Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Preliminaries.-Chapter 3: Morphological Transformation for infrared small object detection -- Chapter 4: Low-rank tensor decomposition for infrared small object detection -- Chapter 5: Deep learning methods for infrared small object detection -- Chapter 6: Performance of different methods. Chapter 7: Summary and Outlook of research on infrared small target detection.

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