Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Volume. 41, Issue 6, 1102(2022)

Light-weight infrared small target detection combining cross-scale feature fusion with bottleneck attention module

Zai-Ping LIN*, Bo-Yang LI, Miao LI, Long-Guang WANG, Tian-Hao WU, Yi-Hang LUO, Chao XIAO, Ruo-Jing LI, and Wei An
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  • College of electronic science and technology,National University of Defense Technology,Changsha 410073,China
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    This paper proposed a light-weight single frame infrared small target detection network that combined cross-scale feature fusion and bottleneck attention module. Instead of bringing extra huge neurons, the network directly performs cross-scale feature interaction between the encoding and decoding sub-networks, maintain the response of small target in the deep CNN layers, and thus achieves the full fusion between the spatial structure features from shallow layers and high-level semantic features from deep layers. Based on cross-scale feature fusion module, a light-weight bottleneck attention module is introduced to further enhance the response the target feature in the deep layers of the network. Experimental results demonstrate that the network can effectively suppress the complex background clutter and achieve high performance of infrared small target detection with low amount of parameters.

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    Zai-Ping LIN, Bo-Yang LI, Miao LI, Long-Guang WANG, Tian-Hao WU, Yi-Hang LUO, Chao XIAO, Ruo-Jing LI, Wei An. Light-weight infrared small target detection combining cross-scale feature fusion with bottleneck attention module[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 2022, 41(6): 1102

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jun. 13, 2022

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Feb. 6, 2023

    The Author Email: Zai-Ping LIN (linzaiping@sina.com)

    DOI:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2022.06.020

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