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Infrared small-target detection, as a branch of target detection, can improve the perception capability of autonomous systems, and it has good application prospects in infrared alarm, automatic driving and other fields. There are many well-established algorithms that perform well in infrared small-target detection. Nevertheless, the current algorithms cannot achieve the expected detection effect in complex environments, such as background clutter, noise inundation or very small targets. We have designed an image enhancement-based detection algorithm to solve both problems through detail enhancement and target expansion. This method first enhances the mutation information, detail and edge information of the image and then improves the contrast between the target edge and the adjacent pixels to make the target more prominent. The enhancement improves the robustness of detection with background clutter or noise-flooded scenes. 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