The invention discloses an
infrared weak and
small target detection method based on space-time joint local contrast, and relates to the field of
infrared image processing and weak and
small target detection. The method comprises the following steps: S1, constructing a sliding window with the size of 3*3, traversing a kth frame of image of an original sequence image, and obtaining a spatial domainlocal contrast response graph of the kth frame of image through
spatial domain filtering; S2, calculating a variance value St of a continuous frame image, and obtaining a
time domain local contrast response graph of the kth frame of image through
time domain filtering in combination with variance value images of three adjacent frames of images; and S3, performing normalization
processing on the
time domain detection result and the space domain detection result, and combining the time domain detection result and the space domain detection result in a multiplicative fusion mode to obtain a space-time joint local contrast response of the kth frame of image. According to the method, spatial information and
time information are fully utilized, the problems of low
infrared weak and small targetdetection precision, scene robustness and the like caused by an existing method are solved, the
detection performance and the low
false alarm rate in infrared weak and
small target detection under a complex background are improved, and the robustness of an
algorithm is improved.