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The Fusion Model Learned Which Sensor Should Lead

Prompt-guided infrared-visible fusion won 14 of 20 reported quality metrics across five benchmarks.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-14-015
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Summary

Prompt-guided infrared-visible fusion won 14 of 20 reported quality metrics across five benchmarks.

P2Fusion distills modality-specific priors and uses progressive expert routing to mediate thermal and texture competition. Object detection improved by up to 3.2 mAP points on the reported downstream tests; the result is benchmark evidence, not a universal perception guarantee.

Why it matters

Prompt-guided infrared-visible fusion won 14 of 20 reported quality metrics across five benchmarks.

Limits and context

  • Object detection improved by up to 3.2 mAP points on the reported downstream tests; the result is benchmark evidence, not a universal perception guarantee.

Key claims

  1. Prompt-guided infrared-visible fusion won 14 of 20 reported quality metrics across five benchmarks.

    Qualification: Object detection improved by up to 3.2 mAP points on the reported downstream tests; the result is benchmark evidence, not a universal perception guarantee.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-14-017

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.13045arXiv · primary research

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