提出RDANet网络,提升红外小目标检测在不同尺度和背景下的稳定性。
RDANet: Relative Degradation Aware Network for Infrared Small Target Detection

- 设计多尺度抗混叠下采样模块,保留目标形状信息
- 引入原型引导跳跃记忆,稳定不同场景的局部对比度
- 在三个公开数据集上性能领先,对尺度与背景变化更鲁棒
红外小目标检测在遥感图像中仍具挑战性,因目标极小、局部对比度弱,常嵌入复杂多变的背景中。现有方法在目标尺度变化或场景背景改变时表现不稳定,表明其在特征下采样中难以同时保持目标结构并维持判别性局部对比度。为此,本文提出相对退化感知网络(RDANet),包含两个模块:多尺度抗混叠下采样(MSAD)与原型引导跳跃记忆(PGSM)。MSAD通过多尺度抗混叠滤波与像素折叠聚合,降低分辨率缩减时的混叠效应,更好地保留目标形状,抑制无关背景响应。PGSM从共享内存中检索块级原型,并自适应融合至当前表征,增强跳跃特征,帮助在多样场景下保持稳定的局部对比度线索。在三个公开基准上的实验表明,RDANet在多数评估指标上表现最佳,分层评估显示其在不同目标尺寸和场景复杂度下具有更稳定的检测行为。代码已开源。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Infrared small target detection is still challenging in remote sensing imagery, because the targets are extremely small, exhibit weak local contrast, and are often embedded in complex and highly variable backgrounds. In addition to these inherent difficulties, we observe that existing detectors often show unstable performance when the target scale changes or when the scene background varies. This scale- and scene-sensitive degradation indicates that current methods are insufficient in simultaneously preserving target structure during feature downsampling and maintaining discriminative local contrast under background shifts, which finally results in unbalanced detection performance across different conditions. To improve detection robustness, this paper proposes a Relative Degradation Aware Network (RDANet) for infrared small target detection. RDANet consists of two dedicated modules: Multi-Scale Anti-Alias Downsampling (MSAD) and Prototype-Guided Skip Memory (PGSM). MSAD introduces multi-scale anti-alias filtering together with pixel-fold aggregation to reduce aliasing effects during resolution reduction, so that target shape information can be better preserved while irrelevant background responses are suppressed. PGSM further enhances the skip features by retrieving patch-level prototypes from a shared memory and adaptively integrating them into the current representation, which helps maintain stable local contrast cues under diverse scene backgrounds. Experiments on three public benchmarks show that RDANet achieves the best performance on most evaluation metrics, while scale- and background-stratified evaluations indicate more stable behavior across target sizes and scene complexity. The code is available at https://github.com/BIT-RuiLiu/RDANet.
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