Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Spiral Gradient Optimization Estimation and High-Order Correlation Enhancement

Abstract

In order to reduce the influence of strong halo effect on dim small target detection in daytime, a dim small target detection algorithm based on spiral gradient optimization estimation and high-order correlation enhancement is proposed in this paper. In this paper, we first design a spiral motion model to obtain the local gradient information in the central image point by perturbing the designed motion direction, then estimate the optimal background by establishing a gradient optimization model to achieve background suppression while effectively removing the halo phenomenon. Considering the original high-order correlation model only uses a single pixel for motion correlation, there is insufficient information utilization, an improved high-order correlation energy enhancement model is proposed to enhance the target signal, the algorithm first constructs an attention discrimination model based on inner and outer windows to obtain the salient region of the image, and then carries out multi frame high-order motion correlation of neighborhood blocks to enhance the target energy. After experiments, it is shown that compared with the traditional algorithm, the algorithm proposed in this paper can effectively weaken the halo effect while suppressing most of the background and can effectively enhance the local signal-to-noise ratio of the target.INDEX TERMS Dim and small target detection; Background suppression; Spiral gradient; High order correlation; Energy enhancement.