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The data-driven method for infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has achieved promising results. However, due to the small scale of infrared small target datasets and the limited number of pixels occupied by the targets themselves, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Peichao Wang , Jiabao Wang , Yao Chen , Rui Zhang , Yang Li , Zhuang Miao

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

Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) aims to segment small targets from infrared clutter background. Existing methods mainly focus on discriminative approaches, i.e., a pixel-level front-background binary segmentation. Since infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Yifei Xu , Runshi Wang

Infrared small target detection based on deep learning offers unique advantages in separating small targets from complex and dynamic backgrounds. However, the features of infrared small targets gradually weaken as the depth of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Chun Bao , Jie Cao , Yaqian Ning , Tianhua Zhao , Zhijun Li , Zechen Wang , Li Zhang , Qun Hao

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

Infrared small target detection is a challenging task due to its unique characteristics (e.g., small, dim, shapeless and changeable). Recently published CNN-based methods have achieved promising performance with heavy feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yongxian Liu , Boyang Li , Ting Liu , Zaiping Lin , Wei An

The accurate target-background separation in infrared small target detection (IRSTD) highly depends on the discriminability of extracted representations. However, most existing methods are confined to domain-consistent settings, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yimin Fu , Songbo Wang , Feiyan Wu , Jialin Lyu , Zhunga Liu , Michael K. Ng

Infrared small target detection(IRSTD) is widely recognized as a challenging task due to the inherent limitations of infrared imaging, including low signal-to-noise ratios, lack of texture details, and complex background interference. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuxin Jing , Yuchen Zheng , Jufeng Zhao , Guangmang Cui , Tianpei Zhang

Aiming at the detection difficulties of infrared images such as complex background, low signal-to-noise ratio, small target size and weak brightness, a lightweight infrared small target detection algorithm ISTD-YOLO based on improved YOLOv7…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shang Zhang , Yujie Cui , Ruoyan Xiong , Huanbin Zhang

Hyperspectral image (HSI) denoising is a crucial preprocessing step for subsequent tasks. The clean HSI usually reside in a low-dimensional subspace, which can be captured by low-rank and sparse representation, known as the physical prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jin Ye , Fengchao Xiong , Jun Zhou , Yuntao Qian

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

In the current salient object detection network, the most popular method is using U-shape structure. However, the massive number of parameters leads to more consumption of computing and storage resources which are not feasible to deploy on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Bin Zhang , Yang Wu , Xiaojing Zhang , Ming Ma

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

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

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

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has attracted widespread attention and been applied in various fields. Due to the small size of infrared targets and the noise interference from complex backgrounds, the performance of ISTD using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ao Wang , Wei Li , Xin Wu , Zhanchao Huang , Ran Tao

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is critical in both civilian and military applications. However, the limited texture and structural information in infrared images makes accurate detection particularly challenging. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Xingye Cui , Junhai Luo , Jiakun Deng , Kexuan Li , Xiangyu Qiu , Zhenming Peng

Recent salient object detection (SOD) models predominantly rely on heavyweight backbones, incurring substantial computational cost and hindering their practical application in various real-world settings, particularly on edge devices. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yu-Huan Wu , Wei Liu , Zi-Xuan Zhu , Zizhou Wang , Yong Liu , Liangli Zhen

Recently, relying on convolutional neural networks (CNNs), many methods for salient object detection in optical remote sensing images (ORSI-SOD) are proposed. However, most methods ignore the huge parameters and computational cost brought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Gongyang Li , Zhi Liu , Xinpeng Zhang , Weisi Lin

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