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Based on this background, this paper proposes a novel infrared small target detection method based on non-convex optimization with Lp-norm constraint (NOLC). The NOLC method strengthens the sparse item constraint with Lp-norm while appropriately scaling the constraints on low-rank item, so the NP-hard problem is transformed into a non-convex optimization problem. First, the infrared image is converted into a patch image and is secondly solved by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM). In this paper, an efficient solver is given by improving the convergence strategy. The experiment shows that NOLC can accurately detect the target and greatly suppress the background, and the advantages of the NOLC method in detection efficiency and computational efficiency are verified.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11050559","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,8]],"date-time":"2019-03-08T04:58:35Z","timestamp":1552021115000},"page":"559","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":150,"title":["Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Non-Convex Optimization with Lp-Norm Constraint"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Tianfang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4328-6427","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yuhan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"}]},{"given":"Lingbing","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"}]},{"given":"Chunping","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4148-3331","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhenming","family":"Peng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China"},{"name":"Center for Information Geoscience, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"403","DOI":"10.1016\/j.infrared.2012.06.001","article-title":"An improved infrared dim and small target detection algorithm based on the contrast mechanism of human visual system","volume":"55","author":"Shao","year":"2012","journal-title":"Infrared Phys. 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