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Contextualized Small Target Detection Network for Small Target Goat Face Detection

  • Yaxin Wang,
  • Ding Han,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Ying Guo and
  • Hongwei Du

20 July 2023

With the advancement of deep learning technology, the importance of utilizing deep learning for livestock management is becoming increasingly evident. goat face detection provides a foundation for goat recognition and management. In this study, we pr...

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  • Open Access
379 Views
18 Pages

YOLO-DSNet for Small Target Detection

  • Haokun Xu,
  • Huangleshuai He,
  • Qike Zhi,
  • Zhengyi Yang and
  • Bocheng Han

2 February 2026

Small target detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications is often plagued by inherent challenges such as small object sizes, sparse information, and complex background interference. Traditional detection algorithms and existing YOLO serie...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,604 Views
25 Pages

Infrared Dim Small Target Detection Networks: A Review

  • Yongbo Cheng,
  • Xuefeng Lai,
  • Yucheng Xia and
  • Jinmei Zhou

15 June 2024

In recent years, with the rapid development of deep learning and its outstanding capabilities in target detection, innovative methods have been introduced for infrared dim small target detection. This review comprehensively summarizes public datasets...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,013 Views
16 Pages

17 December 2019

Although infrared small target detection has been broadly used in airborne early warning, infrared guidance, surveillance and tracking, it is still an open issue due to the low signal-to-noise ratio, less texture information, background clutters, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,486 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2025

Due to the inherent limitations of detection networks and the imbalance in training data, small-target detection has always been a challenging issue in the field of target detection. To address the issues of false positives and missed detections in s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,774 Views
26 Pages

Precision Detection of Infrared Small Target in Ground-to-Air Scene

  • Xiaona Dong,
  • Huilin Jiang,
  • Yansong Song and
  • Keyan Dong

13 November 2024

Reliable infrared small target detection plays an important role in infrared search and track systems. In recent years, most target detection methods usually use the statistical features of a rectangular window to represent the contrast between the t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,946 Views
12 Pages

Dual Enhancement Network for Infrared Small Target Detection

  • Xinyi Wu,
  • Xudong Hu,
  • Huaizheng Lu,
  • Chaopeng Li,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Weifang Huang

13 May 2024

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) is crucial for applications in security surveillance, unmanned aerial vehicle identification, military reconnaissance, and other fields. However, small targets often suffer from resolution limitations, backgrou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,661 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2017

In this paper, a novel infrared target co-detection model combining the self-correlation features of backgrounds and the commonality features of targets in the spatio-temporal domain is proposed to detect small targets in a sequence of infrared image...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,861 Views
14 Pages

Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Ruiyun Chen,
  • Zhonghua Liu,
  • Weihua Ou and
  • Kaibing Zhang

23 October 2024

Small targets exist in large numbers in various fields. They are broadly used in aerospace, video monitoring, and industrial detection. However, because of its tiny dimensions and modest resolution, the precision of small-target detection is low, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,712 Views
24 Pages

Small Target Radiometric Performance of Drone-Based Hyperspectral Imaging Systems

  • David N. Conran,
  • Emmett J. Ientilucci,
  • Timothy D. Bauch and
  • Nina G. Raqueno

27 May 2024

Hyperspectral imaging systems frequently rely on spectral rather than spatial resolving power for identifying objects within a scene. A hyperspectral imaging system’s response to point targets under flight conditions provides a novel technique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,497 Views
23 Pages

Visual Detail Augmented Mapping for Small Aerial Target Detection

  • Jing Li,
  • Yanran Dai,
  • Congcong Li,
  • Junqi Shu,
  • Dongdong Li,
  • Tao Yang and
  • Zhaoyang Lu

21 December 2018

Moving target detection plays a primary and pivotal role in avionics visual analysis, which aims to completely and accurately detect moving objects from complex backgrounds. However, due to the relatively small sizes of targets in aerial video, many...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,357 Views
16 Pages

Small-Target Detection Based on an Attention Mechanism for Apron-Monitoring Systems

  • Hao Liu,
  • Meng Ding,
  • Shuai Li,
  • Yubin Xu,
  • Shuli Gong and
  • Abdul Nasser Kasule

22 April 2023

Small-target detection suffers from the problems of low average precision and difficulties detecting targets from airport-surface surveillance videos. To address this challenge, this study proposes a small-target detection model based on an attention...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
745 Views
23 Pages

Small-Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv11n

  • Ke Zeng,
  • Wangsheng Yu,
  • Xianxiang Qin and
  • Siyu Long

22 December 2025

Target detection in UAV aerial photography scenarios faces challenges of small targets and complex backgrounds. Thus, we proposed an improved YOLOv11n small-target detection algorithm. First, a detection head is added to the 160 × 160 resolutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
10,851 Views
13 Pages

KPE-YOLOv5: An Improved Small Target Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOv5

  • Rujin Yang,
  • Wenfa Li,
  • Xinna Shang,
  • Deping Zhu and
  • Xunyu Man

At present, the existing methods have many limitations in small target detection, such as low accuracy, a high rate of false detection, and missed detection. This paper proposes the KPE-YOLOv5 algorithm aiming to improve the ability of small target d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,783 Views
15 Pages

YOLOv3_ReSAM: A Small-Target Detection Method

  • Bailin Liu,
  • Huan Luo,
  • Haotong Wang and
  • Shaoxu Wang

Small targets in long-distance aerial photography have the problems of small size and blurry appearance, and traditional object detection algorithms face great challenges in the field of small-object detection. With the collection of massive data in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,906 Views
20 Pages

Transmission Lines Small-Target Detection Algorithm Research Based on YOLOv5

  • Qiuyan Cheng,
  • Guowu Yuan,
  • Dong Chen,
  • Bangwu Xu,
  • Enbang Chen and
  • Hao Zhou

18 August 2023

The images captured using UAVs during inspection often contain a great deal of small targets related to transmission lines. These vulnerable elements are critical for ensuring the safe operation of these lines. However, due to various factors such as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,799 Views
17 Pages

BRA-YOLOv10: UAV Small Target Detection Based on YOLOv10

  • Quanyu Zhang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Heng Shi,
  • Kunhui Wang,
  • Yan Tian,
  • Zhaohui Xu,
  • Yongkang Zhang and
  • Gaoxiang Jia

21 February 2025

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) targets are typically small in size, occupy only a limited pixel area, and are often located in complex environments. Existing models, however, tend to overlook smaller targets in complex backgrounds, making it easy to m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,159 Views
18 Pages

Ships’ Small Target Detection Based on the CBAM-YOLOX Algorithm

  • Yuchao Wang,
  • Jingdong Li,
  • Zeming Chen and
  • Chenglong Wang

16 December 2022

In order to solve the problem of low accuracy of small target detection in traditional target detection algorithms, the YOLOX algorithm combined with Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) is proposed. The algorithm first uses CBAM on the shallo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,800 Views
20 Pages

Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Background Prediction

  • Jiankang Ma,
  • Haoran Guo,
  • Shenghui Rong,
  • Junjie Feng and
  • Bo He

27 July 2023

Infrared dim and small target detection is a key technology for various detection tasks. However, due to the lack of shape, texture, and other information, it is a challenging task to detect dim and small targets. Recently, since many traditional alg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,460 Views
21 Pages

An Investigation of Infrared Small Target Detection by Using the SPT–YOLO Technique

  • Yongjun Qi,
  • Shaohua Yang,
  • Zhengzheng Jia,
  • Yuanmeng Song,
  • Jie Zhu,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Hongxing Zheng

To detect and recognize small-size and submerged complex background targets in infrared images, we combine a dynamic receptive field fusion strategy and a multi-scale feature fusion mechanism to improve the detection performance of small targets sign...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,667 Views
18 Pages

An Infrared Small Target Detection Method Based on Attention Mechanism

  • Xiaotian Wang,
  • Ruitao Lu,
  • Haixia Bi and
  • Yuhai Li

20 October 2023

The human visual attention system plays an important role in infrared target recognition because it can quickly and accurately recognize infrared small targets and has good scene adaptability. This paper proposes an infrared small target detection me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,147 Views
16 Pages

Infrared Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Local–Global Feature Fusion

  • Xiao Ling,
  • Chuan Zhang,
  • Zhijun Yan,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Qinghong Sheng and
  • Jun Li

4 September 2024

Infrared detection, known for its robust anti-interference capabilities, performs well in all weather conditions and various environments. Its applications include precision guidance, surveillance, and early warning systems. However, detecting infrar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,407 Views
18 Pages

Multiscale YOLOv5-AFAM-Based Infrared Dim-Small-Target Detection

  • Yuexing Wang,
  • Liu Zhao,
  • Yixiang Ma,
  • Yuanyuan Shi and
  • Jinwen Tian

30 June 2023

Infrared detection plays an important role in the military, aerospace, and other fields, which has the advantages of all-weather, high stealth, and strong anti-interference. However, infrared dim-small-target detection suffers from complex background...

  • Article
  • Open Access
165 Citations
16,154 Views
14 Pages

20 April 2022

For the detection of small targets, fire-like and smoke-like targets in forest fire images, as well as fire detection under different natural lights, an improved Fire-YOLO deep learning algorithm is proposed. The Fire-YOLO detection model expands the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
380 Views
15 Pages

Maritime Small Target Image Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv11n

  • Zhaohua Liu,
  • Yanli Sun,
  • Pengfei He,
  • Ningbo Liu and
  • Zhongxun Wang

26 December 2025

Aiming at the problems of small-sized ships (such as small patrol boats) in complex open-sea backgrounds, including small sizes, insufficient feature information, and high missed detection rates, this paper proposes a maritime small target image dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,558 Views
31 Pages

Semantic Segmentation of Small Target Diseases on Tobacco Leaves

  • Yanze Zou,
  • Zhenping Qiang,
  • Shuang Zhang and
  • Hong Lin

28 July 2025

The application of image recognition technology plays a vital role in agricultural disease identification. Existing approaches primarily rely on image classification, object detection, or semantic segmentation. However, a major challenge in current s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,224 Views
20 Pages

Residual Depth Feature-Extraction Network for Infrared Small-Target Detection

  • Lizhe Wang,
  • Yanmei Zhang,
  • Yanbing Xu,
  • Ruixin Yuan and
  • Shengyun Li

Deep-learning methods have exhibited exceptional performance in numerous target-detection domains, and their application is steadily expanding to include infrared small-target detection as well. However, the effect of existing deep-learning methods i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,040 Views
14 Pages

29 October 2022

The robust detection of small targets is one of the crucial techniques in an infrared system. It is still a challenge to detect small targets under complex backgrounds. Aiming at the problem where infrared small target detection is easily disturbed b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,147 Views
18 Pages

Weak Spatial Target Extraction Based on Small-Field Optical System

  • Xuguang Zhang,
  • Yunmeng Liu,
  • Huixian Duan and
  • E Zhang

11 July 2023

Compared to wide-field telescopes, small-field detection systems have higher spatial resolution, resulting in stronger detection capabilities and higher positioning accuracy. When detecting by small fields in synchronous orbit, both space debris and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,881 Views
20 Pages

16 March 2023

General target detection with deep learning has made tremendous strides in the past few years. However, small target detection sometimes is associated with insufficient sample size and difficulty in extracting complete feature information. For safety...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
5,539 Views
21 Pages

6 July 2022

Infrared small target detection occupies an important position in the infrared search and track system. The most common size of infrared images has developed to 640×512. The field-of-view (FOV) also increases significantly. As the result, there...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,350 Views
18 Pages

Lightweight Infrared Small Target Detection Method Based on Linear Transformer

  • Bingshu Wang,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Qianchen Mao,
  • Jingzhuo Cao,
  • Han Zhang and
  • Laixian Zhang

11 June 2025

With the flourish of deep learning, transformer models have achieved remarkable performance in dealing with many computer vision tasks. However, their applications in infrared small target detection is limited due to two factors: (1) the high computa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,120 Views
20 Pages

A Lightweight Small Target Detection Algorithm for UAV Platforms

  • Yanhui Lv,
  • Bo Tian,
  • Qichao Guo and
  • Deyu Zhang

24 December 2024

The targets in the aerial view of UAVs are small, scenes are complex, and background noise is strong. Additionally, the low computational capability of UAVs is challenged when trying to meet the requirements of large neural networks. Therefore, a lig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,830 Views
23 Pages

An Enhanced Image Patch Tensor Decomposition for Infrared Small Target Detection

  • Ziling Lu,
  • Zhenghua Huang,
  • Qiong Song,
  • Kun Bai and
  • Zhengtao Li

29 November 2022

Infrared small-target detection is a key technology for the infrared search and track system (IRST), but some problems still exist, such as false detections in complex backgrounds and clutter. To solve these problems, a novel image patch tensor (IPT)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,859 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Scale Hierarchical Feature Fusion for Infrared Small-Target Detection

  • Yue Wang,
  • Xinhong Wang,
  • Shi Qiu,
  • Xianghui Chen,
  • Zhaoyan Liu,
  • Chuncheng Zhou,
  • Weiyuan Yao,
  • Hongjia Cheng,
  • Yu Zhang and
  • Zhan Shu
  • + 1 author

27 January 2025

Detecting small targets in infrared images presents significant challenges due to their tiny size and complex backgrounds, making this task a hotspot for research. Traditional methods rely on assumption-based modeling and manual design, struggling to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,930 Views
20 Pages

29 January 2025

Using infrared technology to accurately detect small weak targets is crucial in various fields, such as reconnaissance and security. However, the infrared detection of small weak targets is challenged by complex backgrounds, tiny target sizes, and lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,479 Views
17 Pages

24 February 2023

It is a big challenge to detect and track small infrared marine targets in non-stationary and time-varying sea clutter because the signal is too strong to be estimated. Based on the phenomenon that sea clutter spreads not only in the temporal domain...

  • Article
  • Open Access
237 Views
16 Pages

A Gradient-Compensated Feature Learning Network for Infrared Small Target Detection

  • Yanwei Wang,
  • Haitao Zhang,
  • Xiangyue Zhang and
  • Xinhao Zheng

19 February 2026

Infrared small target detection under complex backgrounds remains challenging due to the extremely small target size and low contrast with the surrounding background. These factors make contour information difficult to extract and often cause target...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,288 Views
26 Pages

Small-Target Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8 for Infrared Imagery

  • Huicong Wang,
  • Kaijun Ma,
  • Juan Yue,
  • Yuhan Li,
  • Jiaxin Huang,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Linhan Li,
  • Xiaoyu Wang,
  • Nengbin Cai and
  • Sili Gao

27 February 2025

Infrared small-target detection plays a crucial role in applications such as public safety monitoring. However, it faces significant challenges due to the loss of target features, which weakens detection performance. To tackle this problem, this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,779 Views
11 Pages

In infrared (IR) guidance and target tracking systems, dim target intensity and complex background clutter are some of the typical challenges, especially for the accurate detection of small objects. In this article, we propose a novel IR target detec...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,144 Views
13 Pages

At present, rice is generally in a state of dense adhesion and small granular volume during processing, resulting in no effective semantic segmentation method for rice to extract complete rice. Aiming at the above problems, this paper designs a small...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,706 Views
17 Pages

12 May 2024

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) infrared detection has problems such as weak and small targets, complex backgrounds, and poor real-time detection performance. It is difficult for general target detection algorithms to achieve the requirements of a high...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,982 Views
20 Pages

Multiscale Feature Extraction U-Net for Infrared Dim- and Small-Target Detection

  • Xiaozhen Wang,
  • Chengshan Han,
  • Jiaqi Li,
  • Ting Nie,
  • Mingxuan Li,
  • Xiaofeng Wang and
  • Liang Huang

9 February 2024

The technology of infrared dim- and small-target detection is irreplaceable in many fields, such as those of missile early warning systems and forest fire prevention, among others. However, numerous components interfere with infrared imaging, present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,203 Views
24 Pages

10 October 2024

In the intricate and dynamic infrared imaging environment, the detection of infrared dim and small targets becomes notably challenging due to their feeble radiation intensity, intricate background noise, and high interference characteristics. To tack...

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  • Open Access
87 Citations
6,058 Views
22 Pages

AFFPN: Attention Fusion Feature Pyramid Network for Small Infrared Target Detection

  • Zhen Zuo,
  • Xiaozhong Tong,
  • Junyu Wei,
  • Shaojing Su,
  • Peng Wu,
  • Runze Guo and
  • Bei Sun

15 July 2022

The detection of small infrared targets lacking texture and shape information in the presence of complex background clutter is a challenge that has attracted considerable research attention in recent years. Typical deep learning-based target detectio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,889 Views
25 Pages

8 November 2022

Robust and efficient detection of small infrared target is a critical and challenging task in infrared search and tracking applications. The size of the small infrared targets is relatively tiny compared to the ordinary targets, and the sizes and app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,073 Views
21 Pages

DCE-Net: An Improved Method for Sonar Small-Target Detection Based on YOLOv8

  • Lijun Cao,
  • Zhiyuan Ma,
  • Qiuyue Hu,
  • Zhongya Xia and
  • Meng Zhao

Sonar is the primary tool used for detecting small targets at long distances underwater. Due to the influence of the underwater environment and imaging mechanisms, sonar images face challenges such as a small number of target pixels, insufficient dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
161 Views
24 Pages

6 March 2026

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) aims to extract weak small targets from complex backgrounds, and has significant practical application value in safety-critical fields such as traffic monitoring and maritime search and rescue. However, due to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
5,201 Views
13 Pages

Infrared Image Small-Target Detection Based on Improved FCOS and Spatio-Temporal Features

  • Shengbo Yao,
  • Qiuyu Zhu,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Wennan Cui and
  • Peimin Yan

The research of infrared image small-target detection is of great significance to security monitoring, satellite remote sensing, infrared early warning, and precision guidance systems. However, small infrared targets occupy few pixels and lack color...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,438 Views
17 Pages

Dual-Domain Prior-Driven Deep Network for Infrared Small-Target Detection

  • Yutong Hao,
  • Yunpeng Liu,
  • Jinmiao Zhao and
  • Chuang Yu

31 July 2023

In recent years, data-driven deep networks have demonstrated remarkable detection performance for infrared small targets. However, continuously increasing the depth of neural networks to enhance performance has proven impractical. Consequently, the i...

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