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Infrared small target detection (ISTD) remains a long-standing challenge due to weak signal contrast, limited spatial extent, and cluttered backgrounds. Despite performance improvements from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hongyang Xie , Hongyang He , Victor Sanchez

Small object detection is challenging because small objects do not contain detailed information and may even disappear in the deep network. Usually, feeding high-resolution images into a network can alleviate this issue. However, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ziming Liu , Guangyu Gao , Lin Sun , Zhiyuan Fang

Infrared search and tracking (IRST) system has been widely concerned and applied in the area of national defence. Small target detection under complex background is a very challenging task in the development of system algorithm. Low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Fan Wang

Infrared small target detection and segmentation (IRSTDS) is a critical yet challenging task in defense and civilian applications, owing to the dim, shapeless appearance of targets and severe background clutter. Recent CNN-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Maoxun Yuan , Duanni Meng , Ziteng Xi , Tianyi Zhao , Shiji Zhao , Yimian Dai , Xingxing Wei

Infrared small target detection is a technique for finding small targets from infrared clutter background. Due to the dearth of high-level semantic information, small infrared target features are weakened in the deep layers of the CNN,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Runshi Wang , Yifei Xu

Infrared small object detection is an important computer vision task involving the recognition and localization of tiny objects in infrared images, which usually contain only a few pixels. However, it encounters difficulties due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Shibiao Xu , ShuChen Zheng , Wenhao Xu , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Jiguang Zhang , Xiaoqiang Teng , Ao Li , Li Guo

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

IRSTD (InfraRed Small Target Detection) detects small targets in infrared blurry backgrounds and is essential for various applications. The detection task is challenging due to the small size of the targets and their sparse distribution in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Pranav Singh , Pravendra Singh

To mitigate the issue of minimal intrinsic features for pure data-driven methods, in this paper, we propose a novel model-driven deep network for infrared small target detection, which combines discriminative networks and conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

In 3D medical image segmentation, small targets segmentation is crucial for diagnosis but still faces challenges. In this paper, we propose the Axis Projection Attention UNet, named APAUNet, for 3D medical image segmentation, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yuncheng Jiang , Zixun Zhang , Shixi Qin , Yao Guo , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) remains challenging due to the scarcity of useful target cues and the presence of severe background clutter. Most current methods rely on conventional feature learning and local interaction modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qianwen Ma , Yang Xu , Shangwei Deng , Xiaobo Li , Haofeng Hu

The infrared small-dim target detection is one of the key techniques in the infrared search and tracking system. Since the local regions similar to infrared small-dim targets spread over the whole background, exploring the interaction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Fangcen Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Fang Chen , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo , Xinbo Gao

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

Resolving closely-spaced small targets in dense clusters presents a significant challenge in infrared imaging, as the overlapping signals hinder precise determination of their quantity, sub-pixel positions, and radiation intensities. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Shengdong Han , Shangdong Yang , Xin Zhang , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Yimian Dai

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays an important role in a wide range of applications including land resource management, biosphere monitoring and urban planning. Although the accuracy of semantic segmentation in remote…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Rui Li , Shunyi Zheng , Chenxi Duan , Ce Zhang , Jianlin Su , P. M. Atkinson

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

The accurate segmentation of multiple types of lesions from adjacent tissues in medical images is significant in clinical practice. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based on the coarse-to-fine strategy have been widely used in this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Zhang , Fan Song , Chenbin Ma , Guangda Fan , Yangyang Sun , Youdan Feng , Guanglei Zhang

Computer vision researchers have extensively worked on fundamental infrared visual recognition for the past few decades. Among various approaches, deep learning has emerged as the most promising candidate. However, Infrared Small Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Imad Ali Shah , Fahad Mumtaz Malik , Muhammad Waqas Ashraf

Accurately and efficiently extracting building footprints from a wide range of remote sensed imagery remains a challenge due to their complex structure, variety of scales and diverse appearances. Existing convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Qing Zhu , Cheng Liao , Han Hu , Xiaoming Mei , Haifeng Li

Object detection is a challenging task in remote sensing because objects only occupy a few pixels in the images, and the models are required to simultaneously learn object locations and detection. Even though the established approaches well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Jocelyn Chanussot , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Huiyu Zhou , Jie Yang