Multimodal perception and fusion play a vital role in uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection. Existing methods typically adopt global fusion strategies across modalities. However, due to illumination variation, the effectiveness of RGB and infrared modalities may differ across local regions within the same image, particularly in UAV perspectives where occlusions and dense small objects are prevalent, leading to suboptimal performance of global fusion methods. To address this issue, we propose an adaptive fine-grained fusion network for multimodal UAV object detection. First, we design a local feature consistency-based modality fusion module, which adaptively assigns local fusion weights according to the structural consistency of high-response regions across modalities, thereby enabling more effective aggregation of object-relevant features. Second, we introduce a mutual information-guided feature contrastive loss to encourage the preservation of modality-specific information during the early training phase. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively addresses the issue of object occlusion in UAV perspectives, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multimodal UAV object detection benchmarks. Code will be available at https://github.com/lingf5877/AFFNet.

Multi-view data involves various data forms, such as multi-feature, multi-sequence and multimodal data, providing rich semantic information for downstream tasks. The inherent challenge of incomplete multi-view missing multi-label learning lies in how to effectively utilize limited supervision and insufficient data to learn discriminative representation. Starting from the sufficiency of multi-view shared information for downstream tasks, we argue that the existing contrastive learning paradigms on missing multi-view data show limited consistency representation learning ability, leading to the bottleneck in extracting multi-view shared information. In response, we propose to minimize task-independent redundant information by pursuing the maximization of cross-view mutual information. Additionally, to alleviate the hindrance caused by missing labels, we develop a dual-branch soft pseudo-label cross-imputation strategy to improve classification performance. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks validate our advantages and demonstrate strong compatibility with both missing and complete data.

Recently, multi-view multi-label classification (MvMLC) has received a significant amount of research interest and many methods have been proposed based on the assumptions of view completion and label completion. However, in real-world scenarios, multi-view multi-label data tends to be incomplete due to various uncertainties involved in data collection and manual annotation. As a result, the conventional MvMLC methods fail. In this paper, we propose a new two-stage MvMLC network to solve this incomplete MvMLC issue with partial missing views and missing labels. Different from the existing works, our method attempts to leverage the diverse information from the partially missing data based on the information theory. Specifically, our method aims to minimize task-irrelevant information while maximizing task-relevant information through the principles of information bottleneck theory and mutual information extraction. The first stage of our network involves training view-specific classifiers to concentrate the task-relevant information. Subsequently, in the second stage, the hidden states of these classifiers serve as input for an alignment model, an autoencoder-based mutual information extraction framework, and a weighted fusion classifier to make the final prediction. Extensive experiments performed on five datasets validate that our method outperforms other state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/KevinTan10/TSIEN.

In recent years, many incomplete multi-view clustering methods have been proposed to address the challenging and new clustering task on incomplete multi-view data whose part of view representations are not fully collected for some samples. Although extensive experiments have validated the effectiveness of these methods for handling the incomplete learning issue, a common issue exists, i.e., these methods all ignore the discriminative/important difference of discriminative features and noisy features. In this paper, to address the above issue, a new incomplete multi-view clustering model, called Graph Regularized and fEature Aware maTrix Factorization (GreatF), is proposed. Different from the existing methods, we introduce an adaptive feature weighting constraint to the matrix factorization-based multi-view representation learning model. With this weighting constraint, the effect of the discriminative features can be enhanced while the negative effect caused by the redundant and noisy features can be eliminated for the model optimization; thus, the robustness of the model can be enhanced. In addition, in this work, we designed a new graph-embedded consensus representation learning term in which consensus representation learning and structure information preservation are integrated into a joint model with one term. In particular, this term provides a more concise approach to obtain the structured consensus representation from incomplete multi-view data. Experimental results on four well-known datasets demonstrate that GreatF performs better than the state-of-the-art incomplete multi-view clustering methods.