@article{tobemultimodalornottobequeryadaptiveaudi, title = {To Be Multimodal or Not to Be: Query-Adaptive Audio-Visual Person Retrieval via Active Modality Detection}, author = {Erfan Loweimi and Mengjie Qian and Kate Knill and Guanfeng Wu and Chi-Ho Chan and Abbas Haider and Muhammad Awan and Josef Kittler and Hui Wang and Mark Gales}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2606.05931}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05931}, }