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Main Authors: Xu, Shibiao, Zheng, ShuChen, Xu, Wenhao, Xu, Rongtao, Wang, Changwei, Zhang, Jiguang, Teng, Xiaoqiang, Li, Ao, Guo, Li
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10778
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author Xu, Shibiao
Zheng, ShuChen
Xu, Wenhao
Xu, Rongtao
Wang, Changwei
Zhang, Jiguang
Teng, Xiaoqiang
Li, Ao
Guo, Li
author_facet Xu, Shibiao
Zheng, ShuChen
Xu, Wenhao
Xu, Rongtao
Wang, Changwei
Zhang, Jiguang
Teng, Xiaoqiang
Li, Ao
Guo, Li
contents Infrared small object detection is an important computer vision task involving the recognition and localization of tiny objects in infrared images, which usually contain only a few pixels. However, it encounters difficulties due to the diminutive size of the objects and the generally complex backgrounds in infrared images. In this paper, we propose a deep learning method, HCF-Net, that significantly improves infrared small object detection performance through multiple practical modules. Specifically, it includes the parallelized patch-aware attention (PPA) module, dimension-aware selective integration (DASI) module, and multi-dilated channel refiner (MDCR) module. The PPA module uses a multi-branch feature extraction strategy to capture feature information at different scales and levels. The DASI module enables adaptive channel selection and fusion. The MDCR module captures spatial features of different receptive field ranges through multiple depth-separable convolutional layers. Extensive experimental results on the SIRST infrared single-frame image dataset show that the proposed HCF-Net performs well, surpassing other traditional and deep learning models. Code is available at https://github.com/zhengshuchen/HCFNet.
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spellingShingle HCF-Net: Hierarchical Context Fusion Network for Infrared Small Object Detection
Xu, Shibiao
Zheng, ShuChen
Xu, Wenhao
Xu, Rongtao
Wang, Changwei
Zhang, Jiguang
Teng, Xiaoqiang
Li, Ao
Guo, Li
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Infrared small object detection is an important computer vision task involving the recognition and localization of tiny objects in infrared images, which usually contain only a few pixels. However, it encounters difficulties due to the diminutive size of the objects and the generally complex backgrounds in infrared images. In this paper, we propose a deep learning method, HCF-Net, that significantly improves infrared small object detection performance through multiple practical modules. Specifically, it includes the parallelized patch-aware attention (PPA) module, dimension-aware selective integration (DASI) module, and multi-dilated channel refiner (MDCR) module. The PPA module uses a multi-branch feature extraction strategy to capture feature information at different scales and levels. The DASI module enables adaptive channel selection and fusion. The MDCR module captures spatial features of different receptive field ranges through multiple depth-separable convolutional layers. Extensive experimental results on the SIRST infrared single-frame image dataset show that the proposed HCF-Net performs well, surpassing other traditional and deep learning models. Code is available at https://github.com/zhengshuchen/HCFNet.
title HCF-Net: Hierarchical Context Fusion Network for Infrared Small Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10778