu and 3 more
Despite remarkable progress in reflection removal, current methods primarily exploit static image priors from a single frame and still suffer from severe residual artifacts due to the inherent ambiguity between the reflection and transmission layers. In this paper, we propose leveraging event signals to break this ambiguity. By employing event cameras to capture micro-dynamics, we reveal the differential motion between these two layers. We thereby present a novel event-driven reflection removal network, EvReflection, that utilizes these dynamic cues for layer separation. Specifically, we design a Micro-Dynamics Decoupler to disentangle layer-specific motions from event streams as priors, which then guide a Parallax-Attention Rectifier to cleanly remove artifacts from the RGB image. Furthermore, to address data scarcity, we develop a parallax-aware simulation pipeline and construct the EVR$^2$ benchmark dataset, the first real-world dataset for this task. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EvReflection achieves state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real-world benchmarks, surpassing the best competing method by more than 1.6 dB and 1.2 dB in PSNR, respectively. The code, dataset, and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/JiaxiaoWang/EvReflection.