Many infrared dim small target detection models based on the low-rank and sparse decomposition (LRSD) achieve satisfactory performance. However, rank surrogate approximations in norm models frequently require complex singular value decomposition (SVD) iterations that are computationally expensive. Factorization models may occur performance degradation impacted by inappropriate rank selection. This paper aims to balance efficiency and accuracy through the factor group-sparse framework. Inspired by the factored factorization of Schatten p-norm, a bridge between the norm and factorization models is established. It enables the model to avoid complex SVD iterations and appropriate rank selection. Furthermore, this paper defines a multi-directional weighted L1 norm to characterize targets, which enhances the suppression of target-like sparse noise. Then, a proximal alternating minimization (PAM)-based optimization framework is used to solve the proposed model. Finally, comparative experiments on three public datasets demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms other state-of-the-art low-rank methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy.
Read full abstract