AMDANet: Attention-Driven Multi-Perspective Discrepancy Alignment for RGB-Infrared Image Fusion and Segmentation

The challenge of multimodal semantic segmentation lies in establishing semantically consistent and segmentable multimodal fusion features under conditions of significant visual feature discrepancies. Existing methods commonly construct cross-modal self-attention fusion frameworks or introduce additional multimodal fusion loss functions to establish fusion features. However, these approaches often overlook the challenge caused by feature discrepancies between modalities during the fusion process. To achieve precise segmentation, we propose an Attention-Driven Multimodal Discrepancy Alignment Network (AM-DANet). AMDANet reallocates weights to reduce the saliency of discrepant features and utilizes low-weight features as cues to mitigate discrepancies between modalities, thereby achieving multimodal feature alignment. Furthermore, to simplify the feature alignment process, a semantic consistency inference mechanism is introduced to reveal the network's inherent bias toward specific modalities, thereby compressing cross-modal feature discrepancies from the foundational level. Extensive experiments on the FMB, MFNet, and PST900 datasets demonstrate that AMDANet achieves mIoU improvements of 3.6%, 3.0%, and 1.6%, respectively, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at https://github.com/Zhonghaifeng6/AMDANet