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In low-altitude surveillance and early warning systems, detecting weak moving targets remains a significant challenge due to low signal energy, small spatial extent, and complex background clutter. Existing methods struggle with extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Weihua Gao , Chunxu Ren , Wenlong Niu , Xiaodong Peng

Detecting small moving targets accurately in infrared (IR) image sequences is a significant challenge. To address this problem, we propose a novel method called spatial-temporal local feature difference (STLFD) with adaptive background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yongkang Zhao , Chuang Zhu , Yuan Li , Shuaishuai Wang , Zihan Lan , Yuanyuan Qiao

Infrared small target detection plays a crucial role in military reconnaissance and air defense systems. However,existing low-rank sparse based methods still face high computational complexity when dealing with low-contrast small targets…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ke-Xin Li

Multi-Object Tracking in thermal images is essential for surveillance systems, particularly in challenging environments where RGB cameras struggle due to low visibility or poor lighting conditions. Thermal sensors enhance recognition tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran , Long Hoang Pham , Chi Dai Tran , Quoc Pham-Nam Ho , Huy-Hung Nguyen , Jae Wook Jeon

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

While there has been significant progress in object detection using conventional image processing and machine learning algorithms, exploring small and dim target detection in the IR domain is a relatively new area of study. The majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Nikhil Kumar , Pravendra Singh

Recently, infrared small target detection with single-point supervision has attracted extensive attention. However, the detection accuracy of existing methods has difficulty meeting actual needs. Therefore, we propose an innovative refined…

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

The technique of detecting multiple dim and small targets with low signal-to-clutter ratios (SCR) is very important for infrared search and tracking systems. In this paper, we establish a detection method derived from maximal entropy random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Chaoqun Xia , Xiaorun Li , Liaoying Zhao , Shuhan Chen

In this work, we consider the detection of manoeuvring small objects with radars. Such objects induce low signal to noise ratio (SNR) reflections in the received signal. We consider both co-located and separated transmitter/receiver pairs,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kimin Kim , Murat Uney , Bernard Mulgrew

Head detection and tracking are essential for downstream tasks, but current methods often require large computational budgets, which increase latencies and ties up resources (e.g., processors, memory, and bandwidth). To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jisu Kim , Alex Mattingly , Eung-Joo Lee , Benjamin S. Riggan

High-contrast imaging surveys for exoplanet detection have shown giant planets at large separations to be rare. It is important to push towards detections at smaller separations, the part of the parameter space containing most planets. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 M. Samland , J. Bouwman , D. W. Hogg , W. Brandner , T. Henning , M. Janson

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

Aiming to address the fast multi-object tracking for dense small object in the cluster background, we review track orientated multi-hypothesis tracking(TOMHT) with consideration of batch optimization. Employing autocorrelation based motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Longtao Chen , Jing Lou , Wei Zhu , Qingyuan Xia , Mingwu Ren

Quantitative analysis of the dynamics of tiny cellular and sub-cellular structures, known as particles, in time-lapse cell microscopy sequences requires the development of a reliable multi-target tracking method capable of tracking numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Stephen Gould , Ba Tuong Vo , Ba-Ngu Vo , Katarina Mele , Richard Hartley

Infrared object tracking plays a crucial role in Anti-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Anti-UAV) applications. Existing trackers often depend on cropped template regions and have limited motion modeling capabilities, which pose challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Chenxu Peng , Chenxu Wang , Minrui Zou , Danyang Li , Zhengpeng Yang , Yimian Dai , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li

A critical issue in pedestrian detection is to detect small-scale objects that will introduce feeble contrast and motion blur in images and videos, which in our opinion should partially resort to deep-rooted annotation bias. Motivated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-05 Tao Song , Leiyu Sun , Di Xie , Haiming Sun , Shiliang Pu

Event-based vision sensors, such as the Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS), are ideally suited for real-time motion analysis. The unique properties encompassed in the readings of such sensors provide high temporal resolution, superior sensitivity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Anton Mitrokhin , Cornelia Fermuller , Chethan Parameshwara , Yiannis Aloimonos

We develop new efficient online algorithms for detecting transient sparse signals in TEM video sequences, by adopting the recently developed framework for sequential detection jointly with online convex optimization [1]. We cast the problem…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-01 Y. Cao , S. Zhu , Y. Xie , J. Key , J. Kacher , R. R. Unocic , C. M. Rouleau

Detecting small targets at range is difficult because there is not enough spatial information present in an image sub-region containing the target to use correlation-based methods to differentiate it from dynamic confusers present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Tegan Emerson , Sarah Tymochko , George Stantchev , Jason A. Edelberg , Michael Wilson , Colin C. Olson

Infrared small target detection plays an important role in the remote sensing fields. Therefore, many detection algorithms have been proposed, in which the infrared patch-tensor (IPT) model has become a mainstream tool due to its excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Guiyu Zhang , Qunbo Lv , Zui Tao , Baoyu Zhu , Zheng Tan , Yuan Ma
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