The invention discloses an
infrared weak and
small target detection method. The method at least comprises the following steps: S1, an image preprocessing step; s2, an image blocking step: dividing theto-be-processed image into four overlapped sub-images, and performing
parallel processing; s3, carrying out partition target segmentation on the sub-images, carrying out target segmentation on a large area by utilizing a maximum between-cluster
variance method, carrying out target segmentation on a
cell by utilizing a local
signal-to-
clutter ratio threshold segmentation method, and carrying out target fusion
processing on two segmentation results; s4, carrying out
noise filtering on the sub-images, wherein the
noise filtering comprises scatter filtering and shape filtering; s5, calculating target information, wherein the target information at least comprises a target
centroid position, a size and a
signal-to-
noise ratio; and S6, performing target fusion
processing on the
processing results of the four sub-images, deleting targets repeatedly detected in the overlapping region, and outputting target information. According to the method, an
improved method is designed for
infrared imagenoise suppression and small and weak target detection, the small and weak target detection probability can be effectively improved, and the
false alarm rate is reduced.