A Novel Filtering-Based Detection Method for Small Targets in Infrared Images

Infrared small target detection technology plays a pivotal role in critical military applications,including early warning systems and precision guidance for missiles and other defense mechanisms.Nevertheless,existing traditional methods face several significant challenges,including low background suppression ability,low detection rates,and high false alarm rates when identifying infrared small targets in complex environments.This paper proposes a novel infrared small target detection method based on a transformed Gaussian filter kernel and clustering approach.The method provides improved background suppression and detection accuracy compared to traditional techniques while maintaining simplicity and lower computational costs.In the first step,the infrared image is filtered by a new filter kernel and the results of filtering are normalized.In the second step,an adaptive thresholding method is utilized to determine the pixels in small targets.In the final step,a fuzzy C-mean clustering algorithm is employed to group pixels in the same target,thus yielding the detection results.The results obtained from various real infrared image datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over traditional approaches.Compared with the traditional method of state of the arts detection method,the detection accuracy of the four sequences is increased by 2.06%,0.95%,1.03%,and 1.01%,respectively,and the false alarm rate is reduced,thus providing a more effective and robust solution.

Improved Weighted Local Contrast Method for Infrared Small Target Detection

In order to address the problem of high false alarm rate and low probabilities of infrared small target detection in complex low-altitude background,an infrared small target detection method based on improved weighted local contrast is proposed in this paper.First,the ratio information between the target and local background is utilized as an enhancement factor.The local contrast is calculated by incorporating the heterogeneity between the target and local background.Then,a local product weighted method is designed based on the spatial dissimilarity between target and background to further enhance target while suppressing background.Finally,the location of target is obtained by adaptive threshold segmentation.As experimental results demonstrate,the method shows superior performance in several evaluation metrics compared with six existing algorithms on different datasets containing targets such as unmanned aerial vehicles(UAV).

Novel detection method for infrared small targets using weighted information entropy

This paper presents a method for detecting the small infrared target under complex background. An algorithm, named local mutation weighted information entropy （LMWIE）, is proposed to suppress background. Then, the grey value of targets is enhanced by calculating the local energy. Image segmentation based on the adaptive threshold is used to solve the problems that the grey value of noise is enhanced with the grey value improvement of targets. Experimental results show that compared with the adaptive Butterworth high-pass filter method, the proposed algorithm is more effective and faster for the infrared small target detection.

An infrared target intrusion detection method based on feature fusion and enhancement

Infrared target intrusion detection has significant applications in the fields of military defence and intelligent warning.In view of the characteristics of intrusion targets as well as inspection difficulties,an infrared target intrusion detection algorithm based on feature fusion and enhancement was proposed.This algorithm combines static target mode analysis and dynamic multi-frame correlation detection to extract infrared target features at different levels.Among them,LBP texture analysis can be used to effectively identify the posterior feature patterns which have been contained in the target library,while motion frame difference method can detect the moving regions of the image,improve the integrity of target regions such as camouflage,sheltering and deformation.In order to integrate the advantages of the two methods,the enhanced convolutional neural network was designed and the feature images obtained by the two methods were fused and enhanced.The enhancement module of the network strengthened and screened the targets,and realized the background suppression of infrared images.Based on the experiments,the effect of the proposed method and the comparison method on the background suppression and detection performance was evaluated,and the results showed that the SCRG and BSF values of the method in this paper had a better performance in multiple data sets,and it’s detection performance was far better than the comparison algorithm.The experiment results indicated that,compared with traditional infrared target detection methods,the proposed method could detect the infrared invasion target more accurately,and suppress the background noise more effectively.

Dim Moving Small Target Detection by Local and Global Variance Filtering on Temporal Profiles in Infrared Sequences

In this paper, the temporal different characteristics between the target and background pixels are used to detect dim moving targets in the slow-evolving complex background. A local and global variance filter on temporal profiles is presented that addresses the temporal characteristics of the target and background pixels to eliminate the large variation of background temporal profiles. Firstly, the temporal behaviors of different types of image pixels of practical infrared scenes are analyzed.Then, the new local and global variance filter is proposed. The baseline of the fluctuation level of background temporal profiles is obtained by using the local and global variance filter. The height of the target pulse signal is extracted by subtracting the baseline from the original temporal profiles. Finally, a new target detection criterion is designed. The proposed method is applied to detect dim and small targets in practical infrared sequence images. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has good detection performance for dim moving small targets in the complex background.

Infrared Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on ISTD-CenterNet

This paper proposes a real-time detection method to improve the Infrared small target detection CenterNet(ISTD-CenterNet)network for detecting small infrared targets in complex environments.The method eliminates the need for an anchor frame,addressing the issues of low accuracy and slow speed.HRNet is used as the framework for feature extraction,and an ECBAM attention module is added to each stage branch for intelligent identification of the positions of small targets and significant objects.A scale enhancement module is also added to obtain a high-level semantic representation and fine-resolution prediction map for the entire infrared image.Besides,an improved sensory field enhancement module is designed to leverage semantic information in low-resolution feature maps,and a convolutional attention mechanism module is used to increase network stability and convergence speed.Comparison experiments conducted on the infrared small target data set ESIRST.The experiments show that compared to the benchmark network CenterNet-HRNet,the proposed ISTD-CenterNet improves the recall by 22.85%and the detection accuracy by 13.36%.Compared to the state-of-the-art YOLOv5small,the ISTD-CenterNet recall is improved by 5.88%,the detection precision is improved by 2.33%,and the detection frame rate is 48.94 frames/sec,which realizes the accurate real-time detection of small infrared targets.

PF-YOLOv4-Tiny: Towards Infrared Target Detection on Embedded Platform

Infrared target detection models are more required than ever before to be deployed on embedded platforms,which requires models with less memory consumption and better real-time performance while considering accuracy.To address the above challenges,we propose a modified You Only Look Once(YOLO)algorithm PF-YOLOv4-Tiny.The algorithm incorpo-rates spatial pyramidal pooling(SPP)and squeeze-and-excitation(SE)visual attention modules to enhance the target localization capability.The PANet-based-feature pyramid networks(P-FPN)are proposed to transfer semantic information and location information simultaneously to ameliorate detection accuracy.To lighten the network,the standard convolutions other than the backbone network are replaced with depthwise separable convolutions.In post-processing the images,the soft-non-maximum suppression(soft-NMS)algorithm is employed to subside the missed and false detection problems caused by the occlusion between targets.The accuracy of our model can finally reach 61.75%,while the total Params is only 9.3 M and GFLOPs is 11.At the same time,the inference speed reaches 87 FPS on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti,which can meet the requirements of the infrared target detection algorithm for the embedded deployments.

Infrared Image Small Target Detection Based on Bi-orthogonal Wavelet and Morphology

An image multi-scale edge detection method based on anti-symmetrical bi-orthogonal wavelet is given in theory. Convolution operation property and function as a differential operator are analyzed,which anti-symmetrical bi-orthogonal wavelet transform have. An algorithm for wavelet reconstruction in which multi-scale edge can be detected is put forward. Based on it, a detection method for small target in infrared image with sea or sky background based on the anti-symmetrical bi-orthogonal wavelet and morphology is proposed. The small target detection is considered as a process in which structural background is removed, correlative background is suppressed, and noise is restrained. In this approach, the multi-scale edge is extracted by means of the anti-symmetrical bi-orthogonal wavelet decomposition. Then, module maximum chains formed by complicated background of clouds, sea wave and sea-sky-line are removed, and the image background becomes smoother. Finally, the morphology based edge detection method is used to get small target and restrain undulate background and noise. Experiment results show that the approach can suppress clutter background and detect the small target effectively.

CAFUNeT:A small infrared target detection method in complex backgrounds

Small infrared target detection has widespread applications in various fields including military,aviation,and medicine.However,detecting small infrared targets in complex backgrounds remains challenging.To detect small infrared targets,we propose a variable-structure U-shaped network referred as CAFUNet.A central differential convolution-based encoder,ASPP,an Attention Fusion module,and a decoder module are the critical components of the CAFUNet.The encoder module based on central difference convolution effectively extracts shallow detail information from infrared images,complemented by rich contextual information obtained from the deep features in the decoder module.However,the direct fusion of the shallow detail features with semantic features may lead to feature mismatch.To address this,we incorporate an Attention Fusion(AF)module to enhance the network performance further.We performed ablation studies on each module to evaluate its effectiveness.The results show that our proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art methods on publicly available datasets.

Using deep learning to detect small targets in infrared oversampling images

According to the oversampling imaging characteristics, an infrared small target detection method based on deep learning is proposed. A 7-layer deep convolutional neural network(CNN) is designed to automatically extract small target features and suppress clutters in an end-to-end manner. The input of CNN is an original oversampling image while the output is a cluttersuppressed feature map. The CNN contains only convolution and non-linear operations, and the resolution of the output feature map is the same as that of the input image. The L1-norm loss function is used, and a mass of training data is generated to train the network effectively. Results show that compared with several baseline methods, the proposed method improves the signal clutter ratio gain and background suppression factor by 3–4 orders of magnitude, and has more powerful target detection performance.

Improving the target position detection in the crossed array trackers seeker using the pulses number distribution in the FOV

Seeking in a field of view(FOV) is influenced by the existence of jammers,noise,shine background or flying perturbations.All these factors may push the target out of the FOV and cause missing the target.In all the seekers the FOV is not fully exploited which means the target can be missed before becoming out of the FOV,this results of the nonlinearity of the reticle structure.In this paper,a novel method of the target position detection a crossed four slits or crossed array trackers(CAT) seeker will be designed,simulated and evaluated.The idea of this method depends on dividing the FOV into main regions up to a certain parameter,which is the pulses number;then,each main region will be divided into sub-regions up to a second parameter which will be the pulses distribution a spin period.The errors sources will be discussed and evaluated.Other new idea will be applied which is exploiting some area of the FOV where a part of the position data is missed in the information signal by pushing the target to the region where the information signal carries the total position data.

Multi-Channel Based on Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection

Infrared detection technology has the advantages of all-weather detection and good concealment,which is widely used in long-distance target detection and tracking systems.However,the complex background,the strong noise,and the characteristics of small scale and weak intensity of targets bring great difficulties to the detection of infrared small targets.A multi-channel based on attention network is proposed in this paper,aimed at the problem of high missed detection rate and false alarm rate of traditional algorithms and the problem of large model,high complexity and poor detection performance of deep learning algorithms.First,given the difficulty in extracting the features of infrared multiscale and small dim targets,the multiple channels are designed based on dilated convolution to capture multiscale target features.Second,the coordinate attention block is incorporated in each channel to suppress background clutters adaptively and enhance target features.In addition,the fusion of shallow detail features and deep abstract semantic features is realized by synthesizing the contextual attention fusion block.Finally,it is verified that,compared with other state-of-the-art methods based on the datasets SIRST and MDFA,the proposed algorithm further improves the detection effect,and the model size and computational complexity are smaller.

局部对比度融合重加权的红外图像小目标检测

红外图像块小目标检测算法在数据链、预警、制导等领域有较为广泛的应用,如利用数据链可以将红外图像块小目标精确传送给雷达。为了在复杂背景条件下进一步提高红外小目标检测的效果,提出了一种重加权和局部先验融合的红外图像块(IPI)小目标检测算法。首先,采用加权Schatten p范数对背景图像块进行约束;其次,引入局部对比度先验信息和加权l_(1)范数抑制非目标稀疏点,进一步增强目标图像稀疏性,使算法模型性能进一步得到提升。仿真结果表明,所提算法在抑制背景杂波和精确检测目标方面均有较好的结果,优于现有经典算法。

红外成像导引头对隐身飞机探测性能提升途径分析

隐身飞机的出现对现有雷达和红外制导空空导弹的目标探测能力都提出了挑战。由于隐身飞机对雷达隐身的效果优于红外,相对而言,红外制导空空导弹具有反隐身的优势。但红外导引头仍需采取一定的措施以提高其对隐身目标的探测识别能力。本文针对红外成像导引头探测隐身目标能力提升需求,首先梳理了隐身飞机的红外辐射特征,之后根据红外成像导引头探测性能的影响因素,提出了采用双色/多波段成像探测、优化系统工作参数设计、提高成像质量和场景自适应性、采用低信杂比目标检测截获等技术以提高系统对隐身飞机的探测识别能力。

基于YOLOv5s的改进实时红外小目标检测

针对红外图像分辨率低、背景复杂、目标细节特征缺失等问题,提出了一种基于YOLOv5s的改进实时红外小目标检测模型Infrared-YOLOv5s。在特征提取阶段,采用SPD-Conv进行下采样,将特征图切分为特征子图并按通道拼接,避免了多尺度特征提取过程中下采样导致的特征丢失情况,设计了一种基于空洞卷积的改进空间金字塔池化模块,通过对具有不同感受野的特征进行融合来提高特征提取能力;在特征融合阶段,引入由深到浅的注意力模块,将深层特征语义特征嵌入到浅层空间特征中,增强浅层特征的表达能力;在预测阶段,裁减了网络中针对大目标检测的特征提取层、融合层及预测层,降低模型大小的同时提高了实时性。首先通过消融实验验证了提出各模块的有效性,实验结果表明,改进模型在SIRST数据集上平均精度均值达到了95.4%,较原始YOLOv5s提高了2.3%,且模型大小降低了72.9%,仅为4.5 M,在Nvidia Xavier上推理速度达到28 f/s,利于实际的部署和应用。在Infrared-PV数据集上的迁移实验进一步验证了改进算法的有效性。提出的改进模型在提高红外图像小目标检测性能的同时,能够满足实时性要求,因而适用于红外图像小目标实时检测任务。

一种基于红外图像的空间目标探测方法

针对空间环境中的监视高速运动小目标的需求,提出一种基于红外图像的空间目标探测方法,实现对空间非合作目标的检测、跟踪与识别。根据目标红外特性,目标检测过程采用阈值分割算法分割目标,通过重心法提取目标质心,采用星图匹配方法剔除恒星背景;目标跟踪识别过程采用轨迹关联算法进行多目标编批及轨迹跟踪,采用基于目标运动速度信息和方向矢量信息的目标分类算法最终识别目标。实验结果表明,应用该方法能够在1 s内实现空间目标探测,满足空间环境监视对目标探测的实时性好、检测概率高、虚警概率低等要求。

基于联合方向梯度和均值对比度的红外弱小目标检测方法

针对小目标在整幅图像中占比很低,且目标周围存在大量杂波,提出了一种基于联合方向梯度(Associated Directional Gradient,ADG)和均值对比度(Mean Contrast,MC)的红外弱小目标检测算法。该算法由两个模块组成:ADG利用红外弱小目标的高斯分布模型,将单一方向的梯度与一个相邻方向上的梯度相加组成新的联合梯度特征,增强真实目标、抑制背景杂波的同时能够消除高亮边缘对目标检测效果的影响;MC融入方向信息来计算目标的多方向对比度,选用多方向对比度的最小值抑制结构噪声,并将均值滤波的思想引入对比度的计算,抑制背景中的孤立噪声,进一步降低检测的虚警率。在实际红外图像上的实验结果表明,该算法在增强目标信噪比和抑制背景噪声方面,能够取得较好效果。

基于跨越连接与融合注意力机制的红外弱小目标检测方法

针对复杂背景红外小弱目标信号弱、特征不明显、干扰虚警多等检测性能低问题,提出基于跨越连接与融合注意力机制的单阶段红外弱小目标检测算法。该方法融合注意力机制与残差网络提取小目标多特征,减少复杂背景干扰;双向跨越连接结构融合低层与高层各自的特征信息,凸显小弱目标特征表达能力;增加一个高分辨率检测层,重新聚类弱小目标先验框,增强目标与背景的特征差别学习能力;最后,建立真实目标和预测目标框的高斯分布模型,计算两者相似性,解决因IoU度量造成的目标损失回归偏差敏感问题,提升损失回归准确性。在公开红外小目标数据集上进行对比测试,实验结果表明该算法对多种复杂背景下红外小弱目标检测均取得了最佳性能,在平均精度和速度等方面都得到显著提升,模型最小,方便部署。

HRformer:基于多级回归Transformer网络的红外小目标检测

红外小目标检测是指从低信噪比、复杂背景的红外图像中对小目标进行检测,在海上救援、交通管理等应用中具有重要实际意义。然而,由于图像分辨率低、目标尺寸小以及特征不突出等因素,导致红外目标很容易淹没在包含噪声和杂波的背景中,如何精确检测红外小目标的外形信息仍然是一个挑战。针对上述问题,构建了一种基于多级回归Transformer(HRformer)网络的红外小目标检测算法。具体来说,首先为了在获得多尺度信息的同时尽可能避免原始图像信息的损失,采用像素逆重组(PixelUnShuffle)操作对原始图像下采样来获取不同层级网络的输入,同时采用一种可学习的像素重组(PixelShuffle)操作对每一层级的输出特征图进行上采样,提升了网络的灵活性;接着,为实现网络中不同层级特征之间的信息交互,本文设计了一种包含空间注意力计算分支以及通道注意力计算分支在内的交叉注意力融合(cross attention fusion,CAF)模块实现特征高效融合以及信息互补;最后,为进一步提升网络的检测性能,结合普通Transformer结构具有较大感受野以及基于窗口的Transformer结构具有较少计算复杂度的优势,提出了一种局部-全局Transformer(LGT)结构,能够在提取局部上下文信息的同时对全局依赖关系进行建模,计算成本也得到节省。实验结果表明,与目前较为先进的一些红外小目标检测算法相比,本文所提出的算法具有更高的检测精度,同时具有较少的参数量,在解决实际问题中更有意义。

基于YOLOv7-EPAN的光伏板红外图像缺陷检测

光伏板是光伏电站重要组成部件,需定期对其进行检测,保证光伏电站安全运行。针对航拍光伏图像复杂背景下小目标难检测的问题,提出一种基于YOLOv7-EPAN的光伏板红外图像缺陷检测方法。首先提出融合CSWin Transformer的扩展高效网络CS-ELAN模块,捕获全局有效信息抑制背景信息;其次以CS-ELAN为基础构建高效路径特征聚合网络EPAN(Efficient path aggregation characteristic pyramid network),加强不同特征层的信息交互,丰富语义特征信息,提高特征表达能力;最后优化损失函数,使模型关注高质量先验框,提高小目标定位精度。在航拍光伏红外数据集上进行实验,结果表明:相比于原YOLOv7模型,所提方法的mAP50、mAP50:95分别提高了6.4%、3.3%,表明所提方法能较好地解决航拍光伏图像复杂背景下小目标缺陷漏检的问题。