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Infrared small target detection is crucial for the efficacy of infrared search and tracking systems. Current tensor decomposition methods emphasize representing small targets with sparsity but struggle to separate targets from complex…

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Infrared dim and small target detection presents a significant challenge due to dynamic multi-frame scenarios and weak target signatures in the infrared modality. Traditional low-rank plus sparse models often fail to capture dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Pei Liu , Yisi Luo , Wenzhen Wang , Xiangyong Cao

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

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

Video background subtraction is one of the fundamental problems in computer vision that aims to segment all moving objects. Robust principal component analysis has been identified as a promising unsupervised paradigm for background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Basit Alawode , Sajid Javed

Infrared small target detection is a key technique in infrared search and tracking (IRST) systems. Although deep learning has been widely used in the vision tasks of visible light images recently, it is rarely used in infrared small target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Mingxin Zhao , Li Cheng , Xu Yang , Peng Feng , Liyuan Liu , Nanjian Wu

Small object detection under complex backgrounds remains a challenging task due to severe feature degradation, weak semantic representation, and inaccurate localization caused by downsampling operations and background interference. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Wenguang Tao , Xiaotian Wang , Tian Yan , Yi Wang , Jie Yan

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

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

In remote sensing images, complex backgrounds, weak object signals, and small object scales make accurate detection particularly challenging, especially under low-quality imaging conditions. A common strategy is to integrate single-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ruo Qi , Linhui Dai , Yusong Qin , Chaolei Yang , Yanshan Li

Deep learning (DL) networks have achieved remarkable performance in infrared small target detection (ISTD). However, these structures exhibit a deficiency in interpretability and are widely regarded as black boxes, as they disregard domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Fengyi Wu , Tianfang Zhang , Lei Li , Yian Huang , Zhenming Peng

The robust detection of small targets against cluttered background is important for future artificial visual systems in searching and tracking applications. The insects' visual systems have demonstrated excellent ability to avoid predators,…

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Remote sensing images pose distinct challenges for downstream tasks due to their inherent complexity. While a considerable amount of research has been dedicated to remote sensing classification, object detection and semantic segmentation,…

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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…

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Small target motion detection is critical for insects to search for and track mates or prey which always appear as small dim speckles in the visual field. A class of specific neurons, called small target motion detectors (STMDs), has been…

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Optimization-based approaches dominate infrared small target detection as they leverage infrared imagery's intrinsic low-rankness and sparsity. While effective for single-frame images, they struggle with dynamic changes in multi-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fengyi Wu , Simin Liu , Haoan Wang , Bingjie Tao , Junhai Luo , Zhenming Peng

Due to the complicated background and noise of infrared images, infrared small target detection is one of the most difficult problems in the field of computer vision. In most existing studies, semantic segmentation methods are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Yuhang Chen , Liyuan Li , Xin Liu , Xiaofeng Su , Fansheng Chen

Camouflaged object detection is an emerging and challenging computer vision task that requires identifying and segmenting objects that blend seamlessly into their environments due to high similarity in color, texture, and size. This task is…

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Single-frame infrared small target detection is considered to be a challenging task, due to the extreme imbalance between target and background, bounding box regression is extremely sensitive to infrared small target, and target information…

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