Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 4, 218(2025)

Infrared small target detection based on density peaks searching and weighted multi-feature local difference

Bin JI, Pengxiang FAN, Mengli WANG, Yang LIU, and Jiafeng XU
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JI Bin, FAN Pengxiang, WANG Mengli, LIU Yang, XU Jiafeng. Infrared small target detection based on density peaks searching and weighted multi-feature local difference[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2025, 21(4): 218

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Received: Jan. 26, 2024

Accepted: Feb. 28, 2025

Published Online: Feb. 28, 2025

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DOI:10.1007/s11801-025-4029-5

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