Selective Variable Convolution Meets Dynamic Content-Guided Attention for Infrared Small Target Detection
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| author | Chen, Yirui Zhu, Yiming Jing, Yuxin Zhang, Tianpei Zhao, Jufeng |
| author_facet | Chen, Yirui Zhu, Yiming Jing, Yuxin Zhang, Tianpei Zhao, Jufeng |
| contents | Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) system aims to identify small targets in complex backgrounds. Due to the convolution operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), applying traditional CNNs to IRSTD presents challenges, since the feature extraction of small targets is often insufficient, resulting in the loss of critical features. To address these issues, we propose a dynamic content-guided attention multiscale feature aggregation network (DCGANet), which adheres to the attention principle of 'coarse-to-fine' and achieves high detection accuracy. First, we propose a selective variable convolution (SVC) module that integrates the benefits of standard convolution, irregular deformable convolution, and multi-rate dilated convolution. This module is designed to expand the receptive field and enhance non-local features, thereby effectively improving the discrimination between targets and backgrounds. Second, the core component of DCGANet is a two-stage content-guided attention module. This module employs a two-stage attention mechanism to initially direct the network's focus to salient regions within the feature maps and subsequently determine whether these regions correspond to targets or background interference. By retaining the most significant responses, this mechanism effectively suppresses false alarms. Additionally, we propose an Adaptive Dynamic Feature Fusion (ADFF) module to substitute for static feature cascading. This dynamic feature fusion strategy enables DCGANet to adaptively integrate contextual features, thereby enhancing its ability to discriminate true targets from false alarms. DCGANet has achieved new benchmarks across multiple datasets. |
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| spellingShingle | Selective Variable Convolution Meets Dynamic Content-Guided Attention for Infrared Small Target Detection Chen, Yirui Zhu, Yiming Jing, Yuxin Zhang, Tianpei Zhao, Jufeng Image and Video Processing Infrared Small Target Detection (IRSTD) system aims to identify small targets in complex backgrounds. Due to the convolution operation in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), applying traditional CNNs to IRSTD presents challenges, since the feature extraction of small targets is often insufficient, resulting in the loss of critical features. To address these issues, we propose a dynamic content-guided attention multiscale feature aggregation network (DCGANet), which adheres to the attention principle of 'coarse-to-fine' and achieves high detection accuracy. First, we propose a selective variable convolution (SVC) module that integrates the benefits of standard convolution, irregular deformable convolution, and multi-rate dilated convolution. This module is designed to expand the receptive field and enhance non-local features, thereby effectively improving the discrimination between targets and backgrounds. Second, the core component of DCGANet is a two-stage content-guided attention module. This module employs a two-stage attention mechanism to initially direct the network's focus to salient regions within the feature maps and subsequently determine whether these regions correspond to targets or background interference. By retaining the most significant responses, this mechanism effectively suppresses false alarms. Additionally, we propose an Adaptive Dynamic Feature Fusion (ADFF) module to substitute for static feature cascading. This dynamic feature fusion strategy enables DCGANet to adaptively integrate contextual features, thereby enhancing its ability to discriminate true targets from false alarms. DCGANet has achieved new benchmarks across multiple datasets. |
| title | Selective Variable Convolution Meets Dynamic Content-Guided Attention for Infrared Small Target Detection |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21612 |