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This review synthesizes detection technologies for early-stage small gas leaks from pipelines in the industrial sector, with a focus on acoustic-based methods, optical gas imaging (OGI), and multimodal fusion approaches. It encompasses detection principles, inherent challenges, mitigation strategies, and the state of the art (SOTA). Small leaks refer to low flow leakage originating from defects with apertures at millimeter or submillimeter scales, posing significant detection difficulties. Acoustic detection leverages the acoustic wave signals generated by gas leaks for non-contact monitoring, offering advantages such as rapid response and broad coverage. However, its susceptibility to environmental noise interference often triggers false alarms. This limitation can be mitigated through time-frequency analysis, multi-sensor fusion, and deep-learning algorithms\u2014effectively enhancing leak signals, suppressing background noise, and thereby improving the system\u2019s detection robustness and accuracy. OGI utilizes infrared imaging technology to visualize leakage gas and is applicable to the detection of various polar gases. Its primary limitations include low image resolution, low contrast, and interference from complex backgrounds. Mitigation techniques involve background subtraction, optical flow estimation, fully convolutional neural networks (FCNNs), and vision transformers (ViTs), which enhance image contrast and extract multi-scale features to boost detection precision. Multimodal fusion technology integrates data from diverse sensors, such as acoustic and optical devices. Key challenges lie in achieving spatiotemporal synchronization across multiple sensors and effectively fusing heterogeneous data streams. Current methodologies primarily utilize decision-level fusion and feature-level fusion techniques. Decision-level fusion offers high flexibility and ease of implementation but lacks inter-feature interaction; it is less effective than feature-level fusion when correlations exist between heterogeneous features. Feature-level fusion amalgamates data from different modalities during the feature extraction phase, generating a unified cross-modal representation that effectively resolves inter-modal heterogeneity. 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