Structure-Adaptive Clutter Suppression for Infrared Small Target Detection: Chain-Growth Filtering

Suqi Huang 1,2 ID , Yuhan Liu 1,2 ID , Yanmin He 1,2, Tianfang Zhang 1,2 and Zhenming Peng 1,2,3,* ID 1 School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China; huangsuqi@std.uestc.edu.cn (S.H.); yuhanliu0211@outlook.com (Y.L.); heyanmin@uestc.edu.cn (Y.H.); sparkcarleton@gmail.com (T.Z.) 2 Laboratory of Imaging Detection and Intelligent Perception, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China 3 Center for Information Geoscience, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China * Correspondence: zmpeng@uestc.edu.cn; Tel.: +86-028-8320-8185

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