SpirDet: Towards Efficient, Accurate and Lightweight Infrared Small Target Detector

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Main Authors: Mao, Qianchen, Li, Qiang, Wang, Bingshu, Zhang, Yongjun, Dai, Tao, Chen, C. L. Philip
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author Mao, Qianchen
Li, Qiang
Wang, Bingshu
Zhang, Yongjun
Dai, Tao
Chen, C. L. Philip
author_facet Mao, Qianchen
Li, Qiang
Wang, Bingshu
Zhang, Yongjun
Dai, Tao
Chen, C. L. Philip
contents In recent years, the detection of infrared small targets using deep learning methods has garnered substantial attention due to notable advancements. To improve the detection capability of small targets, these methods commonly maintain a pathway that preserves high-resolution features of sparse and tiny targets. However, it can result in redundant and expensive computations. To tackle this challenge, we propose SpirDet, a novel approach for efficient detection of infrared small targets. Specifically, to cope with the computational redundancy issue, we employ a new dual-branch sparse decoder to restore the feature map. Firstly, the fast branch directly predicts a sparse map indicating potential small target locations (occupying only 0.5\% area of the map). Secondly, the slow branch conducts fine-grained adjustments at the positions indicated by the sparse map. Additionally, we design an lightweight DO-RepEncoder based on reparameterization with the Downsampling Orthogonality, which can effectively reduce memory consumption and inference latency. Extensive experiments show that the proposed SpirDet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models while achieving faster inference speed and fewer parameters. For example, on the IRSTD-1K dataset, SpirDet improves $MIoU$ by 4.7 and has a $7\times$ $FPS$ acceleration compared to the previous state-of-the-art model. The code will be open to the public.
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spellingShingle SpirDet: Towards Efficient, Accurate and Lightweight Infrared Small Target Detector
Mao, Qianchen
Li, Qiang
Wang, Bingshu
Zhang, Yongjun
Dai, Tao
Chen, C. L. Philip
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In recent years, the detection of infrared small targets using deep learning methods has garnered substantial attention due to notable advancements. To improve the detection capability of small targets, these methods commonly maintain a pathway that preserves high-resolution features of sparse and tiny targets. However, it can result in redundant and expensive computations. To tackle this challenge, we propose SpirDet, a novel approach for efficient detection of infrared small targets. Specifically, to cope with the computational redundancy issue, we employ a new dual-branch sparse decoder to restore the feature map. Firstly, the fast branch directly predicts a sparse map indicating potential small target locations (occupying only 0.5\% area of the map). Secondly, the slow branch conducts fine-grained adjustments at the positions indicated by the sparse map. Additionally, we design an lightweight DO-RepEncoder based on reparameterization with the Downsampling Orthogonality, which can effectively reduce memory consumption and inference latency. Extensive experiments show that the proposed SpirDet significantly outperforms state-of-the-art models while achieving faster inference speed and fewer parameters. For example, on the IRSTD-1K dataset, SpirDet improves $MIoU$ by 4.7 and has a $7\times$ $FPS$ acceleration compared to the previous state-of-the-art model. The code will be open to the public.
title SpirDet: Towards Efficient, Accurate and Lightweight Infrared Small Target Detector
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05410