Research Article

Dim-Small Target Detection Based on Adaptive Pipeline Filtering

Algorithm 1

The adaptive pipeline filtering algorithm (APFA).
(1)Input: Sequence difference images that were obtained by the SRLBMA algorithm.
   Parameters , , , , , , c, and
(2)while not the last image do
(3)// Centroids and velocities prediction of targets
(4)// Time-domain energy enhancement of targets
(5)// Pipeline centers adaptive and pipeline radiuses adaptive
(6)Pipeline target detecting
(7)end while
(8)Output: target images