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arXiv2026

Multimodal RGB-Infrared Combination for UAV-Based Wildfire Segmentation: A Comparative Study on FLAME3

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as a promising platform for firefighting operations due to their flexibility, low operational cost, and ability to acquire high-resolution imagery in locations that may be difficult or dangerous to access using conventional methods. Recent advances in deep learning have significantly improved the capabilities of UAV-based wildfire monitoring systems. The present work investigates RGB-infrared fusion for binary wildfire segmentation on the FLAME3 dataset. In this Study, RGB and Infrared baselines are compared with three representative fusion strategies across three segmentation architectures, including U-Net, DeepLabV3+, and SegFormer. The key motivation of this work is to analyze the contribution of each modality, evaluate the impact of fusion timing, and examine how different network architectures exploit multimodal information for UAV wildfire delineation. The findings indicate that thermal information plays a dominant role in UAV segmentation and that feature-level multimodal fusion combined with transformer-based architectures offers the most promising direction for future research.

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arXiv2022

Survey on Deep Fuzzy Systems in regression applications: a view on interpretability

Regression problems have been more and more embraced by deep learning (DL) techniques. The increasing number of papers recently published in this domain, including surveys and reviews, shows that deep regression has captured the attention of the community due to efficiency and good accuracy in systems with high-dimensional data. However, many DL methodologies have complex structures that are not readily transparent to human users. Accessing the interpretability of these models is an essential factor for addressing problems in sensitive areas such as cyber-security systems, medical, financial surveillance, and industrial processes. Fuzzy logic systems (FLS) are inherently interpretable models, well known in the literature, capable of using nonlinear representations for complex systems through linguistic terms with membership degrees mimicking human thought. Within an atmosphere of explainable artificial intelligence, it is necessary to consider a trade-off between accuracy and interpretability for developing intelligent models. This paper aims to investigate the state-of-the-art on existing methodologies that combine DL and FLS, namely deep fuzzy systems, to address regression problems, configuring a topic that is currently not sufficiently explored in the literature and thus deserves a comprehensive survey.

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