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Multi-Modality Sensing Data Analysis and Its Application in Image Processing and Vision

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 604

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Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in sensing technologies have enabled the acquisition of rich multi-modality data, including images, videos, depth, radar, LiDAR, hyperspectral data, biomedical data, and other heterogeneous sensor signals. Effectively analyzing and fusing such multi-modality sensing data has become a critical research topic, particularly for image processing and computer vision applications, where complementary information from different sensors can significantly enhance perception, robustness, and interpretability.

This Special Issue will provide a comprehensive forum for researchers and practitioners to present the latest theoretical developments, algorithmic innovations, and practical applications related to multi-modality sensing data analysis and its integration into image processing and vision systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, multi-sensor data fusion, cross-modality representation learning, deep learning for multi-modal perception, and real-world applications such as autonomous systems, remote sensing, medical imaging, smart cities, and human–computer interaction.

By bringing together cutting-edge methodologies and emerging applications, this Special Issue will advance the state of the art and foster interdisciplinary collaboration in multi-modality sensing and vision research.

Dr. Xiaohao Cai
Prof. Dr. Gaohang Yu
Prof. Dr. Xi-Le Zhao
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Dr. Jiahui Liu
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Keywords

  • multi-sensor data fusion
  • multi-modality sensing
  • multimodal data analysis
  • multimodal representation learning
  • cross-modality learning
  • feature extraction and fusion
  • trustworthy and interpretable multimodal AI
  • image processing
  • computer vision
  • deep learning for multimodal data
  • vision-based sensing
  • three-dimensional vision and depth sensing
  • hyperspectral and multispectral imaging
  • LiDAR, radar, and RGB data integration
  • medical image analysis
  • remote sensing and earth observation
  • autonomous systems and robotics
  • human–computer interaction
  • intelligent perception systems

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BEATSCORE: Beat-Synchronous Contrastive Alignment and Event-Centric Grading for Long-Term Sports Assessment
by Lijie Wang, Jianyong Zhu, Houlei Wang and Xiaochao Li
Sensors 2026, 26(7), 2157; https://doi.org/10.3390/s26072157 - 31 Mar 2026
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Long-term sports assessment is a challenging task in video understanding, since it requires judging subtle movement variations over minutes and evaluating action–music coordination. However, in many sporting events the background music is only weakly related to the performed movements, and the cues that [...] Read more.
Long-term sports assessment is a challenging task in video understanding, since it requires judging subtle movement variations over minutes and evaluating action–music coordination. However, in many sporting events the background music is only weakly related to the performed movements, and the cues that matter for synchrony are often temporal and structural, such as small phase or tempo deviations that occur around decisive moments, rather than semantic correspondences between audio content and action categories. Prior approaches typically rely on implicit cross-modal fusion over dense sequences to learn such weak associations, which can smooth out near-miss misalignment and become brittle under tempo or phase shifts. To address this issue, we propose BEATSCORE, a beat-guided audio–visual learning framework that explicitly models action–music alignment at the beat level and performs event-centric sparse grading for long videos. In our framework, we first convert audio and motion into beat-synchronous tokens, enabling direct comparison on a unified rhythmic timeline. We then introduce a beat-level contrastive objective with near-offset hard negatives to sharpen sensitivity to misalignment. To handle the sparsity of decisive moments, we further design an event proposal and grading module that scores a small set of key segments and aggregates them via learnable multiple-instance pooling into a final assessment score. We evaluate BEATSCORE on public long-term sports benchmarks to demonstrate improved accuracy with competitive efficiency. Full article
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