Infrared dim-small target detection method based on shear wave conversion

The invention belongs to an infrared dim-small target detection method based on shear wave conversion in the infrared image processing technology. The method comprises the following steps: processing an original infrared image by employing nonsubsampled Laplace pyramid conversion and a Shearlet filter in succession to obtain high frequency information graphs of various directions under different scales, inhibiting background and noise interference information, enhancing target information and extracting a dim-small target. According to the invention, the nonsubsampled Laplace pyramid conversion and a Shearlet filter are employed to process the original infrared image, through same scale and different scales fusion processing of the obtained the high frequency information graphs, the interference information is inhibited, the target information is enhanced, and the high frequency information graphs are subjected to segmentation to obtain a clear dim-small target graph; thereby the method has the characteristics of a short detection processing flow, small data processing amount, short processing time, capability of effectively raising performance of detecting the infrared dim-small target and obviously distinguishing a target and a complex background in the image, a good effect and the like.