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Degraded Infrared Small Object Detection via Degradation-Adapted Physics-Guided Restoration

Infrared small object detection has made significant progress in recent years. However, degradations such as fog and nonuniformity can suppress target-background contrast, substantially increasing detection difficulty. Existing methods mainly rely on image restoration as preprocessing, but they are typically designed for specific degradation types and fail to generalize to varying degradations. To alleviate this, we propose DAISOD, a degradation-adapted infrared small object detection framework for robust detection under different degradations. DAISOD first identifies the type and severity of degradations, then adapts the processing via dedicated branches, and finally fuses the results for subsequent detection. Moreover, a physics-guided restoration mechanism is incorporated to explicitly estimate degradation parameters and remove degradation effects through physical models, avoiding excessive restoration that may erase small targets. Moreover, we construct a degraded infrared small object detection dataset covering diverse degradation types and levels. Extensive experiments show that DAISOD outperforms state-of-the-art methods under various degradation conditions.

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Breaking the Synthetic-Real Domain Shortcut for Training-Free Generative Replay-based Class Incremental Learning

Class-incremental learning (CIL) requires models to continuously acquire new knowledge while avoiding catastrophic forgetting. While exemplar replay is effective, it raises concerns regarding privacy and storage. Thus, generative replay has emerged as a viable alternative, synthesizing old data using frozen pretrained text-to-image (T2I) models without any extra training. However, we observe that directly mixing synthetic old-class data with real new-class data during incremental training leads to significant performance degradation. This issue stems from a "domain shortcut", where models rely on domain-discriminative features instead of semantic class cues. To address this, we propose DREAM ($\underline{\mathbf{D}}$omain-$\underline{\mathbf{R}}$egularized $\underline{\mathbf{E}}$xemplar-free $\underline{\mathbf{A}}$lignment $\underline{\mathbf{M}}$odel), which uses a training-free generator to synthesize old-class data and eliminates domain shortcut via subspace rectification and orthogonal projection, while reinforcing semantic alignment through real-anchored prototype regularization. Extensive experiments on 4 datasets demonstrate that DREAM outperforms existing exemplar-free CIL methods and achieves state-of-the-art performance. Our source code is available at https://github.com/Light-ZhangTao/DREAM.

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Denoising-Enhanced Coarse-to-Fine Infrared Small Target Detection with Attention Prior-Guided Knowledge Distillation

Infrared small target detection (IRSTD) in high-resolution images is crucial for many practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based ground monitoring. However, IRSTD remains challenging due to the small size and weak features of targets, as well as significant interference from complex dynamic backgrounds. Existing detection methods often suffer from redundant computations on non-target background regions and insufficient exploitation of target context information, which limits their performance in complex backgrounds. To address these issues, we propose an efficient coarse-to-fine infrared small target detection framework with attention prior-guided knowledge distillation, termed ECFNet. In the coarse stage, we design a region binary classification network (RBCN) on grid-based multi-scale feature maps to efficiently recognize target-containing context region proposals. Moreover, we introduce a novel denoising-assisted training strategy that incorporates noisy ground-truth (GT) masks into RBCN feature maps and trains the network to reconstruct the original GT masks through a denoising task, thereby encouraging it to explicitly learn target-background context and thus better distinguish target proposals from background regions. In the fine stage, we customize a lightweight target detector to the coarse stage's region proposals for balancing accuracy and efficiency. Furthermore, we propose a knowledge distillation strategy guided by the teacher-student cross-attention prior. This mechanism directs the student to focus on critical target regions, thereby enhancing the discriminative feature representation for infrared small targets. Extensive experiments on three real infrared datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms both existing single-stage and two-stage approaches while maintaining high real-time processing efficiency.

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ST-Gen4D: Embedding 4D Spatiotemporal Cognition into World Model for 4D Generation

Generative models have achieved success in producing apparently coherent 2D videos, but remain challenging in the physical world due to lack of 4D spatiotemporal scale. Typically, existing 4D generative models directly embed macro scale constraints to enhance overall spatiotemporal consistency. However, these methods only ensure global appearance coherence and fail to reveal the local dynamics of the physical world. Our insight is that global appearance structure and local dynamic topology empower 4D spatiotemporal cognition, thereby enabling 4D generation with spatiotemporal regularities. In this work, we propose ST-Gen4D, a 4D generation framework with 4D spatiotemporal cognition-based world model. Our model is guided by four key designs: 1) Spatiotemporal representation. We encode various modalities into multiple representations as a feature basis. 2) Spatiotemporal cognition. We sculpture these representations into global appearance graph and local dynamic graph, and fuse them via semantic-bridged spatiotemporal fusion to obtain a 4D cognition graph. 3) Spatiotemporal reasoning. We utilize a world model to derive future state based on the 4D cognition. 4) Spatiotemporal generation. We leverage the derived cognition as condition to guide latent diffusion for 4D Gaussian generation. By deeply integrating 4D intrinsic cognition with generative priors, our model guarantees the structural rationality and topological consistency of 4D generation. Moreover, we propose ST-4D datasets by aggregating public 4D datasets and self-built subset. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our ST-Gen4D across 3D and 4D generation tasks.

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ST-$\pi$: Structured SpatioTemporal VLA for Robotic Manipulation

Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved great success on general robotic tasks, but still face challenges in fine-grained spatiotemporal manipulation. Typically, existing methods mainly embed spatiotemporal knowledge into visual and action representations, and directly perform a cross-modal mapping for step-level action prediction. However, such spatiotemporal reasoning remains largely implicit, making it difficult to handle multiple sequential behaviors with explicit spatiotemporal boundaries. In this work, we propose ST-$\pi$, a structured spatiotemporal VLA model for robotic manipulation. Our model is guided by two key designs: 1) Spatiotemporal VLM. We encode 4D observations and task instructions into latent spaces, and feed them into the LLM to generate a sequence of causally ordered chunk-level action prompts consisting of sub-tasks, spatial grounding and temporal grounding. 2) Spatiotemporal action expert. Conditioned on chunk-level action prompts, we design a structured dual-generator guidance to jointly model spatial dependencies and temporal causality, thus predicting step-level action parameters. Within this structured framework, the VLM explicitly plans global spatiotemporal behavior, and the action expert further refines local spatiotemporal control. In addition, we propose a real-world robotic dataset with structured spatiotemporal annotations for fine-tuning. Extensive experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our model. Our code link: https://github.com/chuanhaoma/ST-pi.

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High-Quality and Efficient Turbulence Mitigation with Events

Turbulence mitigation (TM) is highly ill-posed due to the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence. Most methods rely on multiple frames recorded by conventional cameras to capture stable patterns in natural scenarios. However, they inevitably suffer from a trade-off between accuracy and efficiency: more frames enhance restoration at the cost of higher system latency and larger data overhead. Event cameras, equipped with microsecond temporal resolution and efficient sensing of dynamic changes, offer an opportunity to break the bottleneck. In this work, we present EHETM, a high-quality and efficient TM method inspired by the superiority of events to model motions in continuous sequences. We discover two key phenomena: (1) turbulence-induced events exhibit distinct polarity alternation correlated with sharp image gradients, providing structural cues for restoring scenes; and (2) dynamic objects form spatiotemporally coherent ``event tubes'' in contrast to irregular patterns within turbulent events, providing motion priors for disentangling objects from turbulence. Based on these insights, we design two complementary modules that respectively leverage polarity-weighted gradients for scene refinement and event-tube constraints for motion decoupling, achieving high-quality restoration with few frames. Furthermore, we construct two real-world event-frame turbulence datasets covering atmospheric and thermal cases. Experiments show that EHETM outperforms SOTA methods, especially under scenes with dynamic objects, while reducing data overhead and system latency by approximately 77.3% and 89.5%, respectively. Our code is available at: https://github.com/Xavier667/EHETM.

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NEC-Diff: Noise-Robust Event-RAW Complementary Diffusion for Seeing Motion in Extreme Darkness

High-quality imaging of dynamic scenes in extremely low-light conditions is highly challenging. Photon scarcity induces severe noise and texture loss, causing significant image degradation. Event cameras, featuring a high dynamic range (120 dB) and high sensitivity to motion, serve as powerful complements to conventional cameras by offering crucial cues for preserving subtle textures. However, most existing approaches emphasize texture recovery from events, while paying little attention to image noise or the intrinsic noise of events themselves, which ultimately hinders accurate pixel reconstruction under photon-starved conditions. In this work, we propose NEC-Diff, a novel diffusion-based event-RAW hybrid imaging framework that extracts reliable information from heavily noisy signals to reconstruct fine scene structures. The framework is driven by two key insights: (1) combining the linear light-response property of RAW images with the brightness-change nature of events to establish a physics-driven constraint for robust dual-modal denoising; and (2) dynamically estimating the SNR of both modalities based on denoising results to guide adaptive feature fusion, thereby injecting reliable cues into the diffusion process for high-fidelity visual reconstruction. Furthermore, we construct the REAL (Raw and Event Acquired in Low-light) dataset which provides 47,800 pixel-aligned low-light RAW images, events, and high-quality references under 0.001-0.8 lux illumination. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of NEC-Diff under extreme darkness. The project are available at: https://github.com/jinghan-xu/NEC-Diff.

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Cog2Gen3D: Sculpturing 3D Semantic-Geometric Cognition for 3D Generation

Generative models have achieved success in producing semantically plausible 2D images, but it remains challenging in 3D generation due to the absence of spatial geometry constraints. Typically, existing methods utilize geometric features as conditions to enhance spatial awareness. However, these methods can only model relative relationships and are prone to scale inconsistency of absolute geometry. Thus, we argue that semantic information and absolute geometry empower 3D cognition, thereby enabling controllable 3D generation for the physical world. In this work, we propose Cog2Gen3D, a 3D cognition-guided diffusion framework for 3D generation. Our model is guided by three key designs: 1) Cognitive Feature Embeddings. We encode different modalities into semantic and geometric representations and further extract logical representations. 2) 3D Latent Cognition Graph. We structure different representations into dual-stream semantic-geometric graphs and fuse them via common-based cross-attention to obtain a 3D cognition graph. 3) Cognition-Guided Latent Diffusion. We leverage the fused 3D cognition graph as the condition to guide the latent diffusion process for 3D Gaussian generation. Under this unified framework, the 3D cognition graph ensures the physical plausibility and structural rationality of 3D generation. Moreover, we construct a validation subset based on the Marble World Labs. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our Cog2Gen3D significantly outperforms existing methods in both semantic fidelity and geometric plausibility.

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Adapting Depth Anything to Adverse Imaging Conditions with Events

Robust depth estimation under dynamic and adverse lighting conditions is essential for robotic systems. Currently, depth foundation models, such as Depth Anything, achieve great success in ideal scenes but remain challenging under adverse imaging conditions such as extreme illumination and motion blur. These degradations corrupt the visual signals of frame cameras, weakening the discriminative features of frame-based depths across the spatial and temporal dimensions. Typically, existing approaches incorporate event cameras to leverage their high dynamic range and temporal resolution, aiming to compensate for corrupted frame features. However, such specialized fusion models are predominantly trained from scratch on domain-specific datasets, thereby failing to inherit the open-world knowledge and robust generalization inherent to foundation models. In this work, we propose ADAE, an event-guided spatiotemporal fusion framework for Depth Anything in degraded scenes. Our design is guided by two key insights: 1) Entropy-Aware Spatial Fusion. We adaptively merge frame-based and event-based features using an information entropy strategy to indicate illumination-induced degradation. 2) Motion-Guided Temporal Correction. We resort to the event-based motion cue to recalibrate ambiguous features in blurred regions. Under our unified framework, the two components are complementary to each other and jointly enhance Depth Anything under adverse imaging conditions. Extensive experiments have been performed to verify the superiority of the proposed method. Our code will be released upon acceptance.

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Infrared UAV Target Tracking with Dynamic Feature Refinement and Global Contextual Attention Knowledge Distillation

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target tracking based on thermal infrared imaging has been one of the most important sensing technologies in anti-UAV applications. However, the infrared UAV targets often exhibit weak features and complex backgrounds, posing significant challenges to accurate tracking. To address these problems, we introduce SiamDFF, a novel dynamic feature fusion Siamese network that integrates feature enhancement and global contextual attention knowledge distillation for infrared UAV target (IRUT) tracking. The SiamDFF incorporates a selective target enhancement network (STEN), a dynamic spatial feature aggregation module (DSFAM), and a dynamic channel feature aggregation module (DCFAM). The STEN employs intensity-aware multi-head cross-attention to adaptively enhance important regions for both template and search branches. The DSFAM enhances multi-scale UAV target features by integrating local details with global features, utilizing spatial attention guidance within the search frame. The DCFAM effectively integrates the mixed template generated from STEN in the template branch and original template, avoiding excessive background interference with the template and thereby enhancing the emphasis on UAV target region features within the search frame. Furthermore, to enhance the feature extraction capabilities of the network for IRUT without adding extra computational burden, we propose a novel tracking-specific target-aware contextual attention knowledge distiller. It transfers the target prior from the teacher network to the student model, significantly improving the student network's focus on informative regions at each hierarchical level of the backbone network. Extensive experiments on real infrared UAV datasets demonstrate that the proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art target trackers under complex backgrounds while achieving a real-time tracking speed.

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4D-VGGT: A General Foundation Model with SpatioTemporal Awareness for Dynamic Scene Geometry Estimation

We investigate a challenging task of dynamic scene geometry estimation, which requires representing both spatial and temporal features. Typically, existing methods align the two features into a unified latent space to model scene geometry. However, this unified paradigm suffers from potential mismatched representation due to the heterogeneous nature between spatial and temporal features. In this work, we propose 4D-VGGT, a general foundation model with divide-and-conquer spatiotemporal representation for dynamic scene geometry. Our model is divided into three aspects: 1) Multi-setting input. We design an adaptive visual grid that supports input sequences with arbitrary numbers of views and time steps. 2) Multi-level representation. We propose a cross-view global fusion for spatial representation and a cross-time local fusion for temporal representation. 3) Multi-task prediction. We append multiple task-specific heads to spatiotemporal representations, enabling a comprehensive visual geometry estimation for dynamic scenes. Under this unified framework, these components enhance the feature discriminability and application universality of our model for dynamic scenes. In addition, we integrate multiple geometry datasets to train our model and conduct extensive experiments to verify the effectiveness of our method across various tasks on multiple dynamic scene geometry benchmarks.

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Blur-Robust Detection via Feature Restoration: An End-to-End Framework for Prior-Guided Infrared UAV Target Detection

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) target images often suffer from motion blur degradation caused by rapid sensor movement, significantly reducing contrast between target and background. Generally, detection performance heavily depends on the discriminative feature representation between target and background. Existing methods typically treat deblurring as a preprocessing step focused on visual quality, while neglecting the enhancement of task-relevant features crucial for detection. Improving feature representation for detection under blur conditions remains challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel Joint Feature-Domain Deblurring and Detection end-to-end framework, dubbed JFD3. We design a dual-branch architecture with shared weights, where the clear branch guides the blurred branch to enhance discriminative feature representation. Specifically, we first introduce a lightweight feature restoration network, where features from the clear branch serve as feature-level supervision to guide the blurred branch, thereby enhancing its distinctive capability for detection. We then propose a frequency structure guidance module that refines the structure prior from the restoration network and integrates it into shallow detection layers to enrich target structural information. Finally, a feature consistency self-supervised loss is imposed between the dual-branch detection backbones, driving the blurred branch to approximate the feature representations of the clear one. Wealso construct a benchmark, named IRBlurUAV, containing 30,000 simulated and 4,118 real infrared UAV target images with diverse motion blur. Extensive experiments on IRBlurUAV demonstrate that JFD3 achieves superior detection performance while maintaining real-time efficiency.

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Spatio-Temporal Context Learning with Temporal Difference Convolution for Moving Infrared Small Target Detection

Moving infrared small target detection (IRSTD) plays a critical role in practical applications, such as surveillance of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and UAV-based search system. Moving IRSTD still remains highly challenging due to weak target features and complex background interference. Accurate spatio-temporal feature modeling is crucial for moving target detection, typically achieved through either temporal differences or spatio-temporal (3D) convolutions. Temporal difference can explicitly leverage motion cues but exhibits limited capability in extracting spatial features, whereas 3D convolution effectively represents spatio-temporal features yet lacks explicit awareness of motion dynamics along the temporal dimension. In this paper, we propose a novel moving IRSTD network (TDCNet), which effectively extracts and enhances spatio-temporal features for accurate target detection. Specifically, we introduce a novel temporal difference convolution (TDC) re-parameterization module that comprises three parallel TDC blocks designed to capture contextual dependencies across different temporal ranges. Each TDC block fuses temporal difference and 3D convolution into a unified spatio-temporal convolution representation. This re-parameterized module can effectively capture multi-scale motion contextual features while suppressing pseudo-motion clutter in complex backgrounds, significantly improving detection performance. Moreover, we propose a TDC-guided spatio-temporal attention mechanism that performs cross-attention between the spatio-temporal features from the TDC-based backbone and a parallel 3D backbone. This mechanism models their global semantic dependencies to refine the current frame's features. Extensive experiments on IRSTD-UAV and public infrared datasets demonstrate that our TDCNet achieves state-of-the-art detection performance in moving target detection.

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Injecting Frame-Event Complementary Fusion into Diffusion for Optical Flow in Challenging Scenes

Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture and amplified noise and deteriorate the appearance saturation and boundary completeness of frame cameras, which are necessary for motion feature matching. In degraded scenes, the frame camera provides dense appearance saturation but sparse boundary completeness due to its long imaging time and low dynamic range. In contrast, the event camera offers sparse appearance saturation, while its short imaging time and high dynamic range gives rise to dense boundary completeness. Traditionally, existing methods utilize feature fusion or domain adaptation to introduce event to improve boundary completeness. However, the appearance features are still deteriorated, which severely affects the mostly adopted discriminative models that learn the mapping from visual features to motion fields and generative models that generate motion fields based on given visual features. So we introduce diffusion models that learn the mapping from noising flow to clear flow, which is not affected by the deteriorated visual features. Therefore, we propose a novel optical flow estimation framework Diff-ABFlow based on diffusion models with frame-event appearance-boundary fusion.

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Hierarchical Semantic-Visual Fusion of Visible and Near-infrared Images for Long-range Haze Removal

While image dehazing has advanced substantially in the past decade, most efforts have focused on short-range scenarios, leaving long-range haze removal under-explored. As distance increases, intensified scattering leads to severe haze and signal loss, making it impractical to recover distant details solely from visible images. Near-infrared, with superior fog penetration, offers critical complementary cues through multimodal fusion. However, existing methods focus on content integration while often neglecting haze embedded in visible images, leading to results with residual haze. In this work, we argue that the infrared and visible modalities not only provide complementary low-level visual features, but also share high-level semantic consistency. Motivated by this, we propose a Hierarchical Semantic-Visual Fusion (HSVF) framework, comprising a semantic stream to reconstruct haze-free scenes and a visual stream to incorporate structural details from the near-infrared modality. The semantic stream first acquires haze-robust semantic prediction by aligning modality-invariant intrinsic representations. Then the shared semantics act as strong priors to restore clear and high-contrast distant scenes under severe haze degradation. In parallel, the visual stream focuses on recovering lost structural details from near-infrared by fusing complementary cues from both visible and near-infrared images. Through the cooperation of dual streams, HSVF produces results that exhibit both high-contrast scenes and rich texture details. Moreover, we introduce a novel pixel-aligned visible-infrared haze dataset with semantic labels to facilitate benchmarking. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art approaches in real-world long-range haze removal.

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STD-GS: Exploring Frame-Event Interaction for SpatioTemporal-Disentangled Gaussian Splatting to Reconstruct High-Dynamic Scene

High-dynamic scene reconstruction aims to represent static background with rigid spatial features and dynamic objects with deformed continuous spatiotemporal features. Typically, existing methods adopt unified representation model (e.g., Gaussian) to directly match the spatiotemporal features of dynamic scene from frame camera. However, this unified paradigm fails in the potential discontinuous temporal features of objects due to frame imaging and the heterogeneous spatial features between background and objects. To address this issue, we disentangle the spatiotemporal features into various latent representations to alleviate the spatiotemporal mismatching between background and objects. In this work, we introduce event camera to compensate for frame camera, and propose a spatiotemporal-disentangled Gaussian splatting framework for high-dynamic scene reconstruction. As for dynamic scene, we figure out that background and objects have appearance discrepancy in frame-based spatial features and motion discrepancy in event-based temporal features, which motivates us to distinguish the spatiotemporal features between background and objects via clustering. As for dynamic object, we discover that Gaussian representations and event data share the consistent spatiotemporal characteristic, which could serve as a prior to guide the spatiotemporal disentanglement of object Gaussians. Within Gaussian splatting framework, the cumulative scene-object disentanglement can improve the spatiotemporal discrimination between background and objects to render the time-continuous dynamic scene. Extensive experiments have been performed to verify the superiority of the proposed method.

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TimeTracker: Event-based Continuous Point Tracking for Video Frame Interpolation with Non-linear Motion

Video frame interpolation (VFI) that leverages the bio-inspired event cameras as guidance has recently shown better performance and memory efficiency than the frame-based methods, thanks to the event cameras' advantages, such as high temporal resolution. A hurdle for event-based VFI is how to effectively deal with non-linear motion, caused by the dynamic changes in motion direction and speed within the scene. Existing methods either use events to estimate sparse optical flow or fuse events with image features to estimate dense optical flow. Unfortunately, motion errors often degrade the VFI quality as the continuous motion cues from events do not align with the dense spatial information of images in the temporal dimension. In this paper, we find that object motion is continuous in space, tracking local regions over continuous time enables more accurate identification of spatiotemporal feature correlations. In light of this, we propose a novel continuous point tracking-based VFI framework, named TimeTracker. Specifically, we first design a Scene-Aware Region Segmentation (SARS) module to divide the scene into similar patches. Then, a Continuous Trajectory guided Motion Estimation (CTME) module is proposed to track the continuous motion trajectory of each patch through events. Finally, intermediate frames at any given time are generated through global motion optimization and frame refinement. Moreover, we collect a real-world dataset that features fast non-linear motion. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms prior arts in both motion estimation and frame interpolation quality.

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Detection-Friendly Nonuniformity Correction: A Union Framework for Infrared UAVTarget Detection

Infrared unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) images captured using thermal detectors are often affected by temperature dependent low-frequency nonuniformity, which significantly reduces the contrast of the images. Detecting UAV targets under nonuniform conditions is crucial in UAV surveillance applications. Existing methods typically treat infrared nonuniformity correction (NUC) as a preprocessing step for detection, which leads to suboptimal performance. Balancing the two tasks while enhancing detection beneficial information remains challenging. In this paper, we present a detection-friendly union framework, termed UniCD, that simultaneously addresses both infrared NUC and UAV target detection tasks in an end-to-end manner. We first model NUC as a small number of parameter estimation problem jointly driven by priors and data to generate detection-conducive images. Then, we incorporate a new auxiliary loss with target mask supervision into the backbone of the infrared UAV target detection network to strengthen target features while suppressing the background. To better balance correction and detection, we introduce a detection-guided self-supervised loss to reduce feature discrepancies between the two tasks, thereby enhancing detection robustness to varying nonuniformity levels. Additionally, we construct a new benchmark composed of 50,000 infrared images in various nonuniformity types, multi-scale UAV targets and rich backgrounds with target annotations, called IRBFD. Extensive experiments on IRBFD demonstrate that our UniCD is a robust union framework for NUC and UAV target detection while achieving real-time processing capabilities. Dataset can be available at https://github.com/IVPLaboratory/UniCD.

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