arxivcs.CV2026-07-21
Gaze-DETR: Top-Down Guidance Through Priority Maps for Infrared Weak-Small UAV Detection with DETR
Nian Liu, Yuxin Yang, Shubo Lin, Sikui Zhang, Liang Li, Boyu Cai, et al.
Infrared small target detection (ISTD) remains challenging because tiny, low-contrast targets are easily overwhelmed by clutter, noise, or occlusion. Conventional single-frame and multi-frame detectors rely on bounding-box supervision, which specifies final target locations but o…