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In this article, we propose a hierarchical Modality-Camera Balance Label Refinement (MCBL) framework to balance the contributions of each camera-modality. Meanwhile, we explore the fine-grained features and refine the noise labels at each training stages. Specifically, our MCBL naturally combines Modality-Camera Balanced Label Mining (MBLM), Unreliable Pseudo-Label Re-align (UPR), and Hybrid Modality-Camera Contrastive Learning (HMCCL) into a unified framework, which balances the association information for each hierarchical domain through refining noise labels. Technically, MBLM filters cluster-level noise samples utilizing a modality-camera balance strategy, thereby ensuring that reliable samples are stored in memory for effective contrast learning. UPR refines the noise labels through the re-alignment methods at the instance level, thus improving the accuracy of labels and further enhancing the model\u2019s generalization ability. 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