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Firstly, a feature extraction module named MSIA, which is based on asymmetric convolution, is proposed, and it can greatly reduce the number of parameters and improve the detection performance by reusing information. In addition, we propose a down-sampling module named DPP to reduce the information loss caused by pooling down-sampling. Finally, we propose a feature fusion structure named LIR-FPN that can shorten the information transmission path and effectively reduce the noise in the process of feature fusion. In order to improve the ability of the network to focus on the target, we introduce coordinate attention (CA) into the LIR-FPN; this integrates the location information of the target into the channel so as to obtain more expressive feature information. Finally, a comparative experiment with other SOTA methods was completed on the FLIR on-board infrared image dataset, which proved the powerful detection performance of MSIA-Net.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e25050808","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,18]],"date-time":"2023-05-18T07:35:50Z","timestamp":1684395350000},"page":"808","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["MSIA-Net: A Lightweight Infrared Target Detection Network with Efficient Information Fusion"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Jimin","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China"}]},{"given":"Shun","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5057-8431","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shangbo","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China"}]},{"given":"Hui","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,17]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Zhang, D.H., Sun, Y.F., Wang, J.Y., and Xu, S.L. 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