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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 (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

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

We propose a target driven adaptive (TDA) loss to enhance the performance of infrared small target detection (IRSTD). Prior works have used loss functions, such as binary cross-entropy loss and IoU loss, to train segmentation models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuho Shoji , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito

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

Many current activity recognition models use 3D convolutional neural networks (e.g. I3D, I3D-NL) to generate local spatial-temporal features. However, such features do not encode clip-level ordered temporal information. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Xinyu Li , Bing Shuai , Joseph Tighe

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is highly sensitive to sensor type, observation conditions, and the intrinsic properties of the target. These factors can introduce substantial variations in the distribution of acquired infrared image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yahao Lu , Yuehui Li , Xingyuan Guo , Shuai Yuan , Yukai Shi , Liang Lin

Temporal modeling still remains challenging for action recognition in videos. To mitigate this issue, this paper presents a new video architecture, termed as Temporal Difference Network (TDN), with a focus on capturing multi-scale temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Limin Wang , Zhan Tong , Bin Ji , Gangshan Wu

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

Despite the success of deep learning for static image understanding, it remains unclear what are the most effective network architectures for the spatial-temporal modeling in videos. In this paper, in contrast to the existing CNN+RNN or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Dongliang He , Zhichao Zhou , Chuang Gan , Fu Li , Xiao Liu , Yandong Li , Limin Wang , Shilei Wen

Infrared small target (IRST) detection is challenging in simultaneously achieving precise, robust, and efficient performance due to extremely dim targets and strong interference. Current learning-based methods attempt to leverage ``more"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ruojing Li , Wei An , Yingqian Wang , Xinyi Ying , Yimian Dai , Longguang Wang , Miao Li , Yulan Guo , Li Liu

IRSTD (InfraRed Small Target Detection) detects small targets in infrared blurry backgrounds and is essential for various applications. The detection task is challenging due to the small size of the targets and their sparse distribution in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Pranav Singh , Pravendra Singh

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a crucial role in numerous military and civilian applications. However, existing methods often face the gradual degradation of target edge pixels as the number of network layers increases, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shuying Li , Qiang Ma , San Zhang , Wuwei Wang , Chuang Yang

Disparity prediction from stereo images is essential to computer vision applications including autonomous driving, 3D model reconstruction, and object detection. To predict accurate disparity map, we propose a novel deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Zhibo Rao , Mingyi He , Yuchao Dai , Zhidong Zhu , Bo Li , Renjie He

These recent years have witnessed that convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for detecting infrared small targets have achieved outstanding performance. However, these methods typically employ standard convolutions, neglecting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiangnan Yang , Shuangli Liu , Jingjun Wu , Xinyu Su , Nan Hai , Xueli Huang

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) remains a long-standing challenge due to weak signal contrast, limited spatial extent, and cluttered backgrounds. Despite performance improvements from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Hongyang Xie , Hongyang He , Victor Sanchez

Image restoration (IR) is a long-standing task to recover a high-quality image from its corrupted observation. Recently, transformer-based algorithms and some attention-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have presented promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Fangwei Hao , Ji Du , Weiyun Liang , Jing Xu , Xiaoxuan Xu

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has a wide range of applications in early warning, rescue, and guidance. However, CNN based deep learning methods are not effective at segmenting infrared small target (IRST) that it lack of clear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Peiwen Pan , Huan Wang , Chenyi Wang , Chang Nie

Hyperspectral anomalous change detection has been a challenging task for its emphasis on the dynamics of small and rare objects against the prevalent changes. In this paper, we have proposed a Multi-Temporal spatial-spectral Comparison…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Meiqi Hu , Chen Wu , Bo Du

Temporal sentence grounding (TSG) aims to localize the temporal segment which is semantically aligned with a natural language query in an untrimmed video.Most existing methods extract frame-grained features or object-grained features by 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zeyu Xiong , Daizong Liu , Pan Zhou , Jiahao Zhu