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Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is one of the key techniques in image processing. Although deep unfolding networks (DUNs) have demonstrated promising performance in ISTD due to their model interpretability and data adaptability,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jingjing Liu , Yinchao Han , Xianchao Xiu , Jianhua Zhang , Wanquan Liu

Infrared small target detection plays a vital role in remote sensing, industrial monitoring, and various civilian applications. Despite recent progress powered by deep learning, many end-to-end convolutional models tend to pursue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zihao Xiong , Fei Zhou , Fengyi Wu , Shuai Yuan , Maixia Fu , Zhenming Peng , Jian Yang , Yimian Dai

Infrared small-target detection (ISTD) is an important computer vision task. ISTD aims at separating small targets from complex background clutter. The infrared radiation decays over distances, making the targets highly dim and prone to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jingchao Peng , Haitao Zhao , Kaijie Zhao , Zhongze Wang , Lujian Yao

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

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) decomposes an observation matrix into low-rank background and sparse object components. This capability has enabled its application in tasks ranging from image restoration to segmentation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Fengyi Wu , Yimian Dai , Tianfang Zhang , Yixuan Ding , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Zhenming Peng

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging due to complex backgrounds, low signal-to-clutter ratios, and varying target sizes and shapes. Effective detection relies on capturing local contextual information at the appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Guoyi Zhang , Guangsheng Xu , Han Wang , Siyang Chen , Yunxiao Shan , Xiaohu Zhang

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

Deep unfolded neural networks are designed by unrolling the iterations of optimization algorithms. They can be shown to achieve faster convergence and higher accuracy than their optimization counterparts. This paper proposes a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Huynh Van Luong , Boris Joukovsky , Yonina C. Eldar , Nikos Deligiannis

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

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 plays an important role in the infrared search and tracking applications. In recent years, deep learning techniques were introduced to this task and achieved noteworthy effects. Following general object…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Fang Chen , Chenqiang Gao , Fangcen Liu , Yue Zhao , Yuxi Zhou , Deyu Meng , Wangmeng Zuo

Small targets are often submerged in cluttered backgrounds of infrared images. Conventional detectors tend to generate false alarms, while CNN-based detectors lose small targets in deep layers. To this end, we propose iSmallNet, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Zhiheng Hu , Yongzhen Wang , Peng Li , Jie Qin , Haoran Xie , Mingqiang Wei

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

\textcolor{blue}{This is the pre-acceptance version, to read the final version please go to \href{https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11156113}{IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on IEEE Xplore}.} Infrared small target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Guoyi Zhang , Guangsheng Xu , Siyang Chen , Han Wang , Xiaohu Zhang

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

Variational methods are widely applied to ill-posed inverse problems for they have the ability to embed prior knowledge about the solution. However, the level of performance of these methods significantly depends on a set of parameters,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Carla Bertocchi , Emilie Chouzenoux , Marie-Caroline Corbineau , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Marco Prato

Low-rank and sparse decomposition based methods find their use in many applications involving background modeling such as clutter suppression and object tracking. While Robust Principal Component Analysis (RPCA) has achieved great success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Shoaib Imran , Muhammad Tahir , Zubair Khalid , Momin Uppal

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) plays a critical role in a wide range of civilian and military applications. Existing methods suffer from deficiencies in the localization of dim targets and the perception of contour information under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jiakun Deng , Kexuan Li , Xingye Cui , Jiaxuan Li , Chang Long , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

Infrared target detection (IRSTD) tasks have critical applications in areas like wilderness rescue and maritime search. However, detecting infrared targets is challenging due to their low contrast and tendency to blend into complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zikai Liao , Zhaozheng Yin

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
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