Attention-Guided Pyramid Context Networks for Detecting Infrared Small Target Under Complex Background

• Published in: IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 1 - 13
• Main Authors: Zhang, Tianfang, Li, Lei, Cao, Siying, Pu, Tian, Peng, Zhenming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.08.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Context; Context module; Correlation; Feature extraction; Feature fusion; Fuses; Infrared small targets; Modules; Neural networks; Object detection; Pyramid context network; Semantics; Target detection; Task analysis

Infrared small target detection techniques remain a challenging task due to the complex background. To overcome this problem, by exploring context information, this research presents a data-driven approach called Attention-Guided Pyramid Context Network (AGPCNet). Specifically, we design Attention-G...