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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

With the advancement of aerospace technology and the increasing demands of military applications, the development of low false-alarm and high-precision infrared small target detection algorithms has emerged as a key focus of research…

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Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection poses a significant challenge due to the requirement to discern minute targets amidst complex infrared background clutter. In this paper, we focus on a weakly-supervised paradigm to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Weijie He , Mushui Liu , Yunlong Yu

The widespread deployment of Infrared Small-Target Detection (IRSTD) algorithms on edge devices necessitates the exploration of model compression techniques. Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are distinguished by their exceptional efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Biqiao Xin , Qianchen Mao , Bingshu Wang , Jiangbin Zheng , Yong Zhao , C. L. Philip Chen

Recently, the field of few-shot detection within remote sensing imagery has witnessed significant advancements. Despite these progresses, the capacity for continuous conceptual learning still poses a significant challenge to existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wuzhou Li , Jiawei Zhou , Xiang Li , Yi Cao , Guang Jin , Xuemin Zhang

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

To mitigate the issue of minimal intrinsic features for pure data-driven methods, in this paper, we propose a novel model-driven deep network for infrared small target detection, which combines discriminative networks and conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) methods predominantly formulate the task as pixel-level segmentation, which requires costly dense annotations and is not well suited to tiny targets with weak texture and ambiguous boundaries. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Jie Tang , Man Yang , Jiafeng Zhang , Xiaodong Peng

Real-world infrared imagery presents unique challenges for vision-language models due to the scarcity of aligned text data and domain-specific characteristics. Although existing methods have advanced the field, their reliance on synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zhe Cao , Jin Zhang , Ruiheng Zhang

Multispectral object detection, utilizing RGB and TIR (thermal infrared) modalities, is widely recognized as a challenging task. It requires not only the effective extraction of features from both modalities and robust fusion strategies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Chen Zhou , Peng Cheng , Junfeng Fang , Yifan Zhang , Yibo Yan , Xiaojun Jia , Yanyan Xu , Kun Wang , Xiaochun Cao

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

The Multiple Instance Hybrid Estimator for discriminative target characterization from imprecisely labeled hyperspectral data is presented. In many hyperspectral target detection problems, acquiring accurately labeled training data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Changzhe Jiao , Chao Chen , Ronald G. McGarvey , Stephanie Bohlman , Licheng Jiao , Alina Zare

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

Single-frame infrared small target (SIRST) detection aims at separating small targets from clutter backgrounds on infrared images. Recently, deep learning based methods have achieved promising performance on SIRST detection, but at the cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Boyang Li , Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Fei Zhang , Ting Liu , Zaiping Lin , Wei An , Yulan Guo

Head detection and tracking are essential for downstream tasks, but current methods often require large computational budgets, which increase latencies and ties up resources (e.g., processors, memory, and bandwidth). To address this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jisu Kim , Alex Mattingly , Eung-Joo Lee , Benjamin S. Riggan

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

Multi-frame infrared small target (MIRST) detection in satellite videos is a long-standing, fundamental yet challenging task for decades, and the challenges can be summarized as: First, extremely small target size, highly complex clutters &…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xinyi Ying , Li Liu , Zaipin Lin , Yangsi Shi , Yingqian Wang , Ruojing Li , Xu Cao , Boyang Li , Shilin Zhou , Wei An

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has been a critical technology in defense and civilian applications over the past several decades, such as missile warning, maritime surveillance, and disaster monitoring. Nevertheless, moving infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yian Huang , Qing Qin , Aji Mao , Xiangyu Qiu , Liang Xu , Xian Zhang , Zhenming Peng

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

Single-frame infrared small target detection remains a challenge not only due to the scarcity of intrinsic target characteristics but also because of lacking a public dataset. In this paper, we first contribute an open dataset with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Yimian Dai , Yiquan Wu , Fei Zhou , Kobus Barnard