FBI-Net: Frequency Band Integration Network for Infrared Small Target Segmentation

Small targets in infrared imagery exhibit challenging characteristics due to their minimal semantic information and the extremely imbalanced distribution between the targets and the background. In this paper, we propose a frequency band integration network to extract salient features of infrared small targets in both the spatial and frequency domains. To excavate the high-frequency features of the small targets, we propose a frequency decoupling-fusion module. To decrease the semantic loss that occurs in deep networks, we propose a semantic injection mechanism to assist in retaining critical information from shallow layers. Experimental results show that our proposed method reaches higher prediction accuracy and robustness in the infrared small target segmentation task compared with other state-of-the-art approaches.