Affiliation:
1. State Key Laboratory of Laser Interaction with Matter, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
Abstract
In the infrared small target images with complex backgrounds, there exist various interferences that share similar characteristics with the target (such as building edges). The accurate detection of small targets is crucial in applications involving infrared search and tracking. However, traditional detection methods based on small target feature detection in a single frame image may result in higher error rates due to insufficient features. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an infrared moving object detection method that integrates spatio-temporal information. To address the limitations of single-frame detection, we introduce a temporal sequence of images to suppress false alarms caused by single-frame detection through analyzing motion features within the sequence. Firstly, based on spatial feature detection, we propose a multi-scale layered contrast feature (MLCF) filtering for preliminary target extraction. Secondly, we utilize the spatio-temporal context (STC) as a feature to track the image sequence point by point, obtaining global motion features. Statistical characteristics are calculated to obtain motion vector data that correspond to abnormal motion, enabling the accurate localization of moving targets. Finally, by combining spatial and temporal features, we determine the precise positions of the targets. The effectiveness of our method is evaluated using a real infrared dataset. Through analysis of the experimental results, our approach demonstrates stronger background suppression capabilities and lower false alarm rates compared to other existing methods. Moreover, our detection rate is similar or even superior to these algorithms, providing further evidence of the efficacy of our algorithm.
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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