Dual-Correlation Hypergraph Network for Unaligned RGBT Video Object Detection and A Large-scale Benchmark

Qishun Wang; Yapeng Li; Zhengzheng Tu; Chenglong Li; Bin Luo

cs.CVJul 9, 2026

Dual-Correlation Hypergraph Network for Unaligned RGBT Video Object Detection and A Large-scale Benchmark

Authors: Qishun Wang, Yapeng Li, Zhengzheng Tu, Chenglong Li, Bin Luo

Abstract

RGB-Thermal (RGBT) Video Object Detection (VOD) has gained significant attention because of the limitations of conventional RGB-based VOD methods under challenging conditions, such as low light, heavy fog, and adverse weather, etc. However, spatial misalignment commonly exists between RGBT image pairs. To address this, we propose a Dual-Correlation Hypergraph Network (DCHNet) that captures high-dimensional complementary information by explicitly modeling two types of correlations: temporal correlation across consecutive frames and spatial correlation from cross-modal features. Specifically, we first design a Patch-based Spatial Alignment Module (PSAM) to sequentially align the multimodal features at the local region level. Subsequently, we propose a Dual Hypergraph Fusion Module (DHFM), which constructs temporal and multimodal hypergraphs, respectively, to enhance object characteristic through dual-correlation learning. Furthermore, the field currently lacks a large-scale, scene-diverse benchmark dataset for comprehensive evaluation. Therefore, we construct DVT-VOD1000, a large-scale RGBT VOD dataset containing 1,000 video sequences with 103,464 RGBT image pairs. The dataset covers diverse scenarios, including campuses, parks, traffics, rural areas, night scenes, rainy weather, and snowy weather. Comprehensive experiments on VT-VOD50 and our DVT-VOD1000 demonstrate that DCHNet achieves state-of-the-art detection accuracy. The dataset and source code will be made publicly available on https://github.com/tzz-ahu/ to support academic research.

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