A) Single Frame Detection (Matrix) (9)
IPI ()
C. Gao, D. Meng, Y. Yang, Y. Wang, X. Zhou, A. Hauptmann, “Infrared Patch-Image Model for Small Target Detection in a Single Image”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 22, No. 12, December 2013.
NRAM ()
L. Zhang, L. Peng, T. Zhang, S. Cao, Z. Peng, "Infrared small target detection via non-convex rank approximation minimization joint l2,1 norm", MDPI Remote Sensing, 2018.
NOLC ()
T. Zhang, H. Wu, Y. Liu, L. Peng, C. Yang, Z. Peng, "Infrared Small Target Detection based on Non-Convex Optimization with Lp-Norm Constraint", MDPI Remote Sensing, 2019.
NARIRM ()
J. Deng, X. Cui, K. Li, J. Hu, C. Long, Y. Yin, "Nonlocal Affinity-based Robust Interference-Resistant Model for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, pages 1-5, 2025.
DW-SSD ()
B. Dan, Z. Zhu, X. Qi, J. Zhang, Y. Ouyang, M. Li, T. Tang, "Dynamic Weight-Guided Smooth-Sparse Decomposition for Small Target Detection Against Strong Vignetting Background", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 73, pages 1-15, 2024.
RCTVW ()
T. Liu, J. Yang, B. Li, Y. Wang, W. An, "Representative Coefficient Total Variation for Efficient Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 61, pages 1-18, 2023.
RPCANet ()
F. Wu, T. Zhang, L. Li, Y. Huang, Z. Peng, “RPCANet: Deep Unfolding RPCA based Infrared Small Target Detection”, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, WACV 2024, pages 4809-4818, 2024.
DURD ()
F. Hao, F. Wei, F. Zhou, Z. Wang, S. Yao, X. Yang, "Deep Unfolding Residual Decomposition for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026.
B) Multiple Frame Detection (Tensor) (14)
Tensor ISTD ()
ECA-STT ()
ASTTV-NTLA ()
4D-ISTD ()
F. Wu, H. Yu, A. Liu, J. Luo, Z. Peng, "Infrared Small Target Detection using Spatio-Temporal 4D Tensor Train and Ring Unfolding", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023.
ASTITWPTAR ()
Y. Sun, Z. Lin, T. Liu, B. Li, Q. Yin, J. Chen, "Adaptive Spatial-Temporal Tensor and Weighted Tensor Average Rank Approximation for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2025.
PSTNN ()
L. Zhang, Z. Peng, "Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Partial Sum of the Tensor Nuclear Norm", MDPI Remote Sensing, 2025.
GST ()
C. Gao, J. Tian, P. Wang, "Generalised-structure-tensor-based infrared small target detection, Electronics Letters, Volume 44, No. 23, pages 1349-1351, 2008.
GLLS-LMAG ()
J. Li, X. Hou, Y. Zeng, "Infrared Small Target Detection using the Global Low-Rank and Local Smoothness Coupled Representation with Local Structure", Neurocomputing, 2025.
FGLR-MCP ()
STPA-FCTN ()
DRTENet ()
J. Ma, X. Zhang, Z. Yang, F. Shi, C. Jiang, X. Cheng, "Dual-Focus Residual Tensor Enhancement Network for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 63, pages 1-13, 2025.
WSWTNN-PnP ()
T. Liu, Q. Yin, J. Yang, Y. Wang, W. An, "Combining Deep Denoiser and Low-rank Priors for Infrared Small Target Detection", Pattern Recognition, 2023.
NeurSTT ()
F. Wu, S. Liu, H. Wang, B. Tao, J. Luo, Z. Peng, "Neural Spatial–Temporal Tensor Representation for Infrared Small Target Detection", Pattern Recognition, 2026.
J. Yin, H. Li, Y. Zheng, X. Geng, "DNN-aided Low-Rank and Sparse Decomposition Model for Infrared Small Target Detection”, Pattern Recognition, 2026.