The goal of multi-modal learning is to use complimentary information on the relevant task provided by the multiple modalities to achieve reliable and robust performance. Recently, deep learning has led significant improvement in multi-modal learning by allowing for fusing high level features obtained at intermediate layers of the deep neural network. This paper addresses a problem of designing robust deep multimodal learning architecture in the presence of the modalities degraded in quality. We introduce deep fusion architecture for object detection which processes each modality using the separate convolutional neural network (CNN) and constructs the joint feature maps by combining the intermediate features obtained by the CNNs. In order to facilitate the robustness to the degraded modalities, we employ the gated information fusion (GIF) network which weights the contribution from each modality according to the input feature maps to be fused. The combining weights are determined by applying the convolutional layers followed by the sigmoid function to the concatenated intermediate feature maps. The whole network including the CNN backbone and GIF is trained in an end-toend fashion. Our experiments show that the proposed GIF network offers the additional architectural flexibility to achieve the robust performance in handling some degraded modalities.
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