Moving point target detection based on clutter suppression using spatiotemporal local increment coding

A point target detection method based on clutter suppression is proposed to detect moving point targets in infrared (IR) image sequences. First, an algorithm with spatiotemporal local increment coding is proposed to estimate the clutter background. Then the target is detected by suppressing the estimated clutter background. During the spatiotemporal coding process, both inter-frame and intra-frame properties of the IR image sequence are taken into account. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.