Denoising-Enhanced Coarse-to-Fine Infrared Small Target Detection with Attention Prior-Guided Knowledge Distillation

Houzhang Fang, Ruixuan Huang, Qiuhuan Chen +3

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) in high-resolution images is crucial for many practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based…