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Infrared small target sequences exhibit strong similarities between frames and contain rich contextual information, which motivates us to achieve sequential infrared small target segmentation (IRSTS) with minimal data. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bingbing Dan , Meihui Li , Tao Tang , Jing Zhang

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims at separating small targets from clutter backgrounds. With the advances of deep learning, CNN-based methods have yielded promising results in generic object detection due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Boyang Li , Chao Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Zaiping Lin , Miao Li , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) faces two major challenges: a lack of discernible target texture and severe background clutter, which results in the background obscuring the target. To enhance targets and suppress backgrounds, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chen Hu , Mingyu Zhou , Shuai Yuan , Hongbo Hu , Zhenming Peng , Tian Pu , Xiying Li

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of mission-critical applications, including maritime surveillance, military search and rescue, early warning systems, and precision-guided strikes, all of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yingming Zhang , Wuqi Su , Qing Xiao , Yonggang Yang

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

Few-shot detection is a major task in pattern recognition which seeks to localize objects using models trained with few labeled data. One of the mainstream few-shot methods is transfer learning which consists in pretraining a detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Jie Mei , Mingyuan Jiu , Hichem Sahbi , Xiaoheng Jiang , Mingliang Xu

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) faces the inherent challenge of precisely localizing dim targets amid complex background clutter. While progress has been made, existing methods usually follow conventional strategies to downsample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Qian Xu , Chi Zhang , Qiming Zhang , Xi Li , Haojuan Yuan , Mingjin Zhang

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) tasks are extremely challenging for two main reasons: 1) it is difficult to obtain accurate labelling information that is critical to existing methods, and 2) infrared (IR) small target information is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Jing Wu , Rixiang Ni , Feng Huang , Zhaobing Qiu , Liqiong Chen , Changhai Luo , Yunxiang Li , Youli Li

Infrared small target detection plays a crucial role in military reconnaissance and air defense systems. However,existing low-rank sparse based methods still face high computational complexity when dealing with low-contrast small targets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ke-Xin Li

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

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is highly sensitive to sensor type, observation conditions, and the intrinsic properties of the target. These factors can introduce substantial variations in the distribution of acquired infrared image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yahao Lu , Yuehui Li , Xingyuan Guo , Shuai Yuan , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

Infrared object tracking plays a crucial role in Anti-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Anti-UAV) applications. Existing trackers often depend on cropped template regions and have limited motion modeling capabilities, which pose challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Chenxu Peng , Chenxu Wang , Minrui Zou , Danyang Li , Zhengpeng Yang , Yimian Dai , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

There are many limitations applying object detection algorithm on various environments. Especially detecting small objects is still challenging because they have low resolution and limited information. We propose an object detection method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Jeong-Seon Lim , Marcella Astrid , Hyun-Jin Yoon , Seung-Ik Lee

Infrared small target detection remains challenging due to limited feature representation and severe background interference, resulting in sub-optimal performance. While recent CLIP-inspired methods attempt to leverage textual guidance for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zixuan Wang , Haoran Sun , Jiaming Lu , Wenxuan Wang , Zhongling Huang , Dingwen Zhang , Xuelin Qian , Junwei Han

Few-shot multispectral object detection (FSMOD) addresses the challenge of detecting objects across visible and thermal modalities with minimal annotated data. In this paper, we explore this complex task and introduce a framework named…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Manuel Nkegoum , Minh-Tan Pham , Élisa Fromont , Bruno Avignon , Sébastien Lefèvre

Feedback is crucial to motion perception in animals' visual systems where its spatial and temporal dynamics are often shaped by movement patterns of surrounding environments. However, such spatio-temporal feedback has not been deeply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Hongxin Wang , Zhiyan Zhong , Fang Lei , Xiaohua Jing , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

Tiny face detection aims to find faces with high degrees of variability in scale, resolution and occlusion in cluttered scenes. Due to the very little information available on tiny faces, it is not sufficient to detect them merely based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yue Xi , Jiangbin Zheng , Xiangjian He , Wenjing Jia , Hanhui Li

In this paper, we identify some of the limitations of current-day shape matching techniques. We provide examples of how contour-based shape matching techniques cannot provide a good match for certain visually similar shapes. To overcome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-20 Vittal Premachandran , Ramakrishna Kakarala

Infrared small target detection presents significant challenges due to the limited intrinsic features of the target and the overwhelming presence of visually similar background distractors. We contend that background semantics are critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mengxuan Xiao , Yinfei Zhu , Yiming Zhu , Boyang Li , Feifei Zhang , Huan Wang , Meng Cai , Yimian Dai

Small target motion detection is critical for insects to search for and track mates or prey which always appear as small dim speckles in the visual field. A class of specific neurons, called small target motion detectors (STMDs), has been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Hongxin Wang , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue