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Discriminating targets moving against a cluttered background is a huge challenge, let alone detecting a target as small as one or a few pixels and tracking it in flight. In the fly's visual system, a class of specific neurons, called small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Hongxin Wang , Jigen Peng , Shigang Yue

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

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in numerous military and civilian applications. However, existing methods often face the gradual degradation of target edge pixels as the number of network layers increases, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shuying Li , Qiang Ma , San Zhang , Wuwei Wang , Chuang Yang

Infrared small target detection is crucial for the efficacy of infrared search and tracking systems. Current tensor decomposition methods emphasize representing small targets with sparsity but struggle to separate targets from complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fei Zhou , Maixia Fu , Yulei Qian , Jian Yang , Yimian Dai

Infrared small target (IRST) detection is challenging in simultaneously achieving precise, robust, and efficient performance due to extremely dim targets and strong interference. Current learning-based methods attempt to leverage ``more"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ruojing Li , Wei An , Yingqian Wang , Xinyi Ying , Yimian Dai , Longguang Wang , Miao Li , Yulan Guo , Li Liu

Many state-of-the-art methods have been proposed for infrared small target detection. They work well on the images with homogeneous backgrounds and high-contrast targets. However, when facing highly heterogeneous backgrounds, they would not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu

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

In the multimedia domain, Infrared Small Target Detection (ISTD) plays a important role in drone-based multi-modality sensing. To address the dual challenges of cross-domain shift and heteroscedastic noise perturbations in ISTD, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yuehui Li , Yahao Lu , Haoyuan Wu , Sen Zhang , Liang Lin , Yukai Shi

Recently, infrared small target detection has attracted extensive attention. However, due to the small size and the lack of intrinsic features of infrared small targets, the existing methods generally have the problem of inaccurate edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Chuang Yu , Zelin Shi , Yunpeng Liu , Yingdi Zhang

Many targets are often very small in infrared images due to the long-distance imaging meachnism. UNet and its variants, as popular detection backbone networks, downsample the local features early and cause the irreversible loss of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wuzhou Quan , Wei Zhao , Weiming Wang , Haoran Xie , Fu Lee Wang , Mingqiang Wei

Detecting small targets in drone imagery is challenging due to low resolution, complex backgrounds, and dynamic scenes. We propose EDNet, a novel edge-target detection framework built on an enhanced YOLOv10 architecture, optimized for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zhifan Song , Yuan Zhang , Abd Al Rahman M. Abu Ebayyeh

Detecting small to tiny targets in infrared images is a challenging task in computer vision, especially when it comes to differentiating these targets from noisy or textured backgrounds. Traditional object detection methods such as YOLO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alina Ciocarlan , Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle , Sidonie Lefebvre , Arnaud Woiselle , Clara Barbanson

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) plays a vital role in numerous practical applications. In pursuit of determining the performance boundaries, researchers employ large and expensive manual-labeling data for representation learning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Junyao Li , Yahao Lu , Xingyuan Guo , Xiaoyu Xian , Tiantian Wang , Yukai Shi

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

Monitoring small objects against cluttered moving backgrounds is a huge challenge to future robotic vision systems. As a source of inspiration, insects are quite apt at searching for mates and tracking prey -- which always appear as small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Hongxin Wang , Jigen Peng , Xuqiang Zheng , Shigang Yue

Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) system aims to identify small targets in complex backgrounds. Due to the convolution operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), applying traditional CNNs to IRSTD presents challenges, since…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Yirui Chen , Yiming Zhu , Yuxin Jing , Tianpei Zhang , Jufeng Zhao

In this work we introduce impostor networks, an architecture that allows to perform fine-grained recognition with high accuracy and using a light-weight convolutional network, making it particularly suitable for fine-grained applications on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Vadim Lebedev , Artem Babenko , Victor Lempitsky

Recently, single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection technology has attracted widespread attention. Different from most existing deep learning-based methods that focus on improving network architectures, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu , Yimian Dai

In this paper, we address the design of lightweight deep learning-based edge detection. The deep learning technology offers a significant improvement on the edge detection accuracy. However, typical neural network designs have very high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Jan Kristanto Wibisono , Hsueh-Ming Hang

In complex environments, detecting tiny infrared targets has always been challenging because of the low contrast and high noise levels inherent in infrared images. These factors often lead to the loss of crucial details during feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaojin Lu , Taoran yue , Jiaxi cai , Yuanping Chen , Cuihong Lv , Shibing Chu