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Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is widely used in civilian and military applications. However, ISTD encounters several challenges, including the tendency for small and dim targets to be obscured by complex backgrounds. To address…

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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…

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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…

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Infrared small target detection plays a crucial role in military reconnaissance and air defense systems. However,existing low-rank sparse based methods still face high computational complexity when dealing with low-contrast small targets…

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Infrared small target detection (ISTD) under complex backgrounds is a difficult problem, for the differences between targets and backgrounds are not easy to distinguish. Background reconstruction is one of the methods to deal with this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jingchao Peng , Haitao Zhao , Kaijie Zhao , Zhongze Wang , Lujian Yao

Moving infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a critical role in practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based search system. Moving IRSTD still remains highly challenging due to weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Houzhang Fang , Shukai Guo , Qiuhuan Chen , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan

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

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

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

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

Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) aims to segment small targets from infrared clutter background. Existing methods mainly focus on discriminative approaches, i.e., a pixel-level front-background binary segmentation. Since infrared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Haoqing Li , Jinfu Yang , Yifei Xu , Runshi Wang

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

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) faces significant challenges due to low signal-to-noise ratios, complex backgrounds, and the absence of discernible target features. While deep learning-based encoder-decoder frameworks have advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuelin Qian , Jiaming Lu , Zixuan Wang , Wenxuan Wang , Zhongling Huang , Dingwen Zhang , Junwei Han

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Fei Zhou , Maixia Fu , Yulei Qian , Jian Yang , Yimian Dai

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

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) 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 (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
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