# DOD-SA: Infrared-Visible Decoupled Object Detection with Single-Modality Annotations

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10445 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.10445/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 37 of its 65 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 14 Aug 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

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- [End-to-End Semi-Supervised Object Detection with Soft Teacher](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09018/) (2021)
- [Unbiased Teacher for Semi-Supervised Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.09480/) (2021)
- [A Simple Semi-Supervised Learning Framework for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.04757/) (2020)
- [Oriented R-CNN for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05699/) (2021)
- [TOOD: Task-aligned One-stage Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.07755/) (2021)
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- [Oriented RepPoints for Aerial Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.11111/) (2021)
- [AutoAssign: Differentiable Label Assignment for Dense Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.03496/) (2020)
- [Cross-Modality Fusion Transformer for Multispectral Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.00273/) (2021)
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- [ICAFusion: Iterative Cross-Attention Guided Feature Fusion for Multispectral Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.07504/) (2023)
- [Illumination-aware Faster R-CNN for Robust Multispectral Pedestrian Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.05347/) (2018)
- [Unbiased Teacher v2: Semi-supervised Object Detection for Anchor-free and Anchor-based Detectors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.09500/) (2022)
- [C2Former: Calibrated and Complementary Transformer for RGB-Infrared Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.16175/) (2023)
- [Translation, Scale and Rotation: Cross-Modal Alignment Meets RGB-Infrared Vehicle Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.13801/) (2022)
- [Label Matching Semi-Supervised Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.06608/) (2022)
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- [DAMSDet: Dynamic Adaptive Multispectral Detection Transformer with Competitive Query Selection and Adaptive Feature Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.00326/) (2024)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Aligned Consensus Teaching for Label-Efficient Oriented Object Detection in Weakly-Aligned Visible-Infrared Imagery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.18124/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Infrared-visible object detection has shown great potential in real-world applications, enabling robust all-day perception by leveraging the complementary information of infrared and visible images. However, existing methods typically require dual-modality annotations to output decoupled detection results, leading to high annotation costs and limiting scalability in large-scale remote sensing applications. To address this challenge, we propose a novel infrared-visible Decoupled Object Detection framework with Single-modality Annotations, called DOD-SA. It is built upon a Single- and Dual-Modality Collaborative Teacher-Student Network (CoSD-TSNet), which consists of a single-modality branch (SM-Branch) and a dual-modality decoupled branch (DMD-Branch). This design enables cross-modality knowledge transfer from the labeled modality to the unlabeled modality, and facilitates effective cross-branch supervision. To further improve the quality of pseudo-labels, we introduce a Progressive and Self-Tuning Training Strategy (PaST) that trains the model in three stages: 1) SM-Branch self-training, 2) SM-Branch guiding the learning of DMD-Branch, and 3) DMD-Branch refinement. In addition, we design a Pseudo Label Assigner (PLA) to match labels across modalities, explicitly addressing modality misalignment during training.