Alignment-Aware and Reliability-Gated Multimodal Fusion for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detection Across Heterogeneous Thermal-Visual Sensors
This paper proposes two novel fusion strategies, Registration-aware Guided Image Fusion (RGIF) and Reliability-Gated Modality-Attention Fusion (RGMAF), which effectively integrate heterogeneous thermal and visual sensor data to significantly enhance unmanned aerial vehicle detection performance across diverse perspectives and resolutions.