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[bibtex]@InProceedings{Dai_2021_WACV, author = {Dai, Yimian and Wu, Yiquan and Zhou, Fei and Barnard, Kobus}, title = {Asymmetric Contextual Modulation for Infrared Small Target Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)}, month = {January}, year = {2021}, pages = {950-959} }
Asymmetric Contextual Modulation for Infrared Small Target Detection
Abstract
Single-frame infrared small target detection remains a challenge not only due to the scarcity of intrinsic target characteristics but also because of lacking a public dataset. In this paper, we first contribute an open dataset with high-quality annotations to advance the research in this field. We also propose an asymmetric contextual modulation module specially designed for detecting infrared small targets. To better highlight small targets, besides a top-down global contextual feedback, we supplement a bottom-up modulation pathway based on point-wise channel attention for exchanging high-level semantics and subtle low-level details. We report ablation studies and comparisons to state-of-the-art methods, where we find that our approach performs significantly better. Our dataset and code are available online.
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