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Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Denoising Autoencoder Network

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The method of infrared small target detection is a crucial technology for infrared early-warning tasks, infrared imaging guidance, and large field of view target monitoring, and it is very important for certain early-warning tasks. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end infrared small target detection model (called CDAE) based on denoising autoencoder network and convolutional neural network, which treats small targets as “noise” in infrared images and transforms small target detection tasks into denoising problems. In addition, we use the perceptual loss to solve the problem of background texture feature loss in the encoding process, and propose the structural loss to make up for the perceptual loss defect in which small targets appear. We compare ten methods on six sequences and one single-frame dataset. Experimental results show that our method obtains the highest SCRG value on four sequences and the highest BSF value on six sequences. From the ROC curve, we can see that our method achieves the best results in all test sets.

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The paper is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61703209,61773215).

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Results in different Scenes.The figure above is the original picture, and the figure below shows the output result of the CDAE model

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Shows the result of a representative images with Airplane sequence in each method. From top to bottom,left to right,The result of method are: original image,Max-median, Top-hat, DSVT,LCM, LDM, WLDM, PatchSim, CLSDM, IPI, NIPPS, RIPT, ours

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shows the result of a representative images with Cloudy-sky sequence in each method.The introduction as above

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shows the result of a representative images with Multi-target sequence in each method.The introduction as above

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shows the result of a representative images with Space sequence in each method.The introduction as above

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shows the result of a representative images with Car sequence in each method.The introduction as above

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shows the result of a representative images with Missile sequence in each method.The introduction as above

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shows the result of a representative images with Single set in each method.The introduction as above

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Shi, M., Wang, H. Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Denoising Autoencoder Network. Mobile Netw Appl 25, 1469–1483 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-019-01377-6

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