Light-weight infrared small target detection combining cross-scale feature fusion with bottleneck attention module
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College of electronic science and technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

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TP753

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (61972435, 61401474, 61921001, 62001478)

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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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LIN Zai-Ping, LI Bo-Yang, LI Miao, WANG Long-Guang, WU Tian-Hao, LUO Yi-Hang, XIAO Chao, LI Ruo-Jing, An Wei. 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):1102~1112

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  • Received:June 13,2022
  • Revised:November 17,2022
  • Adopted:August 08,2022
  • Online: November 15,2022
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