The Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem generates vast amounts of multimodal data from heterogeneous sources such as sensors, cameras, and microphones.
As edge intelligence advances, IoT devices are now capable of complex computational tasks, leading to the need for distributed learning strategies to handle multimodal data effectively.
Multimodal Online Federated Learning (MMO-FL) is introduced as a framework for dynamic and decentralized multimodal learning in IoT environments, addressing challenges like real-time data collection and limited local storage on edge devices.
A Prototypical Modality Mitigation (PMM) algorithm is proposed within MMO-FL to compensate for missing modalities by leveraging prototype learning, showing superior performance in experimental results.