Multi-Scale Feature Fusion

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Multi-scale feature fusion studies how to combine coarse contextual information with fine spatial, temporal, or spectral details. Common approaches include feature pyramids and skip connections, attention or gated fusion, cross-scale alignment, and adaptive routing across CNN, Transformer, and state-space models. These methods are used in settings such as small-object detection, medical and remote-sensing segmentation, time-series forecasting, and multimodal perception. A central challenge is preserving useful detail while aligning scales and avoiding redundant computation, with results often depending on the task, data, and model size.

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  1. FSMC-Pose: Frequency and Spatial Fusion with Multiscale Self-calibration for Cattle Mounting Pose Estimation

    Mar 17, 2026Fangjing Li, Zhihai Wang, Xinxin Ding +5Object Pose EstimationAgricultural Image Analysis

    Beijing Jiaotong University · NERCITA · Tsinghua University +1

  2. CrossADR: enhancing adverse drug reactions prediction for combination pharmacotherapy with cross-layer feature integration and cross-level associative learning

    Mar 16, 2026Y. CheungClinical Risk PredictionGraph Neural Networks

    School of Mathematical Sciences and Shanghai Key Laboratory of PMMP, East China Normal University, 200241, Shanghai, China

  3. RadarXFormer: Robust Object Detection via Cross-Dimension Fusion of 4D Radar Spectra and Images for Autonomous Driving

    Mar 16, 2026Yue Sun, Yeqiang Qian, Zhe Wang +3Autonomous Driving Perception3D Object Detection

    Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China. · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China. · Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China. +2

  4. Multi-Task Genetic Algorithm with Multi-Granularity Encoding for Protein-Nucleotide Binding Site Prediction

    Mar 16, 2026Yiming Gao, Liuyi Xu, Pengshan Cui +3Multi-Task LearningMulti-Scale Feature Fusion

    College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · Key Laboratory of Data Analytics and Optimization for Smart Industry, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang, 110819, China

  5. Multi-Period Texture Contrast Enhancement for Low-Contrast Wafer Defect Detection and Segmentation

    Mar 15, 2026Zihan ZhangImage SegmentationIndustrial Anomaly Detection

    Engineering Technology Research Center of Henan Province for MEMS Manufacturing and Applications, School of Mechanics and Safety Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China

  6. DualSwinFusionSeg: Multimodal Martian Landslide Segmentation via Dual Swin Transformer with Multi-Scale Fusion and UNet++

    Mar 14, 2026Shahriar Kabir, Abdullah Muhammed Amimul Ehsan, Istiak Ahmmed Rifti +1Multimodal Semantic SegmentationImage Segmentation

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh · University of California, Riverside, USA

  7. Fusion Learning from Dynamic Functional Connectivity: Combining the Amplitude and Phase of fMRI Signals to Identify Brain Disorders

    Mar 14, 2026Jinlong Hu, Jiatong Huang, Zijian CaiDynamic Functional ConnectivityFunctional Connectivity

    Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Multimodal Big Data Intelligent Analysis, School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

  8. G2HFNet: GeoGran-Aware Hierarchical Feature Fusion Network for Salient Object Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Images

    Mar 13, 2026Bin Wan, Runmin Cong, Xiaofei Zhou +3Salient Object DetectionRemote Sensing

    the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250061, China, and also with State Key Laboratory of Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned Systems, Shanghai 201210, China · School of Automation, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China · School of information engineering, Huzhou University, Huzhou 313000, China +1

  9. A Deformable Attention-Based Detection Transformer with Cross-Scale Feature Fusion for Industrial Coil Spring Inspection

    Mar 13, 2026Matteo Rossi, Pony MattDetection TransformerIndustrial Inspection

    Maharaja Agrasen University

  10. DCAU-Net: Differential Cross Attention and Channel-Spatial Feature Fusion for Medical Image Segmentation

    Mar 10, 2026Yanxin Li, Hui Wan, Libin LanMedical Image SegmentationCross-Attention

    College of Computer Science and Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, China

  11. Enhanced Protein Intrinsic Disorder Prediction Through Dual-View Multiscale Features and Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithm

    Mar 6, 2026Shaokuan Wang, Pengshan Cui, Yining Qian +2Multi-Scale Feature FusionProtein Structure Prediction

    College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China · Key Laboratory of Data Analytics and Optimization for Smart Industry, Ministry of Education, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, China

  12. CollabOD: Collaborative Multi-Backbone with Cross-scale Vision for UAV Small Object Detection

    Mar 6, 2026Xuecheng Bai, Yuxiang Wang, Chuanzhi Xu +3Efficient Object DetectionSmall Object Detection

    Aviation Traffic Control Technology (SHENZHEN) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China · The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia · Research Institute of Traffic Control Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China +1

  13. RMK RetinaNet: Rotated Multi-Kernel RetinaNet for Robust Oriented Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Mar 5, 2026Huiran SunObject DetectionAerial Object Detection

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Technology, 2055 Yan’an Street, Chaoyang District, Changchun, 130012, Jilin Province, China

  14. Small Object Detection in Complex Backgrounds with Multi-Scale Attention and Global Relation Modeling

    Mar 4, 2026Wenguang Tao, Xiaotian Wang, Tian Yan +2Long-Range Dependency ModelingSmall Object Detection

    Unmanned System Research Institute, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

  15. SMR-Net:Robot Snap Detection Based on Multi-Scale Features and Self-Attention Network

    Mar 1, 2026Kuanxu HouObject DetectionRobotic Assembly

  16. MuViT: Multi-Resolution Vision Transformers for Learning Across Scales in Microscopy

    Feb 27, 2026Albert Dominguez Mantes, Gioele La Manno, Martin WeigertVision TransformerMicroscopy Image Analysis

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland · Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (ScaDS.AI) Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

  17. Hierarchical Multi-Scale Graph Learning with Knowledge-Guided Attention for Whole-Slide Image Survival Analysis

    Feb 26, 2026Bin Xu, Yufei Zhou, Boling Song +6Hierarchical GNNsCancer Survival Prediction

    Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China · Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA +4

  18. SpectralMamba-UNet: Frequency-Disentangled State Space Modeling for Texture-Structure Consistent Medical Image Segmentation

    Feb 26, 2026Fuhao Zhang, Lei Liu, Jialin Zhang +2Medical Image SegmentationVisual SSMs

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610068, China · Zhejiang University & Ant Group, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China · State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China

  19. Small Object Detection Model with Spatial Laplacian Pyramid Attention and Multi-Scale Features Enhancement in Aerial Images

    Feb 26, 2026Zhangjian Ji, Huijia Yan, Shaotong Qiao +2Small Object DetectionRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Key Laboratory of Computational Intelligence and Chinese Information Processing of Ministry of Education, School of Computer and Information Technology, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China

  20. Mixed Magnification Aggregation for Generalizable Region-Level Representations in Computational Pathology

    Feb 25, 2026Eric Zimmermann, Julian Viret, Michal Zelechowski +7Computational PathologyMedical Image Representation Learning

    Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, United States · Paige, NYC, NY, United States

  21. Learning Recursive Multi-Scale Representations for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

    Feb 25, 2026Boyuan Li, Zhen Liu, Yicheng Luo +1Irregular Time-Series ModelingMultivariate Time Series Forecasting

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology

  22. M3S-Net: Multimodal Feature Fusion Network Based on Multi-scale Data for Ultra-short-term PV Power Forecasting

    Feb 23, 2026Penghui Niu, Taotao Cai, Suqi Zhang +4Solar Power ForecastingMultimodal Fusion

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China · University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 487-535, Australia · School of Information Engineering, Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, China +3

  23. Efficient Image Super-Resolution with Multi-Scale Spatial Adaptive Attention Networks

    Feb 22, 2026Sushi Rao, Jingwei LiImage Super-ResolutionMulti-Scale Attention

    Zhejiang Gongshang University

  24. SEMixer: Semantics Enhanced MLP-Mixer for Multiscale Mixing and Long-term Time Series Forecasting

    Feb 18, 2026Xu Zhang, Qitong Wang, Peng Wang +1Long-Term Time Series ForecastingMulti-Scale Feature Fusion

    Shanghai Key Laboratory of Data Science, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

  25. FGAA-FPN: Foreground-Guided Angle-Aware Feature Pyramid Network for Oriented Object Detection

    Feb 11, 2026Jialin MaMulti-Scale Feature FusionObject Detection

    International school of BUPT, Beijing University Of Posts And Telecommunications, Beijing,China.

  26. Multi-encoder ConvNeXt Network with Smooth Attentional Feature Fusion for Multispectral Semantic Segmentation

    Feb 8, 2026Leo Thomas Ramos, Angel D. SappaSemantic SegmentationRemote Sensing Image Segmentation

    Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 08193, Spain · ESPOL Polytechnic University, Guayaquil, 090112, Ecuador

  27. GPF-Net: Gated Progressive Fusion Learning for Polyp Re-Identification

    Dec 25, 2025Suncheng Xiang, Xiaoyang Wang, Junjie Jiang +2Multi-Scale Feature FusionMultimodal Fusion

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Peking University · Shanghai Fifth People’s Hospital

  28. MSRNet: A Multi-Scale Recursive Network for Camouflaged Object Detection

    Nov 16, 2025Leena Alghamdi, Muhammad Usman, Hafeez Anwar +2Multi-Scale Feature FusionIterative Refinement

    King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KSA · Ontario Tech University, Canada · National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Pakistan +2

  29. DWFF-Net: A Multi-Scale Farmland System Habitat Identification Method with Adaptive Dynamic Weight Feature Fusion

    Nov 11, 2025Kesong Zheng, Zhi Song, Peizhou Li +4Agricultural Image AnalysisMulti-Scale Feature Fusion

    National Engineering Research Center of Geographic Information System, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China · College of Science, Shenyang Agricultural University, Liaoning, China · College of Engineering, Shenyang Agricultural University, Liaoning, China +2

  30. FMC-DETR: Frequency-Decoupled Multi-Domain Coordination for Aerial-View Object Detection

    Sep 27, 2025Ben Liang, Hongguang Wei, Yuan Liu +4Aerial Object DetectionRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    School of Electronic Engineering and Optoelectronic Technology, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China · State Key Laboratory of Extreme Environment Optoelectronic Dynamic Measurement Technology and Instrument, Nanjing 210094, China