TY - JOUR
T1 - Residual Depth Feature-Extraction Network for Infrared Small-Target Detection
AU - Wang, Lizhe
AU - Zhang, Yanmei
AU - Xu, Yanbing
AU - Yuan, Ruixin
AU - Li, Shengyun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Deep-learning methods have exhibited exceptional performance in numerous target-detection domains, and their application is steadily expanding to include infrared small-target detection as well. However, the effect of existing deep-learning methods is weakened due to the lack of texture information and the low signal-to-noise ratio of infrared small-target images. To detect small targets in infrared images with limited information, a depth feature-extraction network based on a residual module is proposed in this paper. First, a global attention guidance enhancement module (GAGEM) is used to enhance the original infrared small target image in a single frame, which considers the global and local features. Second, this paper proposes a depth feature-extraction module (DFEM) for depth feature extraction. Our IRST-Involution adds the attention mechanism to the classic Involution module and combines it with the residual module for the feature extraction of the backbone network. Finally, the feature pyramid with self-learning weight parameters is used for feature fusion. The comparative experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that our proposed infrared small-target detection algorithm exhibits higher detection accuracy and better robustness.
AB - Deep-learning methods have exhibited exceptional performance in numerous target-detection domains, and their application is steadily expanding to include infrared small-target detection as well. However, the effect of existing deep-learning methods is weakened due to the lack of texture information and the low signal-to-noise ratio of infrared small-target images. To detect small targets in infrared images with limited information, a depth feature-extraction network based on a residual module is proposed in this paper. First, a global attention guidance enhancement module (GAGEM) is used to enhance the original infrared small target image in a single frame, which considers the global and local features. Second, this paper proposes a depth feature-extraction module (DFEM) for depth feature extraction. Our IRST-Involution adds the attention mechanism to the classic Involution module and combines it with the residual module for the feature extraction of the backbone network. Finally, the feature pyramid with self-learning weight parameters is used for feature fusion. The comparative experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that our proposed infrared small-target detection algorithm exhibits higher detection accuracy and better robustness.
KW - attention mechanism guidance
KW - feature fusion
KW - infrared small-target detection
KW - residual module
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U2 - 10.3390/electronics12122568
DO - 10.3390/electronics12122568
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85163835199
SN - 2079-9292
VL - 12
JO - Electronics (Switzerland)
JF - Electronics (Switzerland)
IS - 12
M1 - 2568
ER -