PRISM: Rethinking Scattered Atmosphere Reconstruction as a Unified Understanding and Generation Model for Real-world DehazingChengyu Fang, Chunming He, Yuelin Zhang et al.
Real-world image dehazing (RID) aims to remove haze induced degradation from real scenes. This task remains challenging due to non-uniform haze distribution, spatially varying illumination from multiple light sources, and the scarcity of paired real hazy-clean data. In PRISM, we propose Proximal Scattered Atmosphere Reconstruction (PSAR), a physically structured framework that jointly reconstructs the clear scene and scattering variables under the atmospheric scattering model, thereby improving reliability in complex regions and mixed-light conditions. To bridge the synthetic-to-real gap, we design an online non-uniform haze synthesis pipeline and a Selective Self-distillation Adaptation scheme for unpaired real-world scenarios, which enables the model to selectively learn from high-quality perceptual targets while leveraging its intrinsic scattering understanding to audit residual haze and guide self-refinement. Extensive experiments on real-world benchmarks demonstrate that PRISM achieves state-of-the-art performance on RID tasks.
Integrating Extra Modality Helps Segmentor Find Camouflaged Objects WellChengyu Fang, Chunming He, Longxiang Tang et al. · tsinghua
Camouflaged Object Segmentation (COS) remains challenging because camouflaged objects exhibit only subtle visual differences from their backgrounds and single-modality RGB methods provide limited cues, leading researchers to explore multimodal data to improve segmentation accuracy. In this work, we presenet MultiCOS, a novel framework that effectively leverages diverse data modalities to improve segmentation performance. MultiCOS comprises two modules: Bi-space Fusion Segmentor (BFSer), which employs a state space and a latent space fusion mechanism to integrate cross-modal features within a shared representation and employs a fusion-feedback mechanism to refine context-specific features, and Cross-modal Knowledge Learner (CKLer), which leverages external multimodal datasets to generate pseudo-modal inputs and establish cross-modal semantic associations, transferring knowledge to COS models when real multimodal pairs are missing. When real multimodal COS data are unavailable, CKLer yields additional segmentation gains using only non-COS multimodal sources. Experiments on standard COS benchmarks show that BFSer outperforms existing multimodal baselines with both real and pseudo-modal data. Code will be released at \href{https://github.com/cnyvfang/MultiCOS}{GitHub}.