main.m

% This code is an implementation of the small target detecton algorithm in our published paper: Chenqiang Gao, Deyu Meng, Yi Yang, et al., "Infrared Patch-Image Model for Small Target Detection in a Single Image, " Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 4996-5009, 2013.
% please note that this code do not contain the segmentation step. If you
% want to get the locations of small targets, you need to use some
% segmentation algorithm.
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% If you use this code in your publications, please cite:
% Chenqiang Gao, Deyu Meng, Yi Yang, et al., "Infrared Patch-Image Model for Small Target Detection in a Single Image, " Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 22, no. 12, pp. 4996-5009, 2013. 
% @article{Gao2013,
%    author = {Gao, Chenqiang and Meng, Deyu and Yang, Yi and Wang, Yongtao and Zhou, Xiaofang and Hauptmann, Alex},
%    title = {Infrared Patch-Image Model for Small Target Detection in a Single Image},
%    journal = {Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on},
%    volume = {22},
%    number = {12},
%    pages = {4996-5009},
%    year = {2013}
% }
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% If you have any questions, please contact:
% Author: Chenqiang Gao 
% Email: gaochenqiang@gmail.com or gaocq@cqupt.edu.cn
% Copyright:  Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications
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% License: Our code is only available for non-commercial research use.

clc;
close all;
strDir = 'images/';
strDir1 = 'results/';
files = {'1.jpg', '2.jpg', '3.jpg', '4.jpg', '5.jpg'};
opt.dw = 50;
opt.dh = 50;
opt.x_step = 10;
opt.y_step = 10;
figure('units','normalized','outerposition',[0 0 1 1]);
for i=1:length(files)
    fprintf('%d/%d: %s\n', length(files), i, files{i});
    I = imread([strDir files{i}]);
    [A, E] = winRPCA_median(I, opt);
    maxv = max(max(double(I)));
    A = uint8( mat2gray(A) * maxv );
    E = uint8( mat2gray(E) * 255 );
    %% show results
    hold on;
    p = strcat('Image-',num2str(i));
    subplot(3, length(files), i), imshow(I), title(p);
    if i==1
        ylabel('Original Image');
    end
    subplot(3, length(files), length(files)+i), imshow(A);
    if i==1
        ylabel('Background Image');
    end
    subplot(3, length(files), 2*length(files)+i), imshow(E) ;
    if i==1
        ylabel('Target Image');
    end
    %% save into files
    imwrite(E, [strDir1 'E/' files{i}]);
    imwrite(A, [strDir1 'A/' files{i}]);
end
saveas(gcf, './doc/result.png');