Conventional Deep Learning (67 papers)
J. Bai, H. Zhang, Z. Li, "The Generalized Detection Method for the Dim Small Targets by Faster R-CNN Integrated with GAN", IEEE International Conference on Communication and Information Systems, ICCIS 2018, pages 1-5, Singapore, 2018.
M. Zhao, L. Cheng, X. Yang, P. Feng, L. Liu, N. Wu, “TBC-Net: A real-time detector for infrared small target detection using semantic constraint”, Preprint 2019.
Q. Hou, Z. Wang, F. Tan, Y. Zhao, H. Zheng, W. Zhang, "RISTDnet: Robust Infrared Small Target Detection Network", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2021.
B. Zhao, C. Wang, Q. Fu, Z. Han, "A Novel Pattern for Infrared Small Target Detection With Generative Adversarial Network", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020.
Z. Song, J. Yang, D. Zhang, S. Wang, Z. Li, "Semi-Supervised Dim and Small Infrared Ship Detection Network Based on Haar Wavelet", IEEE Access, Volume 9, pages 686-695, 2021.
G. Zhou, L. J. Xu, W. C. Zhou, “Research on small target detection method of infrared sequence image based on depth learning", Laser Journal, Volume 41, No. 12, pages 61-64, 2020.
B. McIntosh, S. Venkataramanan, A. Mahalanobis, “Infrared Target Detection in Cluttered Environments by Maximization of a Target to Clutter Ratio (TCR) Metric using a Convolutional Neural Network", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Volume 57, No. 1, pages 485-496, 2020.
Y. Dai, Y. Wu, F. Zhou, K. Barnard, “Asymmetric contextual modulation for infrared small target detection", CVPR 2021, pages 950–959, 2021.
Y. Dai, Y. Wu, F. Zhou, K. Barnard, “Attentional local contrast networks for infrared small target detection", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021.
B. Li, C. Xiao, L. Wang, Y. Wang, Z. Lin, M. Li, W. An, Y. Guo, “Dense nested attention network for infrared small target detection", Preprint, 2021.
X. Qin, Z. Zhang, C. Huang, M. Dehghan, O. Zaiane, M. Jagersand, “U2-net: Going deeper with nested u-structure for salient object detection,” Pattern Recognition, 2020.
X. Wu, W. Li, D. Hong, Z. Huang, R. Tao, "Going Deeper with U-Net for Infrared Small Object Detection", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2021.
H. Wang, L. Zhou, L. Wang, “Miss detection vs. false alarm: Adversarial learning for small object segmentation in infrared images', CVPR 2019, pages 8509–8518, 2019.
S. Chen, Z. Chen, X. Xu, N. Yang, X. He, "Nv-Net: Efficient infrared image segmentation with convolutional neural networks in the low illumination environment", Infrared Physics and Technology, Volume 105, March 2020.
H. Wang, M. Shi, H. Li, "Infrared dim and small target detection based on two-stage U-skip context aggregation network with a missed-detection-and-false-alarm combination loss", Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 79, No. 47, pages 35383-35404, May 2019.
G. Chen, W.Wang, S. Tan, “IRSTFormer: A hierarchical vision transformer for infrared small target detection", Remote Sensing, Volume 14, No. 14, page 3258, 2022.
J. Lin, S. Li, L. Zhang, X. Yang, B. Yan, Z. Meng, “IR-TransDet: Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection With IR-Transformer", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 61, pages 1–13, 2023.
F. Liu, C. Gao, F. Chen, D. Meng, W. Zuo, X. Gao, “Infrared Small and Dim Target Detection with Transformer under Complex Backgrounds", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Volume 32, pages 5921-5932, 2023.
T. Zhang, L. Li, S. Cao, T. Pu, Z. Peng, ”Attention-Guided Pyramid Context Networks for Detecting Infrared Small Target Under Complex Background", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2023.
Y. Han, J. Liao, T. Lu, T. Pu, Z. Peng, “KCPNet: Knowledge-Driven Context Perception Networks for Ship Detection in Infrared Imagery", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 61, pages 1-19, 2023.
T. Wu, B. Li, Y. Luo, Y. Wang, C. Xiao, T. Liu, J. Yang, W. An, Y. Guo, “MTU-Net: Multilevel TransUNet for Space-Based Infrared Tiny Ship Detection", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 61, pages 1-15, 2023.
J. Zhu, S. Chen, L. Li, L. Ji, “SANet: Spatial Attention Network with Global Average Contrast Learning for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2023, pages 1-5, 2023.
H. Sun, J. Bai, F. Yang, X. Bai, “Receptive-Field and Direction Induced Attention Network for Infrared Dim Small Target Detection with a Large-Scale Dataset IRDST", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 61, pages 1-13, 2023.
W. Tang, Q. Dai, F. Hao, "Differential Attention Orientated Cascade Network for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Volume 17, pages 9253-9265, 2024.
M. Zhang, H. Yang, J. Guo, Y. Li, X. Gao “IRPruneDet: efficient infrared small target detection via wavelet structure-regularized soft channel pruning”, AAAI 2024, 2024.
S. Yuan, H. Qin, X. Yan, N. Akhtar, A. Mian, "SCTransNet: Spatial-Channel Cross Transformer Network for Infrared Small Target Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 62, pages 1-15, 2024.
X. Xu, W. Zhan, Y. Jiang, D. Zhu, Y. Chen, J. Guo, “A single-frame infrared small target detection method based on joint feature guidance”, Complex and Intelligent Systems, April 2024.
S. Chen, L. Ji, J. Zhu, M. Ye, X. Yao, "SSTNet: Sliced Spatio-Temporal Network with Cross-Slice ConvLSTM for Moving Infrared Dim-Small Target Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 62, pages 1-12, 2024.
J. Zhao, Z. Shi, C. Yu, Y. Liu, “Infrared small target detection based on adjustable sensitivity strategy and multi-scale fusion”, Preprint, July 2024.
C. Yu, Y. Liu, J. Zhao, Z. Shi, "LR-Net: A Lightweight and Robust Network for Infrared Small Target Detection", Preprint, 2024.
Q. Liu, R. Liu, B. Zheng, H. Wang, Y. Fu, “Infrared Small Target Detection with Scale and Location Sensitivity”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2024, pages 490-499, 2024.
X. Chen, J. Li, T. Gao, Y. Piao, H. Ji, B. Yang, W. Xu, "Dynamic Context-Aware Pyramid Network for Infrared Small Target Detection”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Volume 17, pages 13780-13794, 2024.
D. Zang, W. Su, B. Zhang, H. Liu, "DCANet: Dense Convolutional Attention Network for infrared small target detection", Measurement, 2024.
I. Lee, C. Park, "Hybrid Network based on Hierarchical Multipatch Feature Encoder for Infrared Small Target Detection”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2024.
X. Peng, C. Qiu, W. Yang Y. Liu, Z. Zhang, “PAU2-Net: local and global interaction for infrared small target detection”, Remote Sensing Letters, 2024.
Y. Huang, X. Zhi, J. Hu, L. Yu, Q. Han, W. Chen, "LMAFormer: Local Motion Aware Transformer for Small Moving Infrared Target Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 62, pages 1-17, 2024.
N. Kumar, P. Chib, P. Singh, “STNet: Small Target Detection Network for IR Imagery”, ICPR 2024, 2024.
S. Wu, C. Xiao, Y. Wang, J. Yang, W. An, "Sparsity-Aware Global Channel Pruning for Infrared Small-target Detection Networks", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025.
C. Liu, X. Song, D. Yu, L. Qiu, F. Xie, Y. Zi, "Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Prior Guided Dense Nested Network”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025.
Y. Luo, X. Li, S. Chen, "Spatial-Temporal Aware-based Unsupervised Network for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025.
N. Li, X. Yang, H. Zhao, “DBMSTN: A Dual Branch Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Network for Dim-Small Target Detection In Infrared Image”, Pattern Recognition, 2025.
F. Zhang, H. Hu, B. Zou, M. Luo, “M4Net: Multi-Level Multi-Patch Multi-Receptive Multi-Dimensional Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection”, Neural Networks, 2025.
Y. Luo, X. Li, S. Chen, "Spatial-Temporal Aware-based Unsupervised Network for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2025.
Q. Ma, X. Li, S. Wang, J. Zhai, X. Zhao, H. Hu, "OIPF: An Orthogonal Inputs Perception Fusion Framework for Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2025.
S. Peng, L. Ji, S. Chen, W. Duan, S. Zhu, "Temporal Segmentation Modeling with Sample Augmentation for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection", Preprint, 2025.
R. Ni, J. Wu, Z. Qiu, L. Chen, C. Luo, F. Huang, "Point-to-Point Regression: Accurate Infrared Small Target Detection with Single-Point Annotation", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025.
C. Hu, Y. Huang, K. Li, L. Zhang, C. Long, Y. Zhu, "DATransNet: Dynamic Attention Transformer Network for Infrared Small Target Detection”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 2025.
H. Li, J. Yang, R. Wang, Y. Xu, "ILNet: Low-Level Matters for Salient Infrared Small Target Detection", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2025.
S. Zhu, L. Ji, S. Chen, W. Duan, “Spatial–Temporal-Channel Collaborative Feature Learning with Transformers For Infrared Small Target Detection”, Image and Vision Computing, 2025.
S. Peng, L. Ji, S. Chen, W. Duan, S. Zhu, “Moving Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection by Mixed Spatio-Temporal Encoding”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
W Chi, J Liu, X Lu, Y Ni, X Wang, “A Contrast-Invariant Feature Extraction Framework for Single-Domain Generalization In Infrared Small Target Detection”, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025.
S. Liu, B. Qiao, S. Li, Y. Wang, L. Dang, "Patch Spatial Attention Networks for Semantic Token Transformer in Infrared Small Target Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025.
B. Li, P. Rao, Y. Su, X. Chen, “HMCNet: A Hybrid Mamba–CNN UNet for Infrared Small Target Detection”, Remote Sensing, 2025.
Y. Zhu, Y. Ma, F. Fan, J. Huang, Y. Yao, X. Zhou, "Toward Robust Infrared Small Target Detection via Frequency and Spatial Feature Fusion," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 63, pages 1-15, 2025.
Y. Wang, X. Wang, S. Qiu, X. Chen, Z. Liu, C. Zhou, W. Yao, “Multi-Scale Hierarchical Feature Fusion for Infrared Small-Target Detection”, Remote Sensing, 2025.
B. Xiao, W. Zhou, T. Wang, Q. Zhang, B. Peng, “Infrared Small Target Detection via Contrast-Enhanced Dual-Branch Network”, Digital Signal Processing, 2025.
Y. Yang, Y. Xie, J. Cao, K. Yang, Attention-Guided Dual Feature Extraction Approach for Small Target Detection in Infrared Images”, The Visual Computer, 2025.
J. Lu, X. Zhang, “Lightweight visual Mamba-Guided Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection”, Journal of Electronic Imaging, 2025.
M. Zhang, X. Li, F. Gao, J. Guo, “IRMamba: Pixel Difference Mamba with Layer Restoration for Infrared Small Target Detection”, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025.
S. Zhuang, J. Peng, M. Qi, D. Wang, K. Li, Y. Liu, “A Temporal-Semantic Interaction Network for Multi-Frame Infrared Small Target Detection”, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2025.
Y. Liu, B. Li, T. Liu, Z. Lin, W. An, “RRCANet: Recurrent Reusable-Convolution Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection”, Preprint, June 2025.
D. Chen, F. Qin, R. Ge, Y. Peng, C. Wang, “ID-UNet: A Densely Connected UNet Architecture for Infrared Small Target Segmentation”, Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2025.
H. Li, X. Peng, J. Zhang, “FSCNet: Feature Synthesis with Wavelet Coefficients for Infrared Small Target Detection”, Infrared Physics and Technology, 2025.
M. Xu, C. Yu, Z. Li, H. Tang, Y. Hu, L. Nie, "HDNet: A Hybrid Domain Network With Multiscale High-Frequency Information Enhancement for Infrared Small-Target Detection”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 63, pages 1-15, 2025.
Large Language Models (3 papers)
M. Zhang, X. Li, F. Gao, J. Guo, X. Gao, J. Zhang, “SAIST: Segment Any Infrared Small Target Model Guided by Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining”, CVPR 205, June 2025.
M. Zhang, Q. Xu, Y. Wang, X. Li, H. Yuan, “MIRSAM: Multimodal Vision-Language Segment Anything Model For Infrared Small Target Detection”, Visual Intelligence, 2025.
F. Huang, S. Zheng, Z. Qiu, H. Liu, H. Bai, “Text-IRSTD: Leveraging Semantic Text to Promote Infrared Small Target Detection in Complex Scenes”, Preprint, 2025.