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While recent Transformer-based approaches have shown impressive performances on event-based object detection tasks, their high computational costs still diminish the low power consumption advantage of event cameras. Image-based works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yansong Peng , Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun , Feng Wu

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is widely used in civilian and military applications. However, ISTD encounters several challenges, including the tendency for small and dim targets to be obscured by complex backgrounds. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Chen Hu , Yian Huang , Kexuan Li , Luping Zhang , Chang Long , Yiming Zhu , Tian Pu , Zhenming Peng

Point supervision has become a scalable solution to address dense annotation for infrared small target detection, but its performance is limited by two coupled bottlenecks: unstable pseudo-label evolution in cluttered, low-contrast infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhu Liu , Yuanhang Yao , Ping Qian , Zihang Chen , Risheng Liu

Multi-frame infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in low-altitude and maritime surveillance. The hybrid architecture combining CNNs and Transformers shows great promise for enhancing multi-frame IRSTD performance. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhihua Shen , Siyang Chen , Han Wang , Tongsu Zhang , Xiaohu Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu , Xia Yang

Recent advancements in deep learning have greatly advanced the field of infrared small object detection (IRSTD). Despite their remarkable success, a notable gap persists between these IRSTD methods and generic segmentation approaches in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mingjin Zhang , Chi Zhang , Qiming Zhang , Yunsong Li , Xinbo Gao , Jing Zhang

In practical application scenarios, moving infrared small target detection (MIRSTD) remains highly challenging due to the target's small size, weak intensity, and complex motion pattern. Existing methods typically only model low-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhaoyuan Qi , Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Jie Tang , Yun Li , Xiaodong Peng

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is critical for applications like remote sensing and surveillance, which aims to identify small, low-contrast targets against complex backgrounds. However, existing methods often struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shuying Li , Qiang Ma , San Zhang , Chuang Yang

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target tracking based on thermal infrared imaging has been one of the most important sensing technologies in anti-UAV applications. However, the infrared UAV targets often exhibit weak features and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Houzhang Fang , Chenxing Wu , Kun Bai , Tianqi Chen , Xiaolin Wang , Xiyang Liu , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Achieving a universally high accuracy in object detection is quite challenging, and the mainstream focus in the industry currently lies on detecting specific classes of objects. However, deploying one or multiple object detection networks…

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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

Infrared and visible image fusion is a powerful technique that combines complementary information from different modalities for downstream semantic perception tasks. Existing learning-based methods show remarkable performance, but are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zhu Liu , Jinyuan Liu , Benzhuang Zhang , Long Ma , Xin Fan , Risheng Liu

Fine-tuning the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for infrared small target detection poses significant challenges due to severe domain shifts. Existing adaptation methods often incorporate handcrafted priors to bridge this gap, yet such designs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Guoyi Zhang , Siyang Chen , Guangsheng Xu , Han Wang , Donghe Wang , Xiaohu Zhang

The Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, which adjusts or introduces fewer trainable parameters to calibrate pre-trained models on downstream tasks, has become a recent research interest. However, existing PEFT methods within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Jiacheng Ruan , Jingsheng Gao , Mingye Xie , Suncheng Xiang , Zefang Yu , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

\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

Test-time defenses are used to improve the robustness of deep neural networks to adversarial examples during inference. However, existing methods either require an additional trained classifier to detect and correct the adversarial samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Anurag Singh , Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Krikamol Muandet , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

Infrared small target detection presents significant challenges due to the limited intrinsic features of the target and the overwhelming presence of visually similar background distractors. We contend that background semantics are critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mengxuan Xiao , Yinfei Zhu , Yiming Zhu , Boyang Li , Feifei Zhang , Huan Wang , Meng Cai , Yimian Dai

Moving infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a critical role in practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based search system. Moving IRSTD still remains highly challenging due to weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Houzhang Fang , Shukai Guo , Qiuhuan Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

Infrared small target detection faces the inherent challenge of precisely localizing dim targets amidst complex background clutter. Traditional approaches struggle to balance detection precision and false alarm rates. To break this dilemma,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yimian Dai , Peiwen Pan , Yulei Qian , Yuxuan Li , Xiang Li , Jian Yang , Huan Wang

Advances in lightweight neural networks have revolutionized computer vision in a broad range of IoT applications, encompassing remote monitoring and process automation. However, the detection of small objects, which is crucial for many of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Liam Boyle , Julian Moosmann , Nicolas Baumann , Seonyeong Heo , Michele Magno