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arxiv: 2606.03370 · v1 · pith:DK22M3GLnew · submitted 2026-06-02 · 📡 eess.IV

SMAC: Spatial-Modal Joint Modeling and Adaptive Representation Collapse for Multimodal Object Tracking

Meijing Gao , Qitai Sun , Huanyu Sun , Bingxuan Yang , Bingzhou Sun , Xu Chen , Yonghao Yan , Yuxuan Yang This is my paper

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keywords multimodal multi-object trackingspatial-modal fusionrepresentation collapsedistillation prompt guidanceadaptive fusioncomplex illuminationUniRTL dataset
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A spatial-modal fusion backbone with adaptive representation collapse improves multimodal multi-object tracking under complex illumination.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper presents a framework that jointly models spatial and modal features to overcome fixed fusion limitations in multimodal multi-object tracking. It builds a backbone with Basic modules using decoupled 3D convolution for spatial extraction and modal interaction, plus Mixed modules applying amplitude-phase decomposition for nonlinear cross-modal correlations. A representation collapse network then uses a Distillation Prompt Guidance module to generate dynamic modal weights under teacher supervision and a Global Modal Difference Aggregation module to retain discriminative information. Experiments on the UniRTL dataset report 63.31 HOTA and 79.21 MOTA on the RNT modality while preserving inference speed. If correct, this shows that adaptive weighting during collapse can produce more robust tracking when illumination varies across modalities.

Core claim

The authors establish that a spatial-modal fusion backbone—Basic modules performing spatial feature extraction and modal interaction via decoupled 3D convolution, Mixed modules modeling nonlinear cross-modal correlations through amplitude-phase decomposition—combined with a representation collapse network where Distillation Prompt Guidance generates dynamic modal weights under teacher supervision and Global Modal Difference Aggregation preserves discriminative information, enables adaptive multimodal fusion that outperforms several state-of-the-art methods on the UniRTL dataset.

What carries the argument

The spatial-modal convolution fusion and distillation-prompt-based multimodal MOT framework, where the DPG module produces dynamic weights and the GMDA module retains information during adaptive representation collapse.

If this is right

  • Multimodal trackers can achieve higher accuracy through dynamic modal weighting generated under teacher supervision.
  • Representation collapse can preserve discriminative cross-modal information while reducing the drawbacks of fixed fusion strategies.
  • The method maintains favorable inference efficiency alongside improved tracking metrics on RNT modality.
  • Public release of code and models enables direct reproduction and extension of the reported results.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same adaptive collapse approach could apply to other multimodal tasks such as detection or segmentation under varying conditions.
  • Reducing reliance on hand-tuned fusion weights might lower the engineering effort needed when adding new sensor modalities.
  • Testing the modules on datasets with different sensor combinations would reveal whether the performance gains hold outside the original modality set.

Load-bearing premise

The UniRTL dataset and its modalities represent complex real-world illumination conditions, and the DPG and GMDA modules produce adaptive weights that generalize beyond the reported experiments.

What would settle it

Running the tracker on a separate multimodal dataset containing illumination conditions absent from UniRTL and observing that its HOTA and MOTA scores no longer exceed those of prior state-of-the-art methods.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.03370 by Bingxuan Yang, Bingzhou Sun, Huanyu Sun, Meijing Gao, Qitai Sun, Xu Chen, Yonghao Yan, Yuxuan Yang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Performance comparison of different MOT methods on UniRTL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Illustration of different multimodal feature fusion strategies, including [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Block diagram of the proposed multimodal object tracking framework based on spatial-modal convolutional fusion and distillation prompts. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: The network consists of a Stem layer and multiple progres￾sive feature extraction stages, following a hierarchical design principle from low-level spatial details to high-level semantic representations, thereby gradually enhancing multimodal fea￾ture expressiveness. At shallow stages (Level 0–1), the network focuses on local spatial textures and edge structures, providing fundamental [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figu… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: 3D convolution for modeling spatial and modality interaction. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Network architecture of the Basic module. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Illustration of the Mixed convolution structure based on amplitude– [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Learning pipeline of the Distillation Prompt-Guided Network [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Architecture of the GMDA module ⊙ denotes the 3D convolution operation, and δ(·) denotes the ReLU activation function. Subsequently, Softmax normaliza￾tion is performed along the modality dimension to obtain the cross-modal weight tensor. Based on the learned weights, the multimodal features are adaptively fused to obtain the fused representation: Flow = X i∈{rgb,nir,tir} Wi ⊗ Fi (13) where Flow denotes t… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: The baseline model suffers from missed detections, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Visualization comparison of different module combinations under [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Visualization of amplitude and phase in MS-Mixed convolution. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Modality weight visualization under low-illumination conditions. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Modality weight visualization under medium-illumination conditions. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Visualization comparison of different methods under complex scenarios. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_16.png] view at source ↗
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Multimodal multi-object tracking (MOT) under complex illumination remains challenging due to insufficient joint modeling of spatial and modal features and the limited adaptability of fixed fusion strategies. To address these issues, this paper proposes a spatial-modal convolution fusion and distillation-prompt-based multimodal MOT framework. A spatial-modal fusion backbone is first constructed, where a Basic module performs spatial feature extraction and modal interaction via decoupled 3D convolution, while a Mixed module models nonlinear cross-modal correlations through amplitude-phase decomposition. In addition, a representation collapse network is designed for adaptive multimodal fusion. A Distillation Prompt Guidance (DPG) module generates dynamic modal weights under teacher supervision, and a Global Modal Difference Aggregation (GMDA) module preserves discriminative information during multimodal representation collapse. Extensive experiments on the UniRTL dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed tracker achieves 63.31 HOTA and 79.21 MOTA on the RNT modality, outperforming several state-of-the-art methods while maintaining favorable inference efficiency. The source code and pretrained models are publicly available at https://github.com/QitaiSun/SMAC.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes SMAC, a multimodal multi-object tracking framework consisting of a spatial-modal fusion backbone (Basic module with decoupled 3D convolution for spatial extraction and modal interaction; Mixed module with amplitude-phase decomposition for nonlinear cross-modal correlations) and a representation collapse network (DPG module for dynamic modal weights under teacher supervision; GMDA module for preserving discriminative information). It reports that the method achieves 63.31 HOTA and 79.21 MOTA on the RNT modality of the UniRTL dataset, outperforming several SOTA trackers while maintaining favorable inference efficiency, and releases code and pretrained models publicly.

Significance. If the performance claims hold under scrutiny, the work offers a concrete approach to adaptive multimodal fusion for illumination-challenged tracking. The public release of code and models is a clear strength that supports reproducibility and allows direct verification of the reported numbers.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experiments section] Experiments section: The central performance claims (63.31 HOTA / 79.21 MOTA on RNT) are presented as single aggregate values with no ablation studies on the DPG or GMDA modules, no error bars, and no details on run count or statistical significance. This is load-bearing because the abstract attributes superiority specifically to the adaptive representation collapse, yet without module-level ablations it is impossible to rule out that gains arise from hyperparameter choices or baseline components.
  2. [Method section (DPG/GMDA)] Method section (DPG/GMDA): The description of how the Distillation Prompt Guidance module generates dynamic weights and how the Global Modal Difference Aggregation module prevents loss of discriminative information during collapse lacks the explicit loss formulations, weight computation equations, or training protocol. These details are required to assess whether the claimed adaptability is realized in the implementation.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states 'favorable inference efficiency' but provides no concrete metrics (FPS, parameter count, or comparison table); adding these numbers would strengthen the efficiency claim without altering the central result.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will incorporate the suggested improvements in the revised version.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments section] Experiments section: The central performance claims (63.31 HOTA / 79.21 MOTA on RNT) are presented as single aggregate values with no ablation studies on the DPG or GMDA modules, no error bars, and no details on run count or statistical significance. This is load-bearing because the abstract attributes superiority specifically to the adaptive representation collapse, yet without module-level ablations it is impossible to rule out that gains arise from hyperparameter choices or baseline components.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of module-level ablations on DPG and GMDA, along with missing statistical details such as error bars, run counts, and significance testing, limits the ability to attribute gains specifically to the adaptive collapse components. In the revised manuscript, we will add dedicated ablation studies isolating the contributions of DPG and GMDA, report results averaged over multiple independent runs with standard deviations as error bars, and include details on the number of runs performed along with any statistical analysis. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method section (DPG/GMDA)] Method section (DPG/GMDA): The description of how the Distillation Prompt Guidance module generates dynamic weights and how the Global Modal Difference Aggregation module prevents loss of discriminative information during collapse lacks the explicit loss formulations, weight computation equations, or training protocol. These details are required to assess whether the claimed adaptability is realized in the implementation.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current method descriptions for DPG and GMDA are high-level and omit explicit mathematical formulations. In the revision, we will expand the method section to include the precise loss functions used in DPG for generating dynamic modal weights under teacher supervision, the equations for weight computation and modal interaction, the formulation of the GMDA module for preserving discriminative information, and the complete training protocol including hyperparameters and optimization details. revision: yes

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The paper describes an empirical multimodal MOT architecture (spatial-modal fusion backbone with Basic/Mixed modules, DPG and GMDA for adaptive fusion) and reports measured performance (63.31 HOTA / 79.21 MOTA on RNT modality of UniRTL). No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the text. Claims rest on experimental results and public code release rather than any self-referential reduction; the work is self-contained as a standard empirical contribution.

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