Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields

Infrared target detection has a wide range of application value, but due to the characteristics of infrared images, infrared targets are easily submerged in the complex background. Therefore, in complex scenes, it is difficult to effectively and accurately detect infrared dim small targets. For this...

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Main Authors: Xiaozhen Wang, Chengshan Han, Jiaqi Li, Ting Nie, Mingxuan Li, Xiaofeng Wang, Liang Huang
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-01-01
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author Xiaozhen Wang
Chengshan Han
Jiaqi Li
Ting Nie
Mingxuan Li
Xiaofeng Wang
Liang Huang
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Chengshan Han
Jiaqi Li
Ting Nie
Mingxuan Li
Xiaofeng Wang
Liang Huang
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description Infrared target detection has a wide range of application value, but due to the characteristics of infrared images, infrared targets are easily submerged in the complex background. Therefore, in complex scenes, it is difficult to effectively and accurately detect infrared dim small targets. For this reason, we design an infrared dim small target (IDST) detection algorithm containing Large-size Receptive Fields (LRFNet). It uses the Residual network with an Inverted Pyramid Structure (RIPS), which consists of convolutional layers that become progressively smaller, so it can have a larger effective receptive field and can improve the robustness of the model. In addition, through the Attention Mechanisms with Large Receptive Fields and Inverse Bottlenecks (LRIB), it can make the network better localize the region where the target is located and improve the detection effect of the model. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms in all evaluation metrics.
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spelling doaj-art-d910274cd7e9431bb3f78f1062acec492025-01-24T13:48:04ZengMDPI AGRemote Sensing2072-42922025-01-0117230710.3390/rs17020307Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive FieldsXiaozhen Wang0Chengshan Han1Jiaqi Li2Ting Nie3Mingxuan Li4Xiaofeng Wang5Liang Huang6Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaChangchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, ChinaInfrared target detection has a wide range of application value, but due to the characteristics of infrared images, infrared targets are easily submerged in the complex background. Therefore, in complex scenes, it is difficult to effectively and accurately detect infrared dim small targets. For this reason, we design an infrared dim small target (IDST) detection algorithm containing Large-size Receptive Fields (LRFNet). It uses the Residual network with an Inverted Pyramid Structure (RIPS), which consists of convolutional layers that become progressively smaller, so it can have a larger effective receptive field and can improve the robustness of the model. In addition, through the Attention Mechanisms with Large Receptive Fields and Inverse Bottlenecks (LRIB), it can make the network better localize the region where the target is located and improve the detection effect of the model. The experimental results show that our proposed algorithm outperforms other state-of-the-art algorithms in all evaluation metrics.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/2/307convolutional neural networklarge-size convolutional layersinfrared imagesmall-target detection
spellingShingle Xiaozhen Wang
Chengshan Han
Jiaqi Li
Ting Nie
Mingxuan Li
Xiaofeng Wang
Liang Huang
Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields
Remote Sensing
convolutional neural network
large-size convolutional layers
infrared image
small-target detection
title Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields
title_full Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields
title_fullStr Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields
title_full_unstemmed Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields
title_short Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Algorithm with Large-Size Receptive Fields
title_sort infrared dim small target detection algorithm with large size receptive fields
topic convolutional neural network
large-size convolutional layers
infrared image
small-target detection
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/17/2/307
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