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EAAU-Net: Enhanced Asymmetric Attention U-Net for Infrared Small Target Detection
| Content Provider | MDPI |
|---|---|
| Author | Tong, Xiaozhong Sun, Bei Wei, Junyu Zuo, Zhen Su, Shaojing |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | Detecting infrared small targets lacking texture and shape information in cluttered environments is extremely challenging. With the development of deep learning, convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods have achieved promising results in generic object detection. However, existing CNN-based methods with pooling layers may lose the targets in the deep layers and, thus, cannot be directly applied for infrared small target detection. To overcome this problem, we propose an enhanced asymmetric attention (EAA) U-Net. Specifically, we present an efficient and powerful EAA module that uses both same-layer feature information exchange and cross-layer feature fusion to improve feature representation. In the proposed approach, spatial and channel information exchanges occur between the same layers to reinforce the primitive features of small targets, and a bottom-up global attention module focuses on cross-layer feature fusion to enable the dynamic weighted modulation of high-level features under the guidance of low-level features. The results of detailed ablation studies empirically validate the effectiveness of each component in the network architecture. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method achieved superior performance, with an intersection-over-union (IoU) of 0.771, normalised IoU (nIoU) of 0.746, and F-area of 0.681 on the publicly available SIRST dataset. |
| Starting Page | 3200 |
| e-ISSN | 20724292 |
| DOI | 10.3390/rs13163200 |
| Journal | Remote Sensing |
| Issue Number | 16 |
| Volume Number | 13 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Publisher Date | 2021-08-12 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Remote Sensing Imaging Science Infrared Small Target Detection Enhanced Asymmetric Attention Mechanism Feature Fusion U-net |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
