Deformable Feature Alignment and Refinement for Moving Infrared Dim-small Target Detection

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Main Authors: Luo, Dengyan, Xiang, Yanping, Wang, Hu, Ji, Luping, Li, Shuai, Ye, Mao
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author Luo, Dengyan
Xiang, Yanping
Wang, Hu
Ji, Luping
Li, Shuai
Ye, Mao
author_facet Luo, Dengyan
Xiang, Yanping
Wang, Hu
Ji, Luping
Li, Shuai
Ye, Mao
contents The detection of moving infrared dim-small targets has been a challenging and prevalent research topic. The current state-of-the-art methods are mainly based on ConvLSTM to aggregate information from adjacent frames to facilitate the detection of the current frame. However, these methods implicitly utilize motion information only in the training stage and fail to explicitly explore motion compensation, resulting in poor performance in the case of a video sequence including large motion. In this paper, we propose a Deformable Feature Alignment and Refinement (DFAR) method based on deformable convolution to explicitly use motion context in both the training and inference stages. Specifically, a Temporal Deformable Alignment (TDA) module based on the designed Dilated Convolution Attention Fusion (DCAF) block is developed to explicitly align the adjacent frames with the current frame at the feature level. Then, the feature refinement module adaptively fuses the aligned features and further aggregates useful spatio-temporal information by means of the proposed Attention-guided Deformable Fusion (AGDF) block. In addition, to improve the alignment of adjacent frames with the current frame, we extend the traditional loss function by introducing a new motion compensation loss. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DFAR method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on two benchmark datasets including DAUB and IRDST.
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spellingShingle Deformable Feature Alignment and Refinement for Moving Infrared Dim-small Target Detection
Luo, Dengyan
Xiang, Yanping
Wang, Hu
Ji, Luping
Li, Shuai
Ye, Mao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The detection of moving infrared dim-small targets has been a challenging and prevalent research topic. The current state-of-the-art methods are mainly based on ConvLSTM to aggregate information from adjacent frames to facilitate the detection of the current frame. However, these methods implicitly utilize motion information only in the training stage and fail to explicitly explore motion compensation, resulting in poor performance in the case of a video sequence including large motion. In this paper, we propose a Deformable Feature Alignment and Refinement (DFAR) method based on deformable convolution to explicitly use motion context in both the training and inference stages. Specifically, a Temporal Deformable Alignment (TDA) module based on the designed Dilated Convolution Attention Fusion (DCAF) block is developed to explicitly align the adjacent frames with the current frame at the feature level. Then, the feature refinement module adaptively fuses the aligned features and further aggregates useful spatio-temporal information by means of the proposed Attention-guided Deformable Fusion (AGDF) block. In addition, to improve the alignment of adjacent frames with the current frame, we extend the traditional loss function by introducing a new motion compensation loss. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed DFAR method achieves the state-of-the-art performance on two benchmark datasets including DAUB and IRDST.
title Deformable Feature Alignment and Refinement for Moving Infrared Dim-small Target Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07289