@article{alignfreenetiscrossmodalprealignmentnece,
  title = {AlignFreeNet: Is Cross-Modal Pre-Alignment Necessary? An End-to-End Alignment-Free Lightweight Network for Visible-Infrared Object Detection},
  author = {Dingkun Zhu and Haote Zhang and Lipeng Gu and Wuzhou Quan and Fu Lee Wang and Honghui Fan and Jiali Tang and Haoran Xie and Xiaoping Zhang and Mingqiang Wei},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2507.20146},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20146},
}