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To address these challenges, this paper proposes a gas leak detection method that integrates gas characteristics with spatiotemporal information. Specifically, the non-solid characteristics of gas are incorporated to constrain the foreground extraction process of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), thereby suppressing interfering moving objects. Furthermore, by exploiting the spatiotemporal information in infrared image sequences, a multi-scale cross-attention fusion model is designed to fuse multi-scale and global feature representations, improving the accuracy of foreground detection. Finally, density-based clustering is employed to achieve complete segmentation of gas regions with irregular shapes. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively suppresses interference from solid objects, accurately detects gas leakage, and successfully segments the diffusion regions. 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