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Computer vision researchers have extensively worked on fundamental infrared visual recognition for the past few decades. Among various approaches, deep learning has emerged as the most promising candidate. However, Infrared Small Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Imad Ali Shah , Fahad Mumtaz Malik , Muhammad Waqas Ashraf

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims at separating small targets from clutter backgrounds. With the advances of deep learning, CNN-based methods have yielded promising results in generic object detection due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Boyang Li , Chao Xiao , Longguang Wang , Yingqian Wang , Zaiping Lin , Miao Li , Wei An , Yulan Guo

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

Current CNN-based infrared small target detection(IRSTD) methods generally overlook the heterogeneity between shallow and deep features, leading to inefficient collaboration between shallow fine grained structural information and deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Taoran Yue , Xiaojin Lu , Jiaxi Cai , Yuanping Chen , Shibing Chu

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 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

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

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

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 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 vital for long-range surveillance in military, maritime, and early warning applications. ISTD is challenged by targets occupying less than 0.15% of the image and low distinguishability from complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Wenhao Xu , Shuchen Zheng , Changwei Wang , Zherui Zhang , Chuan Ren , Rongtao Xu , Shibiao Xu

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

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 (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

Target detection in high-resolution remote sensing imagery faces challenges due to the low recognition accuracy of small targets and high computational costs. The computational complexity of the Transformer architecture increases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Qianqian Zhang , WeiJun Wang , Yunxing Liu , Li Zhou , Hao Zhao , Junshe An , Zihan Wang

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

Recently, infrared small target detection has attracted extensive attention. However, due to the small size and the lack of intrinsic features of infrared small targets, the existing methods generally have the problem of inaccurate edge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jinmiao Zhao , Chuang Yu , Zelin Shi , Yunpeng Liu , Yingdi Zhang

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has recently benefitted greatly from U-shaped neural models. However, largely overlooking effective global information modeling, existing techniques struggle when the target has high similarities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shuai Yuan , Hanlin Qin , Xiang Yan , Naveed AKhtar , Ajmal Mian

This paper introduces a lightweight image super-resolution (SR) network, termed the Multi-scale Spatial Adaptive Attention Network (MSAAN), to address the common dilemma between high reconstruction fidelity and low model complexity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sushi Rao , Jingwei 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