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Interior Attention-Aware Network for Infrared Small Target Detection
Kewei Wang, Shuaiyuan Du, Chengxin Liu, Zhiguo Cao
Infrared small target detection plays an important role in target warning, ground monitoring, and flight guidance. Existing methods typically utilize local-contrast information of each pixel to detect infrared small targets, neglecting the interior relation between target pixels or background pixels. The mere use of the local information of one pixel, however, is not sufficient for accurate detection, which may lead to missing detection and false alarms. As a harmonious whole, information between pixels are necessary to determine if a pixel belongs to the target or the background. Motivated by the fact that pixels from targets or backgrounds are correlated to each other, we propose a coarse-to-fine interior attention-aware network (IAANet) for infrared small target detection. Specifically, a region proposal network (RPN) is first applied to obtain coarse target regions and filter out backgrounds. Then, we leverage a transformer encoder to model the attention between pixels in coarse target regions, outputting attention-aware features. Finally, predictions are obtained by feeding attention-aware features to a classification head. Extensive experiments show that our approach is capable of detecting targets precisely, of suppressing a variety of false alarm sources, and works effectively in various background environments and target appearances. We show that our IAANet outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Code will be made available at: https://github.com/kwwcv/iaanet.
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