利用背景低秩特性提升微小目标检测,无需依赖运动线索或特定目标特征。
Beyond Motion Cues and Structural Sparsity: Revisiting Small Moving Target Detection
- 将检测任务重构成张量低秩与稀疏分解问题,利用背景自相似性建模
- 在红外与空间目标检测上达到最新最好性能,跨场景泛化能力强
- 适合复杂背景下微小目标识别,尤其适用于无运动线索的场景
微小移动目标检测对众多防御应用至关重要,但因信噪比低、视觉线索模糊及背景杂乱而极具挑战。本文提出一种新型深度学习框架,突破现有方法依赖目标特异性特征或运动线索的局限。核心洞察是微小目标检测与背景区分本质耦合,即使在杂乱视频背景中也常呈现强低秩结构,可作为稳定先验。我们将任务重新建模为基于张量的低秩与稀疏分解问题,并对背景、目标和噪声成分进行理论分析以指导模型设计。在此基础上,提出TenRPCANet:通过自注意力机制实现隐式多阶张量低秩约束,捕捉局部与非局部自相似性以建模背景,无需显式迭代优化;同时借鉴张量RPCA中稀疏分量更新思想,设计特征精炼模块增强目标显著性。该方法在两个差异显著且极具挑战的任务上表现优异:多帧红外微小目标检测与空间物体检测,验证了其有效性与通用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Small moving target detection is crucial for many defense applications but remains highly challenging due to low signal-to-noise ratios, ambiguous visual cues, and cluttered backgrounds. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning framework that differs fundamentally from existing approaches, which often rely on target-specific features or motion cues and tend to lack robustness in complex environments. Our key insight is that small target detection and background discrimination are inherently coupled, even cluttered video backgrounds often exhibit strong low-rank structures that can serve as stable priors for detection. We reformulate the task as a tensor-based low-rank and sparse decomposition problem and conduct a theoretical analysis of the background, target, and noise components to guide model design. Building on these insights, we introduce TenRPCANet, a deep neural network that requires minimal assumptions about target characteristics. Specifically, we propose a tokenization strategy that implicitly enforces multi-order tensor low-rank priors through a self-attention mechanism. This mechanism captures both local and non-local self-similarity to model the low-rank background without relying on explicit iterative optimization. In addition, inspired by the sparse component update in tensor RPCA, we design a feature refinement module to enhance target saliency. The proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on two highly distinct and challenging tasks: multi-frame infrared small target detection and space object detection. These results demonstrate both the effectiveness and the generalizability of our approach.
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