Implicit Optical Flow-Guided Network for Infrared Small-Target Tracking (opens in new tab)

Infrared small-target tracking (ISTT) holds significant practical value in both military and civilian applications. Currently, some studies achieve ISTT by using optical flow-based methods. However, existing optical flow methods typically rely on pixel-level motion estimation or use flow maps as auxiliary network input and struggle to apply flow fields directly for bounding box localization, which further degrades tracking stability. Furthermore, in low signal-to-noise ratio infrared sequence...