This paper presents a high-speed and robust dual-band infrared thermal camera based on an ARM CPU.The system consists of a low-resolution long-wavelength infrared detector,a digital temperature and humid⁃ity sensor,an...This paper presents a high-speed and robust dual-band infrared thermal camera based on an ARM CPU.The system consists of a low-resolution long-wavelength infrared detector,a digital temperature and humid⁃ity sensor,and a CMOS sensor.In view of the significant contrast between face and background in thermal infra⁃red images,this paper explores a suitable accuracy-latency tradeoff for thermal face detection and proposes a tiny,lightweight detector named YOLO-Fastest-IR.Four YOLO-Fastest-IR models(IR0 to IR3)with different scales are designed based on YOLO-Fastest.To train and evaluate these lightweight models,a multi-user low-resolution thermal face database(RGBT-MLTF)was collected,and the four networks were trained.Experiments demon⁃strate that the lightweight convolutional neural network performs well in thermal infrared face detection tasks.The proposed algorithm outperforms existing face detection methods in both positioning accuracy and speed,making it more suitable for deployment on mobile platforms or embedded devices.After obtaining the region of interest(ROI)in the infrared(IR)image,the RGB camera is guided by the thermal infrared face detection results to achieve fine positioning of the RGB face.Experimental results show that YOLO-Fastest-IR achieves a frame rate of 92.9 FPS on a Raspberry Pi 4B and successfully detects 97.4%of faces in the RGBT-MLTF test set.Ultimate⁃ly,an infrared temperature measurement system with low cost,strong robustness,and high real-time perfor⁃mance was integrated,achieving a temperature measurement accuracy of 0.3℃.展开更多
Aiming at the problem that infrared small target detection faces low contrast between the background and the target and insufficient noise suppression ability under the complex cloud background,an infrared small targe...Aiming at the problem that infrared small target detection faces low contrast between the background and the target and insufficient noise suppression ability under the complex cloud background,an infrared small target detection method based on the tensor nuclear norm and direction residual weighting was proposed.Based on converting the infrared image into an infrared patch tensor model,from the perspective of the low-rank nature of the background tensor,and taking advantage of the difference in contrast between the background and the target in different directions,we designed a double-neighborhood local contrast based on direction residual weighting method(DNLCDRW)combined with the partial sum of tensor nuclear norm(PSTNN)to achieve effective background suppression and recovery of infrared small targets.Experiments show that the algorithm is effective in suppressing the background and improving the detection ability of the target.展开更多
1.Introduction Infrared Imaging Missiles(IRIMs)are advanced weapons utilizing infrared technology for target detection and tracking.Their sensors capture thermal signatures and convert them into electronic images,enab...1.Introduction Infrared Imaging Missiles(IRIMs)are advanced weapons utilizing infrared technology for target detection and tracking.Their sensors capture thermal signatures and convert them into electronic images,enabling precise target identification and tracking.To a certain extent,the all-weather adaptability of IRIMs enables their effective operation across diverse environmental conditions,providing high targeting accuracy and cost efficiency.展开更多
Infrared(IR)spectroscopy,a technique within the realm of molecular vibrational spectroscopy,furnishes distinctive chemical signatures pivotal for both structural analysis and compound identification.A notable challeng...Infrared(IR)spectroscopy,a technique within the realm of molecular vibrational spectroscopy,furnishes distinctive chemical signatures pivotal for both structural analysis and compound identification.A notable challenge emerges from the misalignment between the mid-IR light wavelength range and molecular dimensions,culminating in a constrained absorption cross-section and diminished vibrational absorption coefficients(Supplementary data).展开更多
To address the issues of unknown target size,blurred edges,background interference and low contrast in infrared small target detection,this paper proposes a method based on density peaks searching and weighted multi-f...To address the issues of unknown target size,blurred edges,background interference and low contrast in infrared small target detection,this paper proposes a method based on density peaks searching and weighted multi-feature local difference.Firstly,an improved high-boost filter is used for preprocessing to eliminate background clutter and high-brightness interference,thereby increasing the probability of capturing real targets in the density peak search.Secondly,a triple-layer window is used to extract features from the area surrounding candidate targets,addressing the uncertainty of small target sizes.By calculating multi-feature local differences between the triple-layer windows,the problems of blurred target edges and low contrast are resolved.To balance the contribution of different features,intra-class distance is used to calculate weights,achieving weighted fusion of multi-feature local differences to obtain the weighted multi-feature local differences of candidate targets.The real targets are then extracted using the interquartile range.Experiments on datasets such as SIRST and IRSTD-IK show that the proposed method is suitable for various complex types and demonstrates good robustness and detection performance.展开更多
Aiming at the problems of low detection accuracy and large model size of existing object detection algorithms applied to complex road scenes,an improved you only look once version 8(YOLOv8)object detection algorithm f...Aiming at the problems of low detection accuracy and large model size of existing object detection algorithms applied to complex road scenes,an improved you only look once version 8(YOLOv8)object detection algorithm for infrared images,F-YOLOv8,is proposed.First,a spatial-to-depth network replaces the traditional backbone network's strided convolution or pooling layer.At the same time,it combines with the channel attention mechanism so that the neural network focuses on the channels with large weight values to better extract low-resolution image feature information;then an improved feature pyramid network of lightweight bidirectional feature pyramid network(L-BiFPN)is proposed,which can efficiently fuse features of different scales.In addition,a loss function of insertion of union based on the minimum point distance(MPDIoU)is introduced for bounding box regression,which obtains faster convergence speed and more accurate regression results.Experimental results on the FLIR dataset show that the improved algorithm can accurately detect infrared road targets in real time with 3%and 2.2%enhancement in mean average precision at 50%IoU(mAP50)and mean average precision at 50%—95%IoU(mAP50-95),respectively,and 38.1%,37.3%and 16.9%reduction in the number of model parameters,the model weight,and floating-point operations per second(FLOPs),respectively.To further demonstrate the detection capability of the improved algorithm,it is tested on the public dataset PASCAL VOC,and the results show that F-YOLO has excellent generalized detection performance.展开更多
The water curtain spray system of the ship helps reduce surface thermal load and lowers thermal infrared radiation, notably enhancing the stealth and survivability of naval ships. The performance of the water curtain ...The water curtain spray system of the ship helps reduce surface thermal load and lowers thermal infrared radiation, notably enhancing the stealth and survivability of naval ships. The performance of the water curtain spray system is largely influenced by the density of the nozzles and their installation height. Therefore, a test platform was established to investigate these critical influencing factors, employing an orthogonal design methodology for the experimental study. Specifically, the study evaluated the effects of varying distances to the steel plate target and different injection heights on the cooling performance of the system. Results demonstrate that using one nozzle per 4 square meters of the ship's surface area effectively lowers the surface temperature, bringing it closer to the ambient background temperature. This nozzle configuration creates irregular infrared heat patterns, which complicate the task for infrared detectors to discern the ship's outline, thus enhancing its infrared stealth. Additionally, maintaining the nozzle installation height within 0.6 m to prevent the temperature difference between the steel plate and the background temperature from exceeding 4 K. Moreover, as the infrared imaging distance increases from 3 to 9 m, the temperature difference measured by the thermocouple and the infrared imager increases by 141.27%. Furthermore, with the increase in infrared imaging distance, the infrared temperature of the target steel plate approaches the background temperature, indicating improved detectability. These findings have significantly enhanced the stealth capabilities of naval ships, maximizing their immunity to infrared-guided weapon attacks. Moreover, their importance in improving the survivability of ships on the water surface cannot be underestimated.展开更多
Infrared optoelectronic sensing is the core of many critical applications such as night vision,health and medication,military,space exploration,etc.Further including mechanical flexibility as a new dimension enables n...Infrared optoelectronic sensing is the core of many critical applications such as night vision,health and medication,military,space exploration,etc.Further including mechanical flexibility as a new dimension enables novel features of adaptability and conformability,promising for developing next-generation optoelectronic sensory applications toward reduced size,weight,price,power consumption,and enhanced performance(SWaP^(3)).However,in this emerging research frontier,challenges persist in simultaneously achieving high infrared response and good mechanical deformability in devices and integrated systems.Therefore,we perform a comprehensive review of the design strategies and insights of flexible infrared optoelectronic sensors,including the fundamentals of infrared photodetectors,selection of materials and device architectures,fabrication techniques and design strategies,and the discussion of architectural and functional integration towards applications in wearable optoelectronics and advanced image sensing.Finally,this article offers insights into future directions to practically realize the ultra-high performance and smart sensors enabled by infrared-sensitive materials,covering challenges in materials development and device micro-/nanofabrication.Benchmarks for scaling these techniques across fabrication,performance,and integration are presented,alongside perspectives on potential applications in medication and health,biomimetic vision,and neuromorphic sensory systems,etc.展开更多
Traditional stealth materials do not fulfill the requirements of high absorption for radar waves and low emissivity for infrared waves.Furthermore,they can be detected by various technologies,considerably threatening ...Traditional stealth materials do not fulfill the requirements of high absorption for radar waves and low emissivity for infrared waves.Furthermore,they can be detected by various technologies,considerably threatening weapon safety.Therefore,a stealth material compatible with radar and infrared was designed based on the photonic bandgap characteristics of photonic crystals.The radar stealth lay-er(bottom layer)is a composite of carbonyl iron/silicon dioxide/epoxy resin,and the infrared stealth layer(top layer)is a 1D photonic crystal with alternately and periodically stacked germanium and silicon nitride.Through composition optimization and structural adjust-ment,the effective absorption bandwidth of the compatible stealth material with a reflection loss of less than-10 dB has reached 4.95 GHz.The average infrared emissivity of the proposed design is 0.1063,indicating good stealth performance.The theoretical analysis proves that photonic crystals with this structural design can produce infrared waves within the photonic bandgap,achieving high radar wave transmittance and low infrared emissivity.Infrared stealth is achieved without affecting the absorption performance of the radar stealth layer,and the conflict between radar and infrared stealth performance is resolved.This work aims to promote the application of photonic crystals in compatible stealth materials and the development of stealth technology and to provide a design and theoretical found-ation for related experiments and research.展开更多
As modern communication and detection technologies advance at a swift pace,multifunctional electromagnetic interference(EMI)shielding materials with active/positive infrared stealth,hydrophobicity,and electric-thermal...As modern communication and detection technologies advance at a swift pace,multifunctional electromagnetic interference(EMI)shielding materials with active/positive infrared stealth,hydrophobicity,and electric-thermal conversion ability have received extensive attention.Meeting the aforesaid requirements simultaneously remains a huge challenge.In this research,the melamine foam(MF)/polypyrrole(PPy)nanowire arrays(MF@PPy)were fabricated via one-step electrochemical polymerization.The hierarchical MF@PPy foam was composed of three-dimensional PPy micro-skeleton and ordered PPy nanowire arrays.Due to the upwardly grown PPy nanowire arrays,the MF@PPy foam possessed good hydrophobicity ability with a water contact angle of 142.00°and outstanding stability under various harsh environments.Meanwhile,the MF@PPy foam showed excellent thermal insulation property on account of the low thermal conductivity and elongated ligament characteristic of PPy nanowire arrays.Furthermore,taking advantage of the high conductivity(128.2 S m^(-1)),the MF@PPy foam exhibited rapid Joule heating under 3 V,resulting in dynamic infrared stealth and thermal camouflage effects.More importantly,the MF@PPy foam exhibited remarkable EMI shielding effectiveness values of 55.77 dB and 19,928.57 dB cm^(2)g^(-1).Strong EMI shielding was put down to the hierarchically porous PPy structure,which offered outstanding impedance matching,conduction loss,and multiple attenuations.This innovative approach provides significant insights to the development of advanced multifunctional EMI shielding foams by constructing PPy nanowire arrays,showing great applications in both military and civilian fields.展开更多
Potential high-temperature risks exist in heat-prone components of electric moped charging devices,such as sockets,interfaces,and controllers.Traditional detection methods have limitations in terms of real-time perfor...Potential high-temperature risks exist in heat-prone components of electric moped charging devices,such as sockets,interfaces,and controllers.Traditional detection methods have limitations in terms of real-time performance and monitoring scope.To address this,a temperature detection method based on infrared image processing has been proposed:utilizing the median filtering algorithm to denoise the original infrared image,then applying an image segmentation algorithm to divide the image.展开更多
In response to the scarcity of infrared aircraft samples and the tendency of traditional deep learning to overfit,a few-shot infrared aircraft classification method based on cross-correlation networks is proposed.This...In response to the scarcity of infrared aircraft samples and the tendency of traditional deep learning to overfit,a few-shot infrared aircraft classification method based on cross-correlation networks is proposed.This method combines two core modules:a simple parameter-free self-attention and cross-attention.By analyzing the self-correlation and cross-correlation between support images and query images,it achieves effective classification of infrared aircraft under few-shot conditions.The proposed cross-correlation network integrates these two modules and is trained in an end-to-end manner.The simple parameter-free self-attention is responsible for extracting the internal structure of the image while the cross-attention can calculate the cross-correlation between images further extracting and fusing the features between images.Compared with existing few-shot infrared target classification models,this model focuses on the geometric structure and thermal texture information of infrared images by modeling the semantic relevance between the features of the support set and query set,thus better attending to the target objects.Experimental results show that this method outperforms existing infrared aircraft classification methods in various classification tasks,with the highest classification accuracy improvement exceeding 3%.In addition,ablation experiments and comparative experiments also prove the effectiveness of the method.展开更多
The fusion of infrared and visible images should emphasize the salient targets in the infrared image while preserving the textural details of the visible images.To meet these requirements,an autoencoder-based method f...The fusion of infrared and visible images should emphasize the salient targets in the infrared image while preserving the textural details of the visible images.To meet these requirements,an autoencoder-based method for infrared and visible image fusion is proposed.The encoder designed according to the optimization objective consists of a base encoder and a detail encoder,which is used to extract low-frequency and high-frequency information from the image.This extraction may lead to some information not being captured,so a compensation encoder is proposed to supplement the missing information.Multi-scale decomposition is also employed to extract image features more comprehensively.The decoder combines low-frequency,high-frequency and supplementary information to obtain multi-scale features.Subsequently,the attention strategy and fusion module are introduced to perform multi-scale fusion for image reconstruction.Experimental results on three datasets show that the fused images generated by this network effectively retain salient targets while being more consistent with human visual perception.展开更多
This article proposes a three-dimensional light field reconstruction method based on neural radiation field(NeRF)called Infrared NeRF for low resolution thermal infrared scenes.Based on the characteristics of the low ...This article proposes a three-dimensional light field reconstruction method based on neural radiation field(NeRF)called Infrared NeRF for low resolution thermal infrared scenes.Based on the characteristics of the low resolution thermal infrared imaging,various optimizations have been carried out to improve the speed and accuracy of thermal infrared 3D reconstruction.Firstly,inspired by Boltzmann's law of thermal radiation,distance is incorporated into the NeRF model for the first time,resulting in a nonlinear propagation of a single ray and a more accurate description of the physical property that infrared radiation intensity decreases with increasing distance.Secondly,in terms of improving inference speed,based on the phenomenon of high and low frequency distribution of foreground and background in infrared images,a multi ray non-uniform light synthesis strategy is proposed to make the model pay more attention to foreground objects in the scene,reduce the distribution of light in the background,and significantly reduce training time without reducing accuracy.In addition,compared to visible light scenes,infrared images only have a single channel,so fewer network parameters are required.Experiments using the same training data and data filtering method showed that,compared to the original NeRF,the improved network achieved an average improvement of 13.8%and 4.62%in PSNR and SSIM,respectively,while an average decreases of 46%in LPIPS.And thanks to the optimization of network layers and data filtering methods,training only takes about 25%of the original method's time to achieve convergence.Finally,for scenes with weak backgrounds,this article improves the inference speed of the model by 4-6 times compared to the original NeRF by limiting the query interval of the model.展开更多
The accuracy of spot centroid positioning has a significant impact on the tracking accuracy of the system and the stability of the laser link construction.In satellite laser communication systems,the use of short-wave...The accuracy of spot centroid positioning has a significant impact on the tracking accuracy of the system and the stability of the laser link construction.In satellite laser communication systems,the use of short-wave infrared wavelengths as beacon light can reduce atmospheric absorption and signal attenuation.However,there are strong non-uniformity and blind pixels in the short-wave infrared image,which makes the image distorted and leads to the decrease of spot centroid positioning accuracy.Therefore,the high-precision localization of the spot centroid of the short-wave infrared images is of great research significance.A high-precision spot centroid positioning model for short-wave infrared is proposed to correct for non-uniformity and blind pixels in short-wave infrared images and quantify the localization errors caused by the two,further model-based localization error simulations are performed,and a novel spot centroid positioning payload for satellite laser communications has been designed using the latest 640×512 planar array InGaAs shortwave infrared detector.The experimental results show that the non-uniformity of the corrected image is reduced from 7%to 0.6%,the blind pixels rejection rate reaches 100%,the frame rate can be up to 2000 Hz,and the spot centroid localization accuracy is as high as 0.1 pixel point,which realizes high-precision spot centroid localization of high-frame-frequency short-wave infrared images.展开更多
The Infrared Hyperspectral Atmospheric SounderⅡ(HIRAS-Ⅱ)is the key equipment on FengYun-3E(FY-3E)satellite,which can realize vertical atmospheric detection,featuring hyper spectral,high sensitivity and high precisio...The Infrared Hyperspectral Atmospheric SounderⅡ(HIRAS-Ⅱ)is the key equipment on FengYun-3E(FY-3E)satellite,which can realize vertical atmospheric detection,featuring hyper spectral,high sensitivity and high precision.To ensure its accuracy of detection,it is necessary to correlate their thermal models to in-orbit da⁃ta.In this work,an investigation of intelligent correlation method named Intelligent Correlation Platform for Ther⁃mal Model(ICP-TM)was established,the advanced Kriging surrogate model and efficient adaptive region opti⁃mization algorithm were introduced.After the correlation with this method for FY-3E/HIRAS-Ⅱ,the results indi⁃cate that compared with the data in orbit,the error of the thermal model has decreased from 5 K to within±1 K in cold case(10℃).Then,the correlated model is validated in hot case(20℃),and the correlated model exhibits good universality.This correlation precision is also much superiors to the general ones like 3 K in other similar lit⁃erature.Furthermore,the process is finished in 8 days using ICP-TM,the efficiency is much better than 3 months based on manual.The results show that the proposed approach significantly enhances the accuracy and efficiency of thermal model,this contributes to the precise thermal control of subsequent infrared optical payloads.展开更多
In order to meet the urgent need of infrared search and track applications for accurate identification and positioning of infrared guidance aircraft,an active-detection mid-wave infrared search and track system(ADMWIR...In order to meet the urgent need of infrared search and track applications for accurate identification and positioning of infrared guidance aircraft,an active-detection mid-wave infrared search and track system(ADMWIRSTS)based on"cat-eye effect"was developed.The ADMWIRSTS mainly consists of both a light beam control subsystem and an infrared search and track subsystem.The light beam control subsystem uses an integrated opto-mechanical two-dimensional pointing mirror to realize the control function of the azimuth and pitch directions of the system,which can cover the whole airspace range of 360°×90°.The infrared search and track subsystem uses two mid-wave infrared cooled 640×512 focal plane detectors for co-aperture beam expanding,infrared and illumination laser beam combining,infrared search,and two-stage track opto-mechanical design.In this work,the system integration design and structural finite-element analysis were conducted,the search imaging and two-stage track imaging for external scenes were performed,and the active-detection technologies were experimentally verified in the laboratory.The experimental investigation results show that the system can realize the infrared search and track imaging,and the accurate identification and positioning of the mid-wave infrared guidance,or infrared detection system through the echo of the illumination laser.The aforementioned work has important technical significance and practical application value for the development of compactly-integrated high-precision infrared search and track,and laser suppression system,and has broad application prospects in the protection of equipment,assets and infrastructures.展开更多
In sub nanometer carbon nanotubes,water exhibits unique dynamic characteristics,and in the high-frequency region of the infrared spectrum,where the stretching vibrations of the internal oxygen-hydrogen(O-H)bonds are c...In sub nanometer carbon nanotubes,water exhibits unique dynamic characteristics,and in the high-frequency region of the infrared spectrum,where the stretching vibrations of the internal oxygen-hydrogen(O-H)bonds are closely related to the hydrogen bonds(H-bonds)network between water molecules.Therefore,it is crucial to analyze the relationship between these two aspects.In this paper,the infrared spectrum and motion characteristics of the stretching vibrations of the O-H bonds in one-dimensional confined water(1DCW)and bulk water(BW)in(6,6)single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWNT)are studied by molecular dynamics simulations.The results show that the stretching vibrations of the two O-H bonds in 1DCW exhibit different frequencies in the infrared spectrum,while the O-H bonds in BW display two identical main frequency peaks.Further analysis using the spring oscillator model reveals that the difference in the stretching amplitude of the O-H bonds is the main factor causing the change in vibration frequency,where an increase in stretching amplitude leads to a decrease in spring stiffness and,consequently,a lower vibration frequency.A more in-depth study found that the interaction of H-bonds between water molecules is the fundamental cause of the increased stretching amplitude and decreased vibration frequency of the O-H bonds.Finally,by analyzing the motion trajectory of the H atoms,the dynamic differences between 1DCW and BW are clearly revealed.These findings provide a new perspective for understanding the behavior of water molecules at the nanoscale and are of significant importance in advancing the development of infrared spectroscopy detection technology.展开更多
Using 2-dicyanomethylene-3-cyano-4,5,5-trimethyl-2,5-dihydrofuran(TCF)as a near-infrared fluorescent chromophore,we designed and synthesized a TCF-based fluorescent probe TCF-NS by introducing 2,4-dinitrophenyl ether ...Using 2-dicyanomethylene-3-cyano-4,5,5-trimethyl-2,5-dihydrofuran(TCF)as a near-infrared fluorescent chromophore,we designed and synthesized a TCF-based fluorescent probe TCF-NS by introducing 2,4-dinitrophenyl ether as the recognized site for H_(2)S.The probe TCF-NS displayed a rapid-response fluorescent against H_(2)S with high sensitivity and selection but had no significant fluorescence response to other biothiols.Furthermore,TCF-NS was applied to sense H_(2)S in living cells successfully with minimized cytotoxicity and a large Stokes shift.展开更多
This communication looks at the photo-oxidation of polythene and polypropylene plastic bottle tops that are placed on soil in a hot arid environment. The degree of oxidation of the plastic is monitored by FT-IR spectr...This communication looks at the photo-oxidation of polythene and polypropylene plastic bottle tops that are placed on soil in a hot arid environment. The degree of oxidation of the plastic is monitored by FT-IR spectroscopy. It is noted that while different bottle top types photo-oxidize at different rates, all show an appreciable level of oxidation after half a year of exposure to the environment. The oxidation leads to brittleness of the plastic, which leads to fissure formation in bottle tops of little thickness. This leads to fragmentation of the material upon impact, making plastic bottle tops an appreciable source of microplastics.展开更多
基金Supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2024300443)the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(BK20241224).
文摘This paper presents a high-speed and robust dual-band infrared thermal camera based on an ARM CPU.The system consists of a low-resolution long-wavelength infrared detector,a digital temperature and humid⁃ity sensor,and a CMOS sensor.In view of the significant contrast between face and background in thermal infra⁃red images,this paper explores a suitable accuracy-latency tradeoff for thermal face detection and proposes a tiny,lightweight detector named YOLO-Fastest-IR.Four YOLO-Fastest-IR models(IR0 to IR3)with different scales are designed based on YOLO-Fastest.To train and evaluate these lightweight models,a multi-user low-resolution thermal face database(RGBT-MLTF)was collected,and the four networks were trained.Experiments demon⁃strate that the lightweight convolutional neural network performs well in thermal infrared face detection tasks.The proposed algorithm outperforms existing face detection methods in both positioning accuracy and speed,making it more suitable for deployment on mobile platforms or embedded devices.After obtaining the region of interest(ROI)in the infrared(IR)image,the RGB camera is guided by the thermal infrared face detection results to achieve fine positioning of the RGB face.Experimental results show that YOLO-Fastest-IR achieves a frame rate of 92.9 FPS on a Raspberry Pi 4B and successfully detects 97.4%of faces in the RGBT-MLTF test set.Ultimate⁃ly,an infrared temperature measurement system with low cost,strong robustness,and high real-time perfor⁃mance was integrated,achieving a temperature measurement accuracy of 0.3℃.
基金Supported by the Key Laboratory Fund for Equipment Pre-Research(6142207210202)。
文摘Aiming at the problem that infrared small target detection faces low contrast between the background and the target and insufficient noise suppression ability under the complex cloud background,an infrared small target detection method based on the tensor nuclear norm and direction residual weighting was proposed.Based on converting the infrared image into an infrared patch tensor model,from the perspective of the low-rank nature of the background tensor,and taking advantage of the difference in contrast between the background and the target in different directions,we designed a double-neighborhood local contrast based on direction residual weighting method(DNLCDRW)combined with the partial sum of tensor nuclear norm(PSTNN)to achieve effective background suppression and recovery of infrared small targets.Experiments show that the algorithm is effective in suppressing the background and improving the detection ability of the target.
基金co-supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2024M754304)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(No.2025JJ60072)。
文摘1.Introduction Infrared Imaging Missiles(IRIMs)are advanced weapons utilizing infrared technology for target detection and tracking.Their sensors capture thermal signatures and convert them into electronic images,enabling precise target identification and tracking.To a certain extent,the all-weather adaptability of IRIMs enables their effective operation across diverse environmental conditions,providing high targeting accuracy and cost efficiency.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.:32301161)the Natural Scientific Foundation of Hunan Province,China(Grant No.:2023JJ60052)+3 种基金the Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Health Commission,China(Grant No.:202112062218,20190161)the Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education,China(Grant No.:22B0455)the Clinical“4310”Project of the University of South China,China(Grant No.:20224310NHYCG02)the Doctoral Scientific Research Foundation of University of South China,China(Grant No.:200XQD042).
文摘Infrared(IR)spectroscopy,a technique within the realm of molecular vibrational spectroscopy,furnishes distinctive chemical signatures pivotal for both structural analysis and compound identification.A notable challenge emerges from the misalignment between the mid-IR light wavelength range and molecular dimensions,culminating in a constrained absorption cross-section and diminished vibrational absorption coefficients(Supplementary data).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.52205548)。
文摘To address the issues of unknown target size,blurred edges,background interference and low contrast in infrared small target detection,this paper proposes a method based on density peaks searching and weighted multi-feature local difference.Firstly,an improved high-boost filter is used for preprocessing to eliminate background clutter and high-brightness interference,thereby increasing the probability of capturing real targets in the density peak search.Secondly,a triple-layer window is used to extract features from the area surrounding candidate targets,addressing the uncertainty of small target sizes.By calculating multi-feature local differences between the triple-layer windows,the problems of blurred target edges and low contrast are resolved.To balance the contribution of different features,intra-class distance is used to calculate weights,achieving weighted fusion of multi-feature local differences to obtain the weighted multi-feature local differences of candidate targets.The real targets are then extracted using the interquartile range.Experiments on datasets such as SIRST and IRSTD-IK show that the proposed method is suitable for various complex types and demonstrates good robustness and detection performance.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62103298)。
文摘Aiming at the problems of low detection accuracy and large model size of existing object detection algorithms applied to complex road scenes,an improved you only look once version 8(YOLOv8)object detection algorithm for infrared images,F-YOLOv8,is proposed.First,a spatial-to-depth network replaces the traditional backbone network's strided convolution or pooling layer.At the same time,it combines with the channel attention mechanism so that the neural network focuses on the channels with large weight values to better extract low-resolution image feature information;then an improved feature pyramid network of lightweight bidirectional feature pyramid network(L-BiFPN)is proposed,which can efficiently fuse features of different scales.In addition,a loss function of insertion of union based on the minimum point distance(MPDIoU)is introduced for bounding box regression,which obtains faster convergence speed and more accurate regression results.Experimental results on the FLIR dataset show that the improved algorithm can accurately detect infrared road targets in real time with 3%and 2.2%enhancement in mean average precision at 50%IoU(mAP50)and mean average precision at 50%—95%IoU(mAP50-95),respectively,and 38.1%,37.3%and 16.9%reduction in the number of model parameters,the model weight,and floating-point operations per second(FLOPs),respectively.To further demonstrate the detection capability of the improved algorithm,it is tested on the public dataset PASCAL VOC,and the results show that F-YOLO has excellent generalized detection performance.
基金Supported by the Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Aircraft Environment Control and Life Support,MIIT,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Grant No. KLAECLSE-202201)。
文摘The water curtain spray system of the ship helps reduce surface thermal load and lowers thermal infrared radiation, notably enhancing the stealth and survivability of naval ships. The performance of the water curtain spray system is largely influenced by the density of the nozzles and their installation height. Therefore, a test platform was established to investigate these critical influencing factors, employing an orthogonal design methodology for the experimental study. Specifically, the study evaluated the effects of varying distances to the steel plate target and different injection heights on the cooling performance of the system. Results demonstrate that using one nozzle per 4 square meters of the ship's surface area effectively lowers the surface temperature, bringing it closer to the ambient background temperature. This nozzle configuration creates irregular infrared heat patterns, which complicate the task for infrared detectors to discern the ship's outline, thus enhancing its infrared stealth. Additionally, maintaining the nozzle installation height within 0.6 m to prevent the temperature difference between the steel plate and the background temperature from exceeding 4 K. Moreover, as the infrared imaging distance increases from 3 to 9 m, the temperature difference measured by the thermocouple and the infrared imager increases by 141.27%. Furthermore, with the increase in infrared imaging distance, the infrared temperature of the target steel plate approaches the background temperature, indicating improved detectability. These findings have significantly enhanced the stealth capabilities of naval ships, maximizing their immunity to infrared-guided weapon attacks. Moreover, their importance in improving the survivability of ships on the water surface cannot be underestimated.
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62204015)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(L223006).
文摘Infrared optoelectronic sensing is the core of many critical applications such as night vision,health and medication,military,space exploration,etc.Further including mechanical flexibility as a new dimension enables novel features of adaptability and conformability,promising for developing next-generation optoelectronic sensory applications toward reduced size,weight,price,power consumption,and enhanced performance(SWaP^(3)).However,in this emerging research frontier,challenges persist in simultaneously achieving high infrared response and good mechanical deformability in devices and integrated systems.Therefore,we perform a comprehensive review of the design strategies and insights of flexible infrared optoelectronic sensors,including the fundamentals of infrared photodetectors,selection of materials and device architectures,fabrication techniques and design strategies,and the discussion of architectural and functional integration towards applications in wearable optoelectronics and advanced image sensing.Finally,this article offers insights into future directions to practically realize the ultra-high performance and smart sensors enabled by infrared-sensitive materials,covering challenges in materials development and device micro-/nanofabrication.Benchmarks for scaling these techniques across fabrication,performance,and integration are presented,alongside perspectives on potential applications in medication and health,biomimetic vision,and neuromorphic sensory systems,etc.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.52071053,U1704253,and 52103334).
文摘Traditional stealth materials do not fulfill the requirements of high absorption for radar waves and low emissivity for infrared waves.Furthermore,they can be detected by various technologies,considerably threatening weapon safety.Therefore,a stealth material compatible with radar and infrared was designed based on the photonic bandgap characteristics of photonic crystals.The radar stealth lay-er(bottom layer)is a composite of carbonyl iron/silicon dioxide/epoxy resin,and the infrared stealth layer(top layer)is a 1D photonic crystal with alternately and periodically stacked germanium and silicon nitride.Through composition optimization and structural adjust-ment,the effective absorption bandwidth of the compatible stealth material with a reflection loss of less than-10 dB has reached 4.95 GHz.The average infrared emissivity of the proposed design is 0.1063,indicating good stealth performance.The theoretical analysis proves that photonic crystals with this structural design can produce infrared waves within the photonic bandgap,achieving high radar wave transmittance and low infrared emissivity.Infrared stealth is achieved without affecting the absorption performance of the radar stealth layer,and the conflict between radar and infrared stealth performance is resolved.This work aims to promote the application of photonic crystals in compatible stealth materials and the development of stealth technology and to provide a design and theoretical found-ation for related experiments and research.
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Sichuan Province(Grant No.2023ZHCG0050)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No.2682024QZ006 and 2682024ZTPY042)the Analytic and Testing Center of Southwest Jiaotong University.
文摘As modern communication and detection technologies advance at a swift pace,multifunctional electromagnetic interference(EMI)shielding materials with active/positive infrared stealth,hydrophobicity,and electric-thermal conversion ability have received extensive attention.Meeting the aforesaid requirements simultaneously remains a huge challenge.In this research,the melamine foam(MF)/polypyrrole(PPy)nanowire arrays(MF@PPy)were fabricated via one-step electrochemical polymerization.The hierarchical MF@PPy foam was composed of three-dimensional PPy micro-skeleton and ordered PPy nanowire arrays.Due to the upwardly grown PPy nanowire arrays,the MF@PPy foam possessed good hydrophobicity ability with a water contact angle of 142.00°and outstanding stability under various harsh environments.Meanwhile,the MF@PPy foam showed excellent thermal insulation property on account of the low thermal conductivity and elongated ligament characteristic of PPy nanowire arrays.Furthermore,taking advantage of the high conductivity(128.2 S m^(-1)),the MF@PPy foam exhibited rapid Joule heating under 3 V,resulting in dynamic infrared stealth and thermal camouflage effects.More importantly,the MF@PPy foam exhibited remarkable EMI shielding effectiveness values of 55.77 dB and 19,928.57 dB cm^(2)g^(-1).Strong EMI shielding was put down to the hierarchically porous PPy structure,which offered outstanding impedance matching,conduction loss,and multiple attenuations.This innovative approach provides significant insights to the development of advanced multifunctional EMI shielding foams by constructing PPy nanowire arrays,showing great applications in both military and civilian fields.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Project of China(No.2023YFB3709605)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62073193)the National College Student Innovation Training Program(No.202310422122)。
文摘Potential high-temperature risks exist in heat-prone components of electric moped charging devices,such as sockets,interfaces,and controllers.Traditional detection methods have limitations in terms of real-time performance and monitoring scope.To address this,a temperature detection method based on infrared image processing has been proposed:utilizing the median filtering algorithm to denoise the original infrared image,then applying an image segmentation algorithm to divide the image.
基金Supported by the National Pre-research Program during the 14th Five-Year Plan(514010405)。
文摘In response to the scarcity of infrared aircraft samples and the tendency of traditional deep learning to overfit,a few-shot infrared aircraft classification method based on cross-correlation networks is proposed.This method combines two core modules:a simple parameter-free self-attention and cross-attention.By analyzing the self-correlation and cross-correlation between support images and query images,it achieves effective classification of infrared aircraft under few-shot conditions.The proposed cross-correlation network integrates these two modules and is trained in an end-to-end manner.The simple parameter-free self-attention is responsible for extracting the internal structure of the image while the cross-attention can calculate the cross-correlation between images further extracting and fusing the features between images.Compared with existing few-shot infrared target classification models,this model focuses on the geometric structure and thermal texture information of infrared images by modeling the semantic relevance between the features of the support set and query set,thus better attending to the target objects.Experimental results show that this method outperforms existing infrared aircraft classification methods in various classification tasks,with the highest classification accuracy improvement exceeding 3%.In addition,ablation experiments and comparative experiments also prove the effectiveness of the method.
基金Supported by the Henan Province Key Research and Development Project(231111211300)the Central Government of Henan Province Guides Local Science and Technology Development Funds(Z20231811005)+2 种基金Henan Province Key Research and Development Project(231111110100)Henan Provincial Outstanding Foreign Scientist Studio(GZS2024006)Henan Provincial Joint Fund for Scientific and Technological Research and Development Plan(Application and Overcoming Technical Barriers)(242103810028)。
文摘The fusion of infrared and visible images should emphasize the salient targets in the infrared image while preserving the textural details of the visible images.To meet these requirements,an autoencoder-based method for infrared and visible image fusion is proposed.The encoder designed according to the optimization objective consists of a base encoder and a detail encoder,which is used to extract low-frequency and high-frequency information from the image.This extraction may lead to some information not being captured,so a compensation encoder is proposed to supplement the missing information.Multi-scale decomposition is also employed to extract image features more comprehensively.The decoder combines low-frequency,high-frequency and supplementary information to obtain multi-scale features.Subsequently,the attention strategy and fusion module are introduced to perform multi-scale fusion for image reconstruction.Experimental results on three datasets show that the fused images generated by this network effectively retain salient targets while being more consistent with human visual perception.
基金Support by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(2024300443)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)Young Scientists Fund(62405131)。
文摘This article proposes a three-dimensional light field reconstruction method based on neural radiation field(NeRF)called Infrared NeRF for low resolution thermal infrared scenes.Based on the characteristics of the low resolution thermal infrared imaging,various optimizations have been carried out to improve the speed and accuracy of thermal infrared 3D reconstruction.Firstly,inspired by Boltzmann's law of thermal radiation,distance is incorporated into the NeRF model for the first time,resulting in a nonlinear propagation of a single ray and a more accurate description of the physical property that infrared radiation intensity decreases with increasing distance.Secondly,in terms of improving inference speed,based on the phenomenon of high and low frequency distribution of foreground and background in infrared images,a multi ray non-uniform light synthesis strategy is proposed to make the model pay more attention to foreground objects in the scene,reduce the distribution of light in the background,and significantly reduce training time without reducing accuracy.In addition,compared to visible light scenes,infrared images only have a single channel,so fewer network parameters are required.Experiments using the same training data and data filtering method showed that,compared to the original NeRF,the improved network achieved an average improvement of 13.8%and 4.62%in PSNR and SSIM,respectively,while an average decreases of 46%in LPIPS.And thanks to the optimization of network layers and data filtering methods,training only takes about 25%of the original method's time to achieve convergence.Finally,for scenes with weak backgrounds,this article improves the inference speed of the model by 4-6 times compared to the original NeRF by limiting the query interval of the model.
基金Supported by the Short-wave Infrared Camera Systems(B025F40622024)。
文摘The accuracy of spot centroid positioning has a significant impact on the tracking accuracy of the system and the stability of the laser link construction.In satellite laser communication systems,the use of short-wave infrared wavelengths as beacon light can reduce atmospheric absorption and signal attenuation.However,there are strong non-uniformity and blind pixels in the short-wave infrared image,which makes the image distorted and leads to the decrease of spot centroid positioning accuracy.Therefore,the high-precision localization of the spot centroid of the short-wave infrared images is of great research significance.A high-precision spot centroid positioning model for short-wave infrared is proposed to correct for non-uniformity and blind pixels in short-wave infrared images and quantify the localization errors caused by the two,further model-based localization error simulations are performed,and a novel spot centroid positioning payload for satellite laser communications has been designed using the latest 640×512 planar array InGaAs shortwave infrared detector.The experimental results show that the non-uniformity of the corrected image is reduced from 7%to 0.6%,the blind pixels rejection rate reaches 100%,the frame rate can be up to 2000 Hz,and the spot centroid localization accuracy is as high as 0.1 pixel point,which realizes high-precision spot centroid localization of high-frame-frequency short-wave infrared images.
基金Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFB3904803)。
文摘The Infrared Hyperspectral Atmospheric SounderⅡ(HIRAS-Ⅱ)is the key equipment on FengYun-3E(FY-3E)satellite,which can realize vertical atmospheric detection,featuring hyper spectral,high sensitivity and high precision.To ensure its accuracy of detection,it is necessary to correlate their thermal models to in-orbit da⁃ta.In this work,an investigation of intelligent correlation method named Intelligent Correlation Platform for Ther⁃mal Model(ICP-TM)was established,the advanced Kriging surrogate model and efficient adaptive region opti⁃mization algorithm were introduced.After the correlation with this method for FY-3E/HIRAS-Ⅱ,the results indi⁃cate that compared with the data in orbit,the error of the thermal model has decreased from 5 K to within±1 K in cold case(10℃).Then,the correlated model is validated in hot case(20℃),and the correlated model exhibits good universality.This correlation precision is also much superiors to the general ones like 3 K in other similar lit⁃erature.Furthermore,the process is finished in 8 days using ICP-TM,the efficiency is much better than 3 months based on manual.The results show that the proposed approach significantly enhances the accuracy and efficiency of thermal model,this contributes to the precise thermal control of subsequent infrared optical payloads.
基金Supported by the Fundamental Scientific Research Plan of China(JCKY2021130B033)。
文摘In order to meet the urgent need of infrared search and track applications for accurate identification and positioning of infrared guidance aircraft,an active-detection mid-wave infrared search and track system(ADMWIRSTS)based on"cat-eye effect"was developed.The ADMWIRSTS mainly consists of both a light beam control subsystem and an infrared search and track subsystem.The light beam control subsystem uses an integrated opto-mechanical two-dimensional pointing mirror to realize the control function of the azimuth and pitch directions of the system,which can cover the whole airspace range of 360°×90°.The infrared search and track subsystem uses two mid-wave infrared cooled 640×512 focal plane detectors for co-aperture beam expanding,infrared and illumination laser beam combining,infrared search,and two-stage track opto-mechanical design.In this work,the system integration design and structural finite-element analysis were conducted,the search imaging and two-stage track imaging for external scenes were performed,and the active-detection technologies were experimentally verified in the laboratory.The experimental investigation results show that the system can realize the infrared search and track imaging,and the accurate identification and positioning of the mid-wave infrared guidance,or infrared detection system through the echo of the illumination laser.The aforementioned work has important technical significance and practical application value for the development of compactly-integrated high-precision infrared search and track,and laser suppression system,and has broad application prospects in the protection of equipment,assets and infrastructures.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China(51705326,52075339)。
文摘In sub nanometer carbon nanotubes,water exhibits unique dynamic characteristics,and in the high-frequency region of the infrared spectrum,where the stretching vibrations of the internal oxygen-hydrogen(O-H)bonds are closely related to the hydrogen bonds(H-bonds)network between water molecules.Therefore,it is crucial to analyze the relationship between these two aspects.In this paper,the infrared spectrum and motion characteristics of the stretching vibrations of the O-H bonds in one-dimensional confined water(1DCW)and bulk water(BW)in(6,6)single-walled carbon nanotubes(SWNT)are studied by molecular dynamics simulations.The results show that the stretching vibrations of the two O-H bonds in 1DCW exhibit different frequencies in the infrared spectrum,while the O-H bonds in BW display two identical main frequency peaks.Further analysis using the spring oscillator model reveals that the difference in the stretching amplitude of the O-H bonds is the main factor causing the change in vibration frequency,where an increase in stretching amplitude leads to a decrease in spring stiffness and,consequently,a lower vibration frequency.A more in-depth study found that the interaction of H-bonds between water molecules is the fundamental cause of the increased stretching amplitude and decreased vibration frequency of the O-H bonds.Finally,by analyzing the motion trajectory of the H atoms,the dynamic differences between 1DCW and BW are clearly revealed.These findings provide a new perspective for understanding the behavior of water molecules at the nanoscale and are of significant importance in advancing the development of infrared spectroscopy detection technology.
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant No.BK20241181)the State Key Laboratory of AnalyticalChemistry for Life Science,School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Nanjing University(Grant No.SKLACLS2419)。
文摘Using 2-dicyanomethylene-3-cyano-4,5,5-trimethyl-2,5-dihydrofuran(TCF)as a near-infrared fluorescent chromophore,we designed and synthesized a TCF-based fluorescent probe TCF-NS by introducing 2,4-dinitrophenyl ether as the recognized site for H_(2)S.The probe TCF-NS displayed a rapid-response fluorescent against H_(2)S with high sensitivity and selection but had no significant fluorescence response to other biothiols.Furthermore,TCF-NS was applied to sense H_(2)S in living cells successfully with minimized cytotoxicity and a large Stokes shift.
文摘This communication looks at the photo-oxidation of polythene and polypropylene plastic bottle tops that are placed on soil in a hot arid environment. The degree of oxidation of the plastic is monitored by FT-IR spectroscopy. It is noted that while different bottle top types photo-oxidize at different rates, all show an appreciable level of oxidation after half a year of exposure to the environment. The oxidation leads to brittleness of the plastic, which leads to fissure formation in bottle tops of little thickness. This leads to fragmentation of the material upon impact, making plastic bottle tops an appreciable source of microplastics.
