Gui-Song Xia

22.0k total citations · 16 hit papers
237 papers, 14.0k citations indexed

About

Gui-Song Xia is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Media Technology and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gui-Song Xia has authored 237 papers receiving a total of 14.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 175 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 95 papers in Media Technology and 64 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gui-Song Xia's work include Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (102 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (82 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (45 papers). Gui-Song Xia is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques (102 papers), Remote-Sensing Image Classification (82 papers) and Advanced Neural Network Applications (45 papers). Gui-Song Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Gui-Song Xia's co-authors include Liangpei Zhang, Jian Ding, Nan Xue, Xiang Bai, Wen Yang, Fan Hu, Jiaming Han, Marcello Pelillo, Mihai Datcu and Qikai Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and Remote Sensing of Environment.

In The Last Decade

Gui-Song Xia

224 papers receiving 13.6k citations

Hit Papers

DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aeria... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2018 2019 2015 2020 2021 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images
    2018 2.1k citations Gui-Song Xia, Xiang Bai et al. elib (German Aerospace Center) profile →
  2. Learning RoI Transformer for Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Images
    2019 1.0k citations Jian Ding, Nan Xue et al. profile →
  3. Transferring Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for the Scene Classification of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery
    2015 968 citations Gui-Song Xia, Liangpei Zhang et al. profile →
  4. Remote Sensing Image Scene Classification Meets Deep Learning: Challenges, Methods, Benchmarks, and Opportunities
    2020 701 citations Gui-Song Xia et al. profile →
  5. Align Deep Features for Oriented Object Detection
    2021 672 citations Jiaming Han, Jian Ding et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  6. Gliding Vertex on the Horizontal Bounding Box for Multi-Oriented Object Detection
    2020 658 citations Yongchao Xu, Qimeng Wang et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
  7. ReDet: A Rotation-equivariant Detector for Aerial Object Detection
    2021 550 citations Jiaming Han, Jian Ding et al. profile →
  8. Bag-of-Visual-Words Scene Classifier With Local and Global Features for High Spatial Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery
    2016 306 citations Gui-Song Xia, Liangpei Zhang et al. profile →
  9. A survey on vision-based UAV navigation
    2018 284 citations Gui-Song Xia, Liangpei Zhang et al. profile →
  10. UAVid: A semantic segmentation dataset for UAV imagery
    2020 236 citations Gui-Song Xia et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  11. Transformers in Remote Sensing: A Survey
    2023 218 citations Gui-Song Xia et al. profile →
  12. Tiny Object Detection in Aerial Images
    2021 214 citations Wen Yang, Haowen Guo et al. profile →
  13. Detecting tiny objects in aerial images: A normalized Wasserstein distance and a new benchmark
    2022 176 citations Chang Xu, Huai Yu et al. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing profile →
  14. Asymmetric Siamese Networks for Semantic Change Detection in Aerial Images
    2021 172 citations Gui-Song Xia, Zicheng Liu et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  15. An Empirical Study of Remote Sensing Pretraining
    2022 166 citations Bo Du, Gui-Song Xia et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
  16. Decoupling Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation
    2022 140 citations Jian Ding, Nan Xue et al. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gui-Song Xia China 46 9.1k 6.4k 3.3k 1.8k 1.8k 237 14.0k
Gong Cheng China 56 10.8k 1.2× 8.4k 1.3× 2.7k 0.8× 2.9k 1.6× 2.1k 1.1× 185 16.1k
Kun Fu China 51 5.6k 0.6× 3.9k 0.6× 2.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.8× 820 0.5× 285 10.1k
Danfeng Hong China 59 5.7k 0.6× 10.2k 1.6× 1.7k 0.5× 2.2k 1.2× 4.0k 2.2× 247 15.3k
Zhenwei Shi China 47 4.8k 0.5× 5.3k 0.8× 1.2k 0.4× 1.3k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 271 9.8k
Wei Li China 73 7.3k 0.8× 13.2k 2.1× 2.7k 0.8× 3.4k 1.9× 6.3k 3.5× 723 20.6k
Mihai Datcu Germany 36 4.5k 0.5× 3.7k 0.6× 1.9k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 798 0.4× 514 8.2k
Bo Du China 79 8.8k 1.0× 11.8k 1.8× 1.6k 0.5× 5.3k 2.9× 6.0k 3.3× 603 22.3k
Lianru Gao China 53 4.1k 0.5× 9.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.3× 1.6k 0.9× 4.1k 2.3× 277 12.2k
Yanfei Zhong China 66 4.8k 0.5× 8.9k 1.4× 949 0.3× 1.8k 1.0× 4.4k 2.4× 403 13.3k
Bing Zhang China 53 3.6k 0.4× 7.9k 1.2× 1.0k 0.3× 1.8k 1.0× 3.8k 2.1× 320 13.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Gui-Song Xia

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gui-Song Xia

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Gui-Song Xia. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Gui-Song Xia. The network helps show where Gui-Song Xia may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gui-Song Xia

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gui-Song Xia. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gui-Song Xia based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Gui-Song Xia. Gui-Song Xia is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bi, Qi, et al.. (2025). GOOD: Towards domain generalized oriented object detection. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 223. 207–220. 1 indexed citations
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Pang, Chao, et al.. (2025). Vision-Language Modeling Meets Remote Sensing: Models, datasets, and perspectives. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. 13(3). 276–323. 4 indexed citations
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Wang, Ziming, Nan Xue, Ling Lei, Rebecka Jörnsten, & Gui-Song Xia. (2025). Partial Distribution Matching via Partial Wasserstein Adversarial Networks. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 47(9). 7944–7959. 1 indexed citations
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Xiao, Xiongwu, et al.. (2024). High-precision flood detection and mapping via multi-temporal SAR change analysis with semantic token-based transformer. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 131. 103991–103991. 10 indexed citations
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Xu, Yue, et al.. (2024). Toward Generic and Controllable Attacks Against Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–12. 3 indexed citations
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Yu, Huai, et al.. (2024). I2D-Loc++: Camera Pose Tracking in LiDAR Maps With Multi-View Motion Flows. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. 9(9). 8162–8169. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Nan, et al.. (2024). Institutional Environment and Productive Entrepreneurship. Sustainability. 16(24). 11060–11060.
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Pang, Chao, et al.. (2024). HiCD: Change Detection in Quality-Varied Images via Hierarchical Correlation Distillation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–16. 5 indexed citations
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Xu, Lei, et al.. (2024). Learning Cross-Modality High-Resolution Representation for Thermal Small-Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 7 indexed citations
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Xue, Nan, et al.. (2023). HiSup: Accurate polygonal mapping of buildings in satellite imagery with hierarchical supervision. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 198. 284–296. 30 indexed citations
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Xu, Chang, Wen Yang, Guangjun He, et al.. (2023). Drone-based RGBT tiny person detection. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 204. 61–76. 27 indexed citations
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Zhang, Xiang, Lei Yu, Wen Yang, Jianzhuang Liu, & Gui-Song Xia. (2023). Generalizing Event-Based Motion Deblurring in Real-World Scenarios. 10700–10710. 12 indexed citations
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Han, Jiaming, Yuqiang Ren, Jian Ding, et al.. (2022). Expanding Low-Density Latent Regions for Open-Set Object Detection. 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 9581–9590. 40 indexed citations
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Mou, Lichao, et al.. (2022). Anomaly Detection in Aerial Videos With Transformers. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–13. 27 indexed citations
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Guo, Haowen, Fang Xu, Wen Yang, et al.. (2022). Optical-Enhanced Oil Tank Detection in High-Resolution SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–12. 8 indexed citations
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Xia, Gui-Song, et al.. (2021). Conditional Generative ConvNets for Exemplar-Based Texture Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 30. 2461–2475. 10 indexed citations
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Xia, Gui-Song, Zicheng Liu, Bo Du, et al.. (2021). Asymmetric Siamese Networks for Semantic Change Detection in Aerial Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–18. 172 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xu, Yongchao, Qimeng Wang, Yukang Wang, et al.. (2020). Gliding Vertex on the Horizontal Bounding Box for Multi-Oriented Object Detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 43(4). 1452–1459. 658 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ding, Jian, Nan Xue, Yang Long, Gui-Song Xia, & Qikai Lu. (2019). Learning RoI Transformer for Oriented Object Detection in Aerial Images. 2844–2853. 1013 indexed citations breakdown →
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Xia, Gui-Song, Xiang Bai, Jian Ding, et al.. (2018). DOTA: A Large-Scale Dataset for Object Detection in Aerial Images. elib (German Aerospace Center). 3974–3983. 2094 indexed citations breakdown →

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