# FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared-Style Remote Sensing Dataset for Cross-Modal Vision-Language Learning

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17020 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.17020/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Embodied and 3D vision-language models, one of 16 directions in Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models.
- Builds on 16 of its 30 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Jun 2026.

## Placed in

- Multimodal LLMs / vision-language models / [Embodied and 3D vision-language models](https://mlsanity.com/mllm/embodied-and-3d-vision-language-models/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Scaling Up Visual and Vision-Language Representation Learning With Noisy Text Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.05918/) (2021)
- [Reproducible scaling laws for contrastive language-image learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.07143/) (2022)
- [RemoteCLIP: A Vision Language Foundation Model for Remote Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.11029/) (2023)
- [GeoChat: Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.15826/) (2023)
- [Target-aware Dual Adversarial Learning and a Multi-scenario Multi-Modality Benchmark to Fuse Infrared and Visible for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.16220/) (2022)
- [RSVQA: Visual Question Answering for Remote Sensing Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07333/) (2020)
- [Exploring Models and Data for Remote Sensing Image Caption Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1712.07835/) (2017)
- [Drone-based RGB-Infrared Cross-Modality Vehicle Detection via Uncertainty-Aware Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.02437/) (2020)
- [RS5M and GeoRSCLIP: A Large Scale Vision-Language Dataset and A Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.11300/) (2023)
- [SkyScript: A Large and Semantically Diverse Vision-Language Dataset for Remote Sensing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.12856/) (2023)
- [HIT-UAV: A high-altitude infrared thermal dataset for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-based object detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.03245/) (2022)
- [Edge-guided Multi-domain RGB-to-TIR image Translation for Training Vision Tasks with Challenging Labels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12689/) (2023)
- [Caltech Aerial RGB-Thermal Dataset in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.08997/) (2024)
- [DiffV2IR: Visible-to-Infrared Diffusion Model via Vision-Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.19012/) (2025)
- [IRGPT: Understanding Real-world Infrared Image with Bi-cross-modal Curriculum on Large-scale Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.14449/) (2025)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [MonoIR-RS: Infrared Remote Sensing Vision-Language Learning with CLIP and VLM Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.06552/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Remote sensing vision-language models have advanced Earth observation, but available large-scale vision-language resources remain RGB-centered, leaving complementary infrared information underexplored. Infrared observations provide distinctive intensity structures, object boundaries, and illumination-invariant cues that complement conventional RGB imagery, yet large-scale RGB-infrared-text resources remain scarce. We introduce FusionRS, the first large-scale RGB-infrared-style-text dataset for controlled dual-modal remote sensing vision-language learning. It contains 600,000 spatially aligned pairs created by translating diverse public RGB remote sensing images into infrared-style counterparts. Each pair retains a conventional scene caption, and a curated subset adds 45,913 IR-aware captions describing observable intensity, contrast, texture, and structure while preserving scene semantics. We train CLIP-style models for RGB-infrared-style-text alignment and adapt a generative vision-language model with mixed task-conditioned caption supervision. Evaluation covers cross-modal retrieval, scaling and supervision ablations, sensor-captured transfer, and strictly held-out captioning and VQA. FusionRS substantially improves RGB-infrared-style alignment and infrared-to-text retrieval over RGB-only and non-IR-aware settings. Ablations show that IR-aware captions improve task-conditioned infrared description, demonstrating the value of modality-specific supervision. FusionRS provides a scalable foundation for controlled RGB-infrared remote sensing vision-language learning.