English
Related papers

Related papers: Breaking Self-Attention Failure: Rethinking Query …

200 papers

The recently developed DEtection TRansformer (DETR) establishes a new object detection paradigm by eliminating a series of hand-crafted components. However, DETR suffers from extremely slow convergence, which increases the training cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Gongjie Zhang , Zhipeng Luo , Yingchen Yu , Kaiwen Cui , Shijian Lu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-04 Ke-Xin Li

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 is crucial for remote sensing applications like disaster warning and maritime surveillance. However, due to the lack of distinctive texture and morphological features, infrared small targets are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Zuo , Songwei Pei , Qian Li

Recently, infrared small target detection (IRSTD) has been dominated by deep-learning-based methods. However, these methods mainly focus on the design of complex model structures to extract discriminative features, leaving the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Qiankun Liu , Rui Liu , Bolun Zheng , Hongkui Wang , Ying Fu

Incremental few-shot object detection aims at detecting novel classes without forgetting knowledge of the base classes with only a few labeled training data from the novel classes. Most related prior works are on incremental object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Na Dong , Yongqiang Zhang , Mingli Ding , Gim Hee Lee

Object Detection with Transformers (DETR) and related works reach or even surpass the highly-optimized Faster-RCNN baseline with self-attention network architectures. Inspired by the evidence that pure self-attention possesses a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wenchi Ma , Tianxiao Zhang , Guanghui Wang

Recently, infrared small target detection with single-point supervision has attracted extensive attention. However, the detection accuracy of existing methods has difficulty meeting actual needs. Therefore, we propose an innovative refined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi , Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) faces two major challenges: a lack of discernible target texture and severe background clutter, which results in the background obscuring the target. To enhance targets and suppress backgrounds, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chen Hu , Mingyu Zhou , Shuai Yuan , Hongbo Hu , Zhenming Peng , Tian Pu , Xiying Li

Single-frame InfraRed Small Target (SIRST) detection has been a challenging task due to a lack of inherent characteristics, imprecise bounding box regression, a scarcity of real-world datasets, and sensitive localization evaluation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yimian Dai , Xiang Li , Fei Zhou , Yulei Qian , Yaohong Chen , Jian Yang

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

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) is challenging due to complex backgrounds, low signal-to-clutter ratios, and varying target sizes and shapes. Effective detection relies on capturing local contextual information at the appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Guoyi Zhang , Guangsheng Xu , Han Wang , Siyang Chen , Yunxiao Shan , Xiaohu Zhang

Infrared small target sequences exhibit strong similarities between frames and contain rich contextual information, which motivates us to achieve sequential infrared small target segmentation (IRSTS) with minimal data. Inspired by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Bingbing Dan , Meihui Li , Tao Tang , Jing Zhang

Detecting tiny objects plays a vital role in remote sensing intelligent interpretation, as these objects often carry critical information for downstream applications. However, due to the extremely limited pixel information and significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zixiao Wen , Zhen Yang , Xianjie Bao , Lei Zhang , Xiantai Xiang , Wenshuai Li , Yuhan Liu

Limited by equipment limitations and the lack of target intrinsic features, existing infrared small target detection methods have difficulty meeting actual comprehensive performance requirements. Therefore, we propose an innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Chuang Yu , Yunpeng Liu , Jinmiao Zhao , Zelin Shi

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

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

Infrared small target detection (ISTD) has attracted widespread attention and been applied in various fields. Due to the small size of infrared targets and the noise interference from complex backgrounds, the performance of ISTD using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ao Wang , Wei Li , Xin Wu , Zhanchao Huang , Ran Tao

Recent advancements in deep learning have greatly advanced the field of infrared small object detection (IRSTD). Despite their remarkable success, a notable gap persists between these IRSTD methods and generic segmentation approaches in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Mingjin Zhang , Chi Zhang , Qiming Zhang , Yunsong Li , Xinbo Gao , Jing Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target tracking based on thermal infrared imaging has been one of the most important sensing technologies in anti-UAV applications. However, the infrared UAV targets often exhibit weak features and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Houzhang Fang , Chenxing Wu , Kun Bai , Tianqi Chen , Xiaolin Wang , Xiyang Liu , Yi Chang , Luxin Yan