Sequential Detection of Flying Small Target in Infrared Images Based on Generalized Low-Rank Background Estimation

Abstract

Addressing the problems of flying small target detection in infrared image sequences, a new approach is proposed based on generalized low-rank background estimation. Firstly, the generalized low rank approximations is introduced to model infrared background image over sequential infrared images. Subsequently, the foreground target image is achieved by background subtraction with the generalized low-rank background estimation. Finally, flying small target detection is achieved over separated target image by threshold segmentation. The experiment results on two infrared image sequences of flying plane demonstrate that the proposed method have effective detection performance and outperform the baseline methods in precision and recall evaluation.