Infrared small target segmentation networks: A survey

R Kou, C Wang, Z Peng, Z Zhao, Y Chen, J Han… - Pattern recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Fast and robust small target detection is one of the key technologies in the infrared (IR)
search and tracking systems. With the development of deep learning, there are many data …

Infrared small target detection based on adaptive region growing algorithm with iterative threshold analysis

Y Li, Z Li, Z Guo, A Siddique, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing infrared (IR) small target detection algorithms often lack adaptability in complex
scenes and heavily rely on parameter configurations. To address this limitation, we propose …

One-stage cascade refinement networks for infrared small target detection

Y Dai, X Li, F Zhou, Y Qian, Y Chen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

LW-IRSTNet: Lightweight infrared small target segmentation network and application deployment

R Kou, C Wang, Y Yu, Z Peng, M Yang… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Efficiently and accurately separating infrared (IR) small targets from complex backgrounds
presents a significant challenge. Numerous studies in the literature have proposed various …

Infrared small and dim target detection with transformer under complex backgrounds

F Liu, C Gao, F Chen, D Meng, W Zuo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The infrared small and dim (S&D) target detection is one of the key techniques in the infrared
search and tracking system. Since the local regions similar to infrared S&D targets spread …

Towards accurate infrared small target detection via edge-aware gated transformer

Y Zhu, Y Ma, F Fan, J Huang, K Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Extracting small targets from complex backgrounds is the eventual goal of single-frame
infrared small target detection, which has many potential applications in defense security …

[HTML][HTML] Combining deep denoiser and low-rank priors for infrared small target detection

T Liu, Q Yin, J Yang, Y Wang, W An - Pattern Recognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Many existing low-rank methods have achieved good detection performance in uniform
scenes, but they suffer from a high false alarm rate in complex noisy scenes. Therefore, it is …

Graph Laplacian regularization for fast infrared small target detection

T Liu, Y Liu, J Yang, B Li, Y Wang, W An - Pattern Recognition, 2025 - Elsevier
Existing low-rank methods usually introduce manifold learning to achieve good detection
performance in complex scenes. However, these methods suffer from high computational …

MAPFF: Multi-Angle Pyramid Feature Fusion Network for Infrared Dim Small Target Detection

H Yang, J Liu, Z Wang, Z Fu, Q Tan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Infrared dim small target (IDST) detection holds significant importance in early target
warning and ground monitoring. However, IDST detection remains a long-standing …

Multispectral pattern camouflage materials based on PU/Al-flake composite: A CNN-based evaluation

J Nam, I Chang, JS Lim, M Yun, HH Cho - Applied Surface Science, 2025 - Elsevier
With the continuous progress in optical sensor technologies, the emergence of imagery
detection systems operating in the infrared (IR) band has become a reality. In response, we …