Research Article

Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Density Peak Search and Local Features

Table 1

Evaluation table of the detection results of the proposed method and other four detection algorithms.

MethodCloud background imagesBuilding background imagesSky–sea background imagesGround and cloud background imagesBuilding and cloud background images
SCRGBSFSCRGBSFSCRGBSFSCRGBSFSCRGBSF

MPCM51.260.86416.980.8740.931.2338.8718.6818.681.24
AAGD290.8313.220.7918.146.1225.658.4456.8956.8915.36
LIG228.377.1625.779.1333.6113.9630.3818.8318.8316.94
TLLCM165.4562.3443.36304.4744.46399.790.98284.23284.23354.8
Ours647.33350.879.26216.777.69438.2278.6381.6381.6283.5

The bold indicates the best values of SCRG and BSF detected by the comparison methods in different backgrounds.