Infrared(IR) small target detection plays a critical role in the Infrared Search And Track (IRST) system. Although it has been studied for years, there are some difficulties remained to the clutter environment. According to the principle of human discrimination of small targets from a natural scene that there is a signature of discontinuity between the object and its neighboring regions, we develop an efficient method for infrared small target detection called multiscale centersurround contrast measure (MCSCM). First, to determine the maximum neighboring window size, an entropy-based window selection technique is used. Then, we construct a novel multiscale center-surround contrast measure to calculate the saliency map. Compared with the original image, the MCSCM map has less background clutters and noise residual. Subsequently, a simple threshold is used to segment the target. Experimental results show our method achieves better performance.
Infrared small target detection is one of the vital techniques in infrared search and track surveillance systems. An efficient method based on target-background separation via local morphological component analysis (MCA) sparse representation is proposed in this paper. This method converts infrared small target detection problem over entire image into target-background separation over image patches according to the different morphological component between target and background. An adaptive dictionary is trained adaptively by K-singular value decomposition (K-SVD) according to infrared image, and then the dictionary is subdivided by a total-variation-like activity measure into two categories: the target component dictionary explaining target signal and background component dictionary embedding background. Finally, the interest target can be easily extracted through threshold segmentation in target component image constructed by target dictionary. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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