Denoising-Enhanced Coarse-to-Fine Infrared Small Target Detection with Attention Prior-Guided Knowledge Distillation (opens in new tab)

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) in high-resolution images is crucial for many practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based ground monitoring. However, IRSTD remains challenging due to the small size and weak features of targets, as well as significant interference from complex dynamic backgrounds. Existing detection methods often suffer from redundant computations on non-target background ...