Pinwheel-shaped Convolution and Scale-based Dynamic Loss for Infrared Small Target Detection

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Main Authors: Yang, Jiangnan, Liu, Shuangli, Wu, Jingjun, Su, Xinyu, Hai, Nan, Huang, Xueli
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author Yang, Jiangnan
Liu, Shuangli
Wu, Jingjun
Su, Xinyu
Hai, Nan
Huang, Xueli
author_facet Yang, Jiangnan
Liu, Shuangli
Wu, Jingjun
Su, Xinyu
Hai, Nan
Huang, Xueli
contents These recent years have witnessed that convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for detecting infrared small targets have achieved outstanding performance. However, these methods typically employ standard convolutions, neglecting to consider the spatial characteristics of the pixel distribution of infrared small targets. Therefore, we propose a novel pinwheel-shaped convolution (PConv) as a replacement for standard convolutions in the lower layers of the backbone network. PConv better aligns with the pixel Gaussian spatial distribution of dim small targets, enhances feature extraction, significantly increases the receptive field, and introduces only a minimal increase in parameters. Additionally, while recent loss functions combine scale and location losses, they do not adequately account for the varying sensitivity of these losses across different target scales, limiting detection performance on dim-small targets. To overcome this, we propose a scale-based dynamic (SD) Loss that dynamically adjusts the influence of scale and location losses based on target size, improving the network's ability to detect targets of varying scales. We construct a new benchmark, SIRST-UAVB, which is the largest and most challenging dataset to date for real-shot single-frame infrared small target detection. Lastly, by integrating PConv and SD Loss into the latest small target detection algorithms, we achieved significant performance improvements on IRSTD-1K and our SIRST-UAVB dataset, validating the effectiveness and generalizability of our approach. Code -- https://github.com/JN-Yang/PConv-SDloss-Data
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spellingShingle Pinwheel-shaped Convolution and Scale-based Dynamic Loss for Infrared Small Target Detection
Yang, Jiangnan
Liu, Shuangli
Wu, Jingjun
Su, Xinyu
Hai, Nan
Huang, Xueli
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
These recent years have witnessed that convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods for detecting infrared small targets have achieved outstanding performance. However, these methods typically employ standard convolutions, neglecting to consider the spatial characteristics of the pixel distribution of infrared small targets. Therefore, we propose a novel pinwheel-shaped convolution (PConv) as a replacement for standard convolutions in the lower layers of the backbone network. PConv better aligns with the pixel Gaussian spatial distribution of dim small targets, enhances feature extraction, significantly increases the receptive field, and introduces only a minimal increase in parameters. Additionally, while recent loss functions combine scale and location losses, they do not adequately account for the varying sensitivity of these losses across different target scales, limiting detection performance on dim-small targets. To overcome this, we propose a scale-based dynamic (SD) Loss that dynamically adjusts the influence of scale and location losses based on target size, improving the network's ability to detect targets of varying scales. We construct a new benchmark, SIRST-UAVB, which is the largest and most challenging dataset to date for real-shot single-frame infrared small target detection. Lastly, by integrating PConv and SD Loss into the latest small target detection algorithms, we achieved significant performance improvements on IRSTD-1K and our SIRST-UAVB dataset, validating the effectiveness and generalizability of our approach. Code -- https://github.com/JN-Yang/PConv-SDloss-Data
title Pinwheel-shaped Convolution and Scale-based Dynamic Loss for Infrared Small Target Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16986