The invention relates to the technical field of target detection, in particular to a
search and rescue task-oriented unmanned aerial vehicle thermal imaging visual target detection method, which comprises the following steps of: acquiring multiple frames of thermal imaging images of an unmanned aerial vehicle, extracting regional thermal difference characteristics according to a window, marking a non-background region to generate a candidate set, and fitting and reconstructing a suspected thermal target contour. And analyzing the track and the thermal change rate, screening background interference, identifying jump abnormity, positioning the
gravity center, and generating a target repositioning
signal. According to the method, the heat value range and variance index sequence in the
image area is constructed, the thermal anomaly area is judged in combination with the temperature baseline difference, background disturbance comparison is executed in combination with the
direction vector of the coordinate trajectory in the multi-frame image and the thermal change parameter, the
false detection probability caused by
background noise is reduced, and the detection accuracy is improved. The target jump identification is carried out according to the inter-frame heat value and
area change rate in linkage with the thermal isoline closure degree, the target discrimination accuracy in a shielding scene is improved, and the robustness of thermal target extraction in a complex
search and rescue environment is integrally improved.