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However, infrared images generally have the defects of low signal-to-noise ratio and low resolution. At the same time, the maritime environment is complicated and changeable. Under the interference of islands, waves and other disturbances, the brightness of small dim targets is easily obscured, which makes them difficult to distinguish. This is difficult for traditional target detection algorithms to deal with. In order to solve these problems, through the analysis of infrared maritime images under a variety of sea conditions including small dim targets, this paper concludes that in infrared maritime images, small targets occupy very few pixels, often do not have any edge contour information, and the gray value and contrast values are very low. The background such as island and strong sea wave occupies a large number of pixels, with obvious texture features, and often has a high gray value. By deeply analyzing the difference between the target and the background, this paper proposes a detection algorithm (SRGM) for infrared small dim targets under different maritime background. Firstly, this algorithm proposes an efficient maritime background filter for the common background in the infrared maritime image. Firstly, the median filter based on the sensitive region selection is used to extract the image background accurately, and then the background is eliminated by image difference with the original image. In addition, this article analyzes the differences in gradient features between strong interference caused by the background and targets, proposes a small dim target extraction operator with two analysis factors that fit the target features perfectly and combines the adaptive threshold segmentation to realize the accurate extraction of the small dim target. The experimental results show that compared with the current popular small dim target detection algorithms, this paper has better performance for target detection in various maritime environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s20041237","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,25]],"date-time":"2020-02-25T04:21:26Z","timestamp":1582604486000},"page":"1237","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["A Robust Detection Algorithm for Infrared Maritime Small and Dim Targets"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Yuwei","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science &amp; Technology, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian 116033, China"}]},{"given":"Lili","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science &amp; Technology, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian 116033, China"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science &amp; Technology, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian 116033, China"}]},{"given":"Wenhai","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Science &amp; Technology, Dalian Maritime University, 1 Linghai Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian 116033, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"122","DOI":"10.1117\/12.603909","article-title":"Performance of an EO\/IR sensor system in marine search and rescue","volume":"5787","author":"Leonard","year":"2005","journal-title":"Proc. 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