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Unsupervised and Supervised Approaches for Infrared Small Target Detection : Overview, Challenges and Perspectives (Part 2)

Thierry Bouwmans, Anastasia Zakharova, Belmar Garcia, Marwa Chendeb El Rai, Meghna Kapoor, Badri Narayan Subudhi

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arXiv ID
2610.18291 v1
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Submitted
2026-10-13

Abstract

Since the rise of supervised deep learning modelet dets, researchers has attempt to solve infrared small targection using various models like conventional neural networks, GANS, Transformers, Mixture of Experts and recent graph/hypergraph neural networks. Moreover, these deep neural networks methods surpassed the traditional unsupervised models and the low-rank and sparse decomposition unsupervised models reviewed in "Traditional and Recent Approaches for Infrared Small Target Detection : Overview, Challenges and Perspectives (Part 1). In this context, the aim of this paper is to provide a complete survey of the deep learning models in infrared small target detection. First, we categorize the different approaches found in the literature in terms of the modeling models of strategies. Then, we have discussed them in terms of the critical situations that they claim to handle. Furthermore, we present the specific performance evaluation. Then, we conclude with several promising directions for future research.

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