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Bio-Inspired Small Target Motion Detection With Spatio-Temporal Feedback in Natural Scenes

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posted on 2024-02-13, 16:06 authored by H Wang, Z Zhong, F Lei, J Peng, S Yue

Small moving objects at far distance always occupy only one or a few pixels in image and exhibit extremely limited visual features, which bring great challenges to motion detection. Highly evolved visual systems endow flying insects with remarkable ability to pursue tiny mates and prey, providing a good template to develop image processing method for small target motion detection. The insects' excellent sensitivity to small moving objects is believed to come from a class of specific neurons called small target motion detectors (STMDs). However, existing STMD-based methods often experience performance degradation when coping with complex natural scenes. In this paper, we propose a bio-inspired visual system with spatio-temporal feedback mechanism (called Spatio-Temporal Feedback STMD) to suppress false positive background movement while enhancing system responses to small targets. Specifically, the proposed visual system is composed of two complementary subnetworks and a feedback loop. The first subnetwork is designed to extract spatial and temporal movement patterns of cluttered background by neuronal ensemble coding. The second subnetwork is developed to capture small target motion information where its output and signal from the first subnetwork are integrated together via the feedback loop to filter out background false positives in a recurrent manner. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed spatio-temporal feedback visual system is more competitive than existing methods in discriminating small moving targets from complex natural environments.

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Author affiliation

College of Science & Engineering/Comp' & Math' Sciences

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Published in

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volume

33

Pagination

451 - 465

Publisher

IEEE

issn

1057-7149

eissn

1941-0042

Copyright date

2023

Available date

2024-02-13

Spatial coverage

United States

Language

eng

Deposited by

Professor Shigang Yue

Deposit date

2024-02-12

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