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Many state-of-the-art methods have been proposed for infrared small target detection. They work well on the images with homogeneous backgrounds and high-contrast targets. However, when facing highly heterogeneous backgrounds, they would not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu

Small-object detection is a challenging problem. In the last few years, the convolution neural networks methods have been achieved considerable progress. However, the current detectors struggle with effective features extraction for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Eric Granger , Jocelyn Chanussot , Jie Yang

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a pivotal role in a broad spectrum of mission-critical applications, including maritime surveillance, military search and rescue, early warning systems, and precision-guided strikes, all of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yingming Zhang , Wuqi Su , Qing Xiao , Yonggang Yang

Infrared small target detection and segmentation (IRSTDS) is a critical yet challenging task in defense and civilian applications, owing to the dim, shapeless appearance of targets and severe background clutter. Recent CNN-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Maoxun Yuan , Duanni Meng , Ziteng Xi , Tianyi Zhao , Shiji Zhao , Yimian Dai , Xingxing Wei

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 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

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims to recognize small targets from clutter backgrounds. Recently, convolutional neural networks have achieved significant advantages in general object detection. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Yahao Lu , Yupei Lin , Han Wu , Xiaoyu Xian , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

A main bottleneck of learning-based robotic scene understanding methods is the heavy reliance on extensive annotated training data, which often limits their generalization ability. In LiDAR panoptic segmentation, this challenge becomes even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ahmet Selim Çanakçı , Niclas Vödisch , Kürsat Petek , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Self-supervised pre-training, based on the pretext task of instance discrimination, has fueled the recent advance in label-efficient object detection. However, existing studies focus on pre-training only a feature extractor network to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Nanqing Dong , Linus Ericsson , Yongxin Yang , Ales Leonardis , Steven McDonagh

Single-point supervised infrared small target detection (IRSTD) drastically reduces dense annotation costs. Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods achieve high precision by recovering mask supervision through explicit, offline pseudo-label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Qiancheng Zhou , Wenhua Zhang

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 (IRSTD) faces significant challenges due to the low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), small target size, and complex cluttered backgrounds. Although recent DETR-based detectors benefit from global context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Yuteng Liu , Duanni Meng , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

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

Few shot segmentation (FSS) aims to learn pixel-level classification of a target object in a query image using only a few annotated support samples. This is challenging as it requires modeling appearance variations of target objects and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Soopil Kim , Philip Chikontwe , Sang Hyun Park

Programmatic weak supervision (PWS) significantly reduces human effort for labeling data by combining the outputs of user-provided labeling functions (LFs) on unlabeled datapoints. However, the quality of the generated labels depends…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chenjie Li , Amir Gilad , Boris Glavic , Zhengjie Miao , Sudeepa Roy

For object detection, the two-stage approach (e.g., Faster R-CNN) has been achieving the highest accuracy, whereas the one-stage approach (e.g., SSD) has the advantage of high efficiency. To inherit the merits of both while overcoming their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Shifeng Zhang , Longyin Wen , Xiao Bian , Zhen Lei , Stan Z. Li

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

This paper investigates the problem of high-precision target localization in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems, where the target is sensed via both a direct path and a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Huyen-Trang Ta , Ngoc-Son Duong , Trung-Hieu Nguyen , Van-Linh Nguyen , Thai-Mai Dinh

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

Infrared small target detection is currently a hot and challenging task in computer vision. Existing methods usually focus on mining visual features of targets, which struggles to cope with complex and diverse detection scenarios. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Feng Huang , Shuyuan Zheng , Zhaobing Qiu , Huanxian Liu , Huanxin Bai , Liqiong Chen