@article{thermaldetlanguageguidedcrossmodaldistil, title = {Thermal-Det: Language-Guided Cross-Modal Distillation for Open-Vocabulary Thermal Object Detection}, author = {Yasiru Ranasinghe and Elim Schenck and Florence Yellin and Shuowen Hu and Christopher Funk and Vishal M. Patel}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.10130}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10130}, }