“…Three-dimensional (3-D) filters provide a convenient mechanism for the integration of the spatial and temporal axes into a coherent framework and offer a wide range of design alternatives 9 finite impulse response (FIR) or infinite impulse response (IIR), recursive or non recursive, with nominal pass-bands of arbitrary shape (e.g. plane, beam, wedge/fan 9,10,11 , pyramid 12 , cone 13 , donut 14 , etc.). While these filters have proven to be very effective in novel imaging, audio/acoustic and radio-frequency applications 9 , they offer rapidly diminishing returns when they are applied to the problem of foreground enhancement and background cancellation in infrared sensors, because typical scenes of interest are highly non-stationary, due to object edges/boundaries for instance.…”