{"id":38972,"date":"2026-08-21T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/publication\/modality-aware-out-of-distribution-detection-for-multi-modal-action-recognition\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T11:17:25","slug":"modality-aware-out-of-distribution-detection-for-multi-modal-action-recognition","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/publication\/modality-aware-out-of-distribution-detection-for-multi-modal-action-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Modality-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection for Multi-Modal Action Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The incorporation of additional modalities into action recognition models increases their performance across a wide range of settings. However, how this additional information can contribute to making the models more robust remains underexplored, particularly for the case of multi-modal out-of-distribution ({OOD}) detection. While methods exist that regularize the multi-modal training process with {OOD} detection in mind, they still apply off-the-shelf {OOD} detectors designed for the uni-modal case during inference, discarding important information. Based on an interesting relationship we find between the multi-modal and uni-modal predictions, we propose to use this signal to build a post-hoc detector explicitly designed for the multi-modal scenario. We combine this new source of information with a feature-space score, which detects off-manifold samples in the multi-modal space, and normalize them by the multi-modal logits. In doing so, the proposed hybrid detector is compatible with existing training-time approaches and consistently improves performance. Experiments on a wide range of established datasets from the {MultiOOD} benchmark show that, on average, our approach outperforms the state of the art. Our results show the importance of explicitly considering the different modalities at inference time for multi-modal {OOD} detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incorporation of additional modalities into action recognition models increases their performance across a wide range of settings. However, how this additional information can contribute to making the models more robust remains underexplored, particularly for the case of multi-modal out-of-distribution ({OOD}) detection. While methods exist that regularize the multi-modal training process with {OOD} detection in mind, they still apply off-the-shelf {OOD} detectors designed for the uni-modal case during inference, discarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication-type":[32],"class_list":["post-38972","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","publication-type-inproceedings"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/38972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/38972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lamarr-institute.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-type?post=38972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}