arXiv · 2606.17020
FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared-Style Remote Sensing Dataset for Cross-Modal Vision-Language Learning
Abstract
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.
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Jiaju Han, Ben Zhang, Xuemeng Sun, Qike Zhang, Yuxian Dong, Dingyi Lu, Chengyin Hu, Luwei Yang, Fengyu Zhang, Yiwei Wei, Jiujiang Guo. 2026-06-15. FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared-Style Remote Sensing Dataset for Cross-Modal Vision-Language Learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17020
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