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RF emissions detection, classification, and spectro-temporal localization are crucial not only for tasks relating to understanding, managing, and protecting the RF spectrum, but also for safety and security applications such as detecting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hai N. Nguyen , Marinos Vomvas , Triet Vo-Huu , Guevara Noubir

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is thus critical in both civilian and military applications. This study addresses the challenge of precisely IRSTD in complex backgrounds. Recent methods focus fundamental reliance on conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Yuxin Jing , Jufeng Zhao , Tianpei Zhang , Yiming Zhu

Compared with an extensive list of automotive radar datasets that support autonomous driving, indoor radar datasets are scarce at a smaller scale in the format of low-resolution radar point clouds and usually under an open-space single-room…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 M. Mahbubur Rahman , Ryoma Yataka , Sorachi Kato , Pu Perry Wang , Peizhao Li , Adriano Cardace , Petros Boufounos

In this paper, we briefly summarize the first competition on resource-limited infrared small target detection (namely, LimitIRSTD). This competition has two tracks, including weakly-supervised infrared small target detection (Track 1) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Boyang Li , Xinyi Ying , Ruojing Li , Yongxian Liu , Yangsi Shi , Miao Li

In recent years, the detection of infrared small targets using deep learning methods has garnered substantial attention due to notable advancements. To improve the detection capability of small targets, these methods commonly maintain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Qianchen Mao , Qiang Li , Bingshu Wang , Yongjun Zhang , Tao Dai , C. L. Philip Chen

We present WISE All-Sky mid-infrared (IR) survey detections of 55% (17/31) of the known QSOs at z>6 from a range of surveys: the SDSS, the CFHT-LS, FIRST, Spitzer and UKIDSS. The WISE catalog thus provides a substantial increase in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrew Blain , Robert Assef , Daniel Stern , Chao-Wei Tsai , Peter Eisenhardt , Carrie Bridge , Dominic Benford , Tom Jarrett , Roc Cutri , Sara Petty , Jingwen Wu , Ned Wright

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

In this survey, we compile a list of publicly available infrared image and video sets for artificial intelligence and computer vision researchers. We mainly focus on IR image and video sets which are collected and labelled for computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Kevser Irem Danaci , Erdem Akagunduz

The absence of publicly available, large-scale, high-quality datasets for Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition (SAR ATR) has significantly hindered the application of rapidly advancing deep learning techniques, which hold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yongxiang Liu , Weijie Li , Li Liu , Jie Zhou , Bowen Peng , Yafei Song , Xuying Xiong , Wei Yang , Tianpeng Liu , Zhen Liu , Xiang Li

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to identify and distinguish small targets from complex backgrounds. Leveraging the powerful multi-scale feature fusion capability of the U-Net architecture, IRSTD has achieved significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yingmei Zhang , Wangtao Bao , Yong Yang , Weiguo Wan , Qin Xiao , Xueting Zou

\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

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is crucial for surveillance and early-warning, with deployments spanning both single-frame analysis and video-mode tracking. A practical solution should leverage vision foundation models (VFMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Qian Xu , Xi Li , Fei Gao , Jie Guo , Haojuan Yuan , Shuaipeng Fan , Mingjin Zhang

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

Infrared search and tracking (IRST) system has been widely concerned and applied in the area of national defence. Small target detection under complex background is a very challenging task in the development of system algorithm. Low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Fan Wang

This paper introduces the Maritime Ship Navigation Behavior Dataset (MID), designed to address challenges in ship detection within complex maritime environments using Oriented Bounding Boxes (OBB). MID contains 5,673 images with 135,884…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yugang Chang , Hongyu Chen , Fei Wang , Chengcheng Chen , Weiming Zeng

Recent object detection models for infrared (IR) imagery are based upon deep neural networks (DNNs) and require large amounts of labeled training imagery. However, publicly available datasets that can be used for such training are limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Evelyn A. Stump , Francesco Luzi , Leslie M. Collins , Jordan M. Malof

Quantifying performance of methods for tracking and mapping tissue in endoscopic environments is essential for enabling image guidance and automation of medical interventions and surgery. Datasets developed so far either use rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Adam Schmidt , Omid Mohareri , Simon DiMaio , Septimiu E. Salcudean

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

Social distancing and temperature screening have been widely employed to counteract the COVID-19 pandemic, sparking great interest from academia, industry and public administrations worldwide. While most solutions have dealt with these…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Marco Canil , Jacopo Pegoraro , Michele Rossi

Current autonomous driving algorithms heavily rely on the visible spectrum, which is prone to performance degradation in adverse conditions like fog, rain, snow, glare, and high contrast. Although other spectral bands like near-infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Youngwan Jin , Michal Kovac , Yagiz Nalcakan , Hyeongjin Ju , Hanbin Song , Sanghyeop Yeo , Shiho Kim