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Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to separate small targets from clutter backgrounds. Extensive research is dedicated to the pixel-level supervision-guided "encoder-decoder" segmentation paradigm. Although having achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Rixiang Ni , Boyang Li , Jun Chen , Yonghao Li , Feiyu Ren , Yuji Wang , Haoyang Yuan , Wujiao He , Wei An

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

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

Current CNN-based infrared small target detection(IRSTD) methods generally overlook the heterogeneity between shallow and deep features, leading to inefficient collaboration between shallow fine grained structural information and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Taoran Yue , Xiaojin Lu , Jiaxi Cai , Yuanping Chen , Shibing Chu

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

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

As an essential vision task, infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has seen significant advancements through deep learning. However, critical limitations in current evaluation protocols impede further progress. First, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Youwei Pang , Xiaoqi Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu , Georges El Fakhri , Xiaofeng Liu , Shijian Lu

Multi-frame infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in low-altitude and maritime surveillance. The hybrid architecture combining CNNs and Transformers shows great promise for enhancing multi-frame IRSTD performance. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhihua Shen , Siyang Chen , Han Wang , Tongsu Zhang , Xiaohu Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu , Xia Yang

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

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

Space-based infrared tiny ship detection aims at separating tiny ships from the images captured by earth orbiting satellites. Due to the extremely large image coverage area (e.g., thousands square kilometers), candidate targets in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Tianhao Wu , Boyang Li , Yihang Luo , Yingqian Wang , Chao Xiao , Ting Liu , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has recently benefitted greatly from U-shaped neural models. However, largely overlooking effective global information modeling, existing techniques struggle when the target has high similarities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shuai Yuan , Hanlin Qin , Xiang Yan , Naveed AKhtar , Ajmal Mian

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets are easily obscured by complex and dynamic backgrounds. Conventional multi-frame approaches typically learn motion implicitly through deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nian Liu , Jin Gao , Shubo Lin , Yutong Kou , Sikui Zhang , Fudong Ge , Zhiqiang Pu , Liang Li , Gang Wang , Yizheng Wang , Weiming Hu

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is critical for defense and surveillance but remains challenging due to (1) target loss from minimal features, (2) false alarms in cluttered environments, (3) missed detections from low saliency, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Abdulkarim Atrash , Omar Moured , Yufan Chen , Jiaming Zhang , Seyda Ertekin , Omur Ugur

We propose a target driven adaptive (TDA) loss to enhance the performance of infrared small target detection (IRSTD). Prior works have used loss functions, such as binary cross-entropy loss and IoU loss, to train segmentation models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuho Shoji , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

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

Moving infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a critical role in practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based search system. Moving IRSTD still remains highly challenging due to weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Houzhang Fang , Shukai Guo , Qiuhuan Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

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

Limited by equipment limitations and the lack of target intrinsic features, existing infrared small target detection methods have difficulty meeting actual comprehensive performance requirements. Therefore, we propose an innovative…

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

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is critical for applications like remote sensing and surveillance, which aims to identify small, low-contrast targets against complex backgrounds. However, existing methods often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuying Li , Qiang Ma , San Zhang , Chuang Yang