Enhancing RGB-IR object detection: a frozen backbone approach with multi-receptive field attention
摘要
Recent advancements in multimodal object detection have predominantly relied on end-to-end training paradigms, which, while effective, demand substantial computational resources and risk feature degradation. To address these challenges, we propose a frozen backbone paradigm, preserving pretrained representations as stable semantic anchors for efficient multimodal fusion. Our approach introduces a lightweight multi-receptive field attention (MRFA) mechanism, enhancing feature interaction and representation diversity without exhaustive retraining. Experiments on the FLIR Aligned and M