Camouflaged Target Detection Based on Cross Modal Frequency-Domain Feature Enhancement and Text-Driven Fusion Network

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Authors: Jie Lai, Jie Geng, Ruihui Peng, Wen Jiang
Cited by: 1
References: 34

Abstract

Camouflaged target detection (CTD) is a challenging task that involves identifying targets with high visual similarity to their surroundings. Existing methods primarily focus on spatial-domain features, while cross-modal fusion often lacks guidance from high-level semantics, leading to features that are not sufficiently discriminative and are prone to noise interference. To address these issues, we proposes an innovative cross modal frequency-domain feature enhancement and text-driven fusion network (CMFT). First, high-level semantic information is extracted from descriptive text by a frozen CLIP text encoder to provide precise semantic guidance for subsequent fusion. Next, a frequency-domain collaborative enhancement (FDC) module is constructed to enhance high-frequency details in shallow layers and compensate for low-frequency global information in deep layers, thereby improving both the target's detailed texture and global structure in the feature space. Then, a text-driven coupled affine fusion (TCF) module is designed to dynamically generate scaling and translation parameters based on text embeddings, achieving adaptive alignment and fusion of visible and infrared features. Finally, a quality-aware intersection over union loss is introduced to provide sample quality-aware supervision for bounding-box regression, thereby strengthening the learning of reliable predictions and reducing interference from low-quality samples. Experimental results show that CMFT outperforms existing methods on both custom and public benchmark datasets.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Visual Attention and Saliency Detection Face recognition and analysis Emotion and Mood Recognition

Publication details

Journal / source
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Volume
62
Pages
12057–12069
Publication date
1 January 2026