A robust directional saliency-based method for infrared small-target detection under various complex backgrounds

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 495-499

  Qi, Shengxiang ^a   Ma, Jie ^a   Tao, Chao ^b   Yang, Changcai ^a   Tian, Jinwen ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Infrared image; saliency detection; target detection; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND CLUTTER; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; HUMAN EYE; INFRARED IMAGES; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; SALIENCY DETECTION; SALIENT REGIONS; SMALL TARGETS; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; VISUAL ATTENTION; VISUAL EFFECTS;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; TARGET TRACKING;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 84870536500     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2211094     Document Type: Article

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