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Infrared Target Detection Methodologies

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Xiaoyi Dong
University of Science and Technology of China
2
Xinyu Jia
Hebei University of Technology
3
Qingyun Fang
Nanjing University
4
Seyed Mojtaba Marvasti-Zadeh
University of Alberta
5
Tianfang Zhang
Tsinghua University
6
Linfeng Tang
Wuhan University
7
Yuanhao Cai
Northwest University
8
Xuan Kong
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
9
Xinyi Ying
National University of Defense Technology
10
Dongyu Rao
Jiangnan University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Structure-Aware Sparse-View X-Ray 3D Reconstruction
Unknown Journal|2024
57 cit.
2
Visible-Thermal Tiny Object Detection: A Benchmark Dataset and Baselines
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
42 cit.
3
DRMF: Degradation-Robust Multi-Modal Image Fusion via Composable Diffusion Prior
Unknown Journal|2024
31 cit.
4
C2RF: Bridging Multi-modal Image Registration and Fusion via Commonality Mining and Contrastive Learning
International Journal of Computer Vision|2025
31 cit.
5
Infrared Small Target Detection in Satellite Videos: A New Dataset and a Novel Recurrent Feature Refinement Framework
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2025
22 cit.
6
Data features-based Bayesian learning for time-domain model updating and robust predictions in structural dynamics
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing|2024
19 cit.
7
Hierarchical Bayesian modeling for uncertainty quantification and reliability updating using data
Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering|2025
13 cit.
8
Mask-DiFuser: A Masked Diffusion Model for Unified Unsupervised Image Fusion
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2025
13 cit.
9
Analytical hierarchical Bayesian modeling framework for model updating and uncertainty propagation utilizing frequency response function data
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering|2025
6 cit.
10
Training-Based Model Refinement and Representation Disagreement for Semi-Supervised Object Detection
Unknown Journal|2024
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
R. Furgoni
Fondazione Roma
2
Yulan Guo
Sun Yat-sen University
3
Ahmed A. Ewees
Damietta University
4
Yu Fang
Huaqiao University
5
Linlin Zhao
Zhoukou Normal University
6
Zihan Ni
Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine
7
Tongzhen Si
University of Jinan
8
Qiang Gu
Guizhou University
9
Qingsong Fan
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
10
Xingxing Wei
Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Dense Nested Attention Network for Infrared Small Target Detection
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing|2022
867 cit.
2
DATFuse: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion via Dual Attention Transformer
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology|2023
483 cit.
3
A Modified YOLOv8 Detection Network for UAV Aerial Image Recognition
Drones|2023
401 cit.
4
MTU-Net: Multilevel TransUNet for Space-Based Infrared Tiny Ship Detection
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2023
208 cit.
5
HBO-LSTM: Optimized long short term memory with heap-based optimizer for wind power forecasting
Energy Conversion and Management|2022
167 cit.
6
C²Former: Calibrated and Complementary Transformer for RGB-Infrared Object Detection
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing|2024
136 cit.
7
Improving RGB-infrared object detection with cascade alignment-guided transformer
Information Fusion|2024
128 cit.
8
LUD-YOLO: A novel lightweight object detection network for unmanned aerial vehicle
Information Sciences|2024
123 cit.
9
Adversarial Sticker: A Stealthy Attack Method in the Physical World
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2022
112 cit.
10
Hybrid Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia|2022
110 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Ming–Hsuan Yang
University of California, Merced
2
Yui Man Lui
Wind Power Engineering (Japan)
3
Zhenming Peng
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
4
Junwei Han
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
5
Yong Ma
Wuhan University
6
Xinyi Yu
Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology
7
Eric R. Fossum
Dartmouth College
8
Xavier Maldague
Université Laval
9
Jiayi Ma
Wuhan University
10
Chang Li
Hunan University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Online Object Tracking: A Benchmark
Unknown Journal|2013
4.1k cit.
2
Restormer: Efficient Transformer for High-Resolution Image Restoration
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)|2022
3.5k cit.
3
Object Tracking Benchmark
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence|2015
3.5k cit.
4
Visual object tracking using adaptive correlation filters
Unknown Journal|2010
3.3k cit.
5
Incremental Learning for Robust Visual Tracking
International Journal of Computer Vision|2007
3.1k cit.
6
Saliency Detection via Graph-Based Manifold Ranking
Unknown Journal|2013
2.5k cit.
7
FusionGAN: A generative adversarial network for infrared and visible image fusion
Information Fusion|2018
2.1k cit.
8
Object detection in optical remote sensing images: A survey and a new benchmark
ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing|2019
2.1k cit.
9
Hierarchical Convolutional Features for Visual Tracking
Unknown Journal|2015
1.9k cit.
10
Adaptive multiple-band CFAR detection of an optical pattern with unknown spectral distribution
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing|1990
1.8k cit.

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