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Single-frame infrared small target detection is considered to be a challenging task, due to the extreme imbalance between target and background, bounding box regression is extremely sensitive to infrared small target, and target information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Bo Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Jian Zhang , Jun Luo , Mingliang Zhou , Yangjun Pi

Optimization-based approaches dominate infrared small target detection as they leverage infrared imagery's intrinsic low-rankness and sparsity. While effective for single-frame images, they struggle with dynamic changes in multi-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fengyi Wu , Simin Liu , Haoan Wang , Bingjie Tao , Junhai Luo , Zhenming Peng

This paper describes computationally efficient approaches and associated theoretical performance guarantees for the detection of known targets and anomalies from few projection measurements of the underlying signals. The proposed approaches…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-03 Kalyani Krishnamurthy , Rebecca Willett , Maxim Raginsky

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) faces significant challenges due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), small target size, and complex cluttered backgrounds. Although recent DETR-based detectors benefit from global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yuteng Liu , Duanni Meng , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

Small target detection is inherently challenging due to the minimal size, lack of distinctive features, and the presence of complex backgrounds. Heavy noise further complicates the task by both obscuring and imitating the target appearance.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-15 Nicholas Bampton , Tian J. Ma , Minh N. Do

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has a wide range of applications in early warning, rescue, and guidance. However, CNN based deep learning methods are not effective at segmenting infrared small target (IRST) that it lack of clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Peiwen Pan , Huan Wang , Chenyi Wang , Chang Nie

Infrared small target detection is crucial for remote sensing applications like disaster warning and maritime surveillance. However, due to the lack of distinctive texture and morphological features, infrared small targets are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Zuo , Songwei Pei , Qian Li

Single-frame InfraRed Small Target (SIRST) detection has been a challenging task due to a lack of inherent characteristics, imprecise bounding box regression, a scarcity of real-world datasets, and sensitive localization evaluation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yimian Dai , Xiang Li , Fei Zhou , Yulei Qian , Yaohong Chen , Jian Yang

Pedestrian detection has become a cornerstone for several high-level tasks, including autonomous driving, intelligent transportation, and traffic surveillance. There are several works focussed on pedestrian detection using visible images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Thangarajah Akilan , Hrishikesh Vachhani

Infrared small object detection (ISOS) aims to segment small objects only covered with several pixels from clutter background in infrared images. It's of great challenge due to: 1) small objects lack of sufficient intensity, shape and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Chenyi Wang , Huan Wang , Peiwen Pan

Small target motion detection within complex natural environments is an extremely challenging task for autonomous robots. Surprisingly, the visual systems of insects have evolved to be highly efficient in detecting mates and tracking prey,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Hongxin Wang , Jiannan Zhao , Huatian Wang , Cheng Hu , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

This paper presents a novel mid-wave infrared (MWIR) small target detection dataset (MWIRSTD) comprising 14 video sequences containing approximately 1053 images with annotated targets of three distinct classes of small objects. Captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Nikhil Kumar , Avinash Upadhyay , Shreya Sharma , Manoj Sharma , Pravendra Singh

While extensive research exists on physical adversarial attacks within the visible spectrum, studies on such techniques in the infrared spectrum are limited. Infrared object detectors are vital in modern technological applications but are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kalibinuer Tiliwalidi , Chengyin Hu , Weiwen Shi

Due to the complicated background and noise of infrared images, infrared small target detection is one of the most difficult problems in the field of computer vision. In most existing studies, semantic segmentation methods are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yuhang Chen , Liyuan Li , Xin Liu , Xiaofeng Su , Fansheng Chen

Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) faces significant challenges due to low signal-to-noise ratios, complex backgrounds, and the absence of discernible target features. While deep learning-based encoder-decoder frameworks have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuelin Qian , Jiaming Lu , Zixuan Wang , Wenxuan Wang , Zhongling Huang , Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han

Automotive radar provides reliable environmental perception in all-weather conditions with affordable cost, but it hardly supplies semantic and geometry information due to the sparsity of radar detection points. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jianan Liu , Weiyi Xiong , Liping Bai , Yuxuan Xia , Tao Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Bing Zhu

Infrared small target detection is a key technique in infrared search and tracking (IRST) systems. Although deep learning has been widely used in the vision tasks of visible light images recently, it is rarely used in infrared small target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mingxin Zhao , Li Cheng , Xu Yang , Peng Feng , Liyuan Liu , Nanjian Wu

Recently, infrared small target detection with single-point supervision has attracted extensive attention. However, the detection accuracy of existing methods has difficulty meeting actual needs. Therefore, we propose an innovative refined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu

Recently anomaly detection (AD) has become an important application for target detection in hyperspectral remotely sensed images. In many applications, in addition to high accuracy of detection we need a fast and reliable algorithm as well.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-11 Mohsen Zare Baghbidi , Kamal Jamshidi , Ahmad Reza Naghsh Nilchi , Saeid Homayouni

In this communication, we deal with the question of automatic target detection, recognition and tracking (ATD/R/T) algorithms performance assessment. We propose a complete methodology of evaluation which approaches objective image datasets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Jérôme Gilles , Stéphane Landeau , Tristan Dagobert , Philippe Chevalier , Eric Stiée , Damien Diaz , Jean-Luc Maillart