Xiangguang Leng

3.0k total citations · 5 hit papers
56 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Xiangguang Leng is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Oceanography and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiangguang Leng has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 15 papers in Oceanography and 13 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Xiangguang Leng's work include Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (39 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (38 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (12 papers). Xiangguang Leng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (39 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (38 papers) and Underwater Acoustics Research (12 papers). Xiangguang Leng collaborates with scholars based in China and Finland. Xiangguang Leng's co-authors include Kefeng Ji, Zhao Lin, Gangyao Kuang, Miao Kang, Zhongzhen Sun, Boli Xiong, Huanxin Zou, Xiangwei Xing, Huanxin Zou and Shilin Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Sensors.

In The Last Decade

Xiangguang Leng

56 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Squeeze and Excitation Rank Faster R-CNN for Ship Detecti... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2017 2021 2021 2025 100 200 300
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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. Squeeze and Excitation Rank Faster R-CNN for Ship Detection in SAR Images
    2018 331 citations Zhao Lin, Kefeng Ji et al. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters profile →
  2. Contextual Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network with Multilayer Fusion for SAR Ship Detection
    2017 290 citations Miao Kang, Kefeng Ji et al. Remote Sensing profile →
  3. BiFA-YOLO: A Novel YOLO-Based Method for Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection in High-Resolution SAR Images
    2021 218 citations Zhongzhen Sun, Xiangguang Leng et al. Remote Sensing profile →
  4. An Anchor-Free Detection Method for Ship Targets in High-Resolution SAR Images
    2021 193 citations Zhongzhen Sun, Xiangguang Leng et al. profile →
  5. Arbitrary-Direction SAR Ship Detection Method for Multiscale Imbalance
    2025 44 citations Zhongzhen Sun, Xiangguang Leng et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiangguang Leng China 20 1.9k 1.2k 524 523 380 56 2.5k
Hao Su China 17 1.5k 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 331 0.6× 427 0.8× 289 0.8× 39 2.3k
Zongyong Cui China 21 1.2k 0.7× 850 0.7× 366 0.7× 251 0.5× 248 0.7× 95 1.9k
Zongxu Pan China 24 1.2k 0.6× 978 0.8× 397 0.8× 219 0.4× 739 1.9× 79 2.2k
Bin Lei China 21 1.0k 0.5× 719 0.6× 364 0.7× 219 0.4× 559 1.5× 97 2.1k
Gui Gao China 25 1.7k 0.9× 616 0.5× 256 0.5× 449 0.9× 447 1.2× 123 2.3k
Jianwei Li China 13 1.3k 0.7× 1.0k 0.8× 268 0.5× 413 0.8× 199 0.5× 38 1.8k
Kefeng Ji China 32 2.9k 1.5× 1.6k 1.3× 887 1.7× 775 1.5× 776 2.0× 150 4.1k
Deliang Xiang China 29 1.3k 0.7× 751 0.6× 324 0.6× 181 0.3× 731 1.9× 107 2.1k
Boli Xiong China 17 919 0.5× 719 0.6× 226 0.4× 201 0.4× 365 1.0× 65 1.5k
Lingjun Zhao China 19 844 0.4× 793 0.7× 208 0.4× 148 0.3× 364 1.0× 68 1.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiangguang Leng

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2024). Lightweight Ship Detection Network for SAR Range-Compressed Domain. Remote Sensing. 16(17). 3284–3284. 7 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2024). A ship detection method based on YOLOv7 in range-compressed SAR data. IET conference proceedings.. 2023(47). 948–952. 2 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2024). RCShip: A Dataset Dedicated to Ship Detection in Range-Compressed SAR Data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 16 indexed citations
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Zhang, Linbin, Xiangguang Leng, Sijia Feng, et al.. (2023). Azimuth-Aware Discriminative Representation Learning for Semi-Supervised Few-Shot SAR Vehicle Recognition. Remote Sensing. 15(2). 331–331. 20 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2023). Refocusing Swing Ships in SAR Imagery Based on Spatial-Variant Defocusing Property. Remote Sensing. 15(12). 3159–3159. 6 indexed citations
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Lei, Yu, Xiangguang Leng, Zhongzhen Sun, & Kefeng Ji. (2022). Construction and Recognition Performance Analysis of Wide-swath SAR Maritime Large Moving Ships Dataset. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations
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Xiong, Boli, Zhongzhen Sun, Jin Wang, Xiangguang Leng, & Kefeng Ji. (2022). A Lightweight Model for Ship Detection and Recognition in Complex-Scene SAR Images. Remote Sensing. 14(23). 6053–6053. 44 indexed citations
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Zhang, Linbin, Xiangguang Leng, Sijia Feng, et al.. (2021). Domain Knowledge Powered Two-Stream Deep Network for Few-Shot SAR Vehicle Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–15. 87 indexed citations
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Yu, Lei, Xiangguang Leng, & Kefeng Ji. (2021). Marine Ship Target Detection in SAR Image Based on Google Earth Engine. 8574–8577. 3 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, Kefeng Ji, Boli Xiong, & Gangyao Kuang. (2021). Complex Signal Kurtosis—Indicator of Ship Target Signature in SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 60. 1–12. 9 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2020). Sea-land Segmentation Method for SAR Images Based on Improved BiSeNet. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 14 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2020). Statistical Modeling Methods of Single-channel Complex-valued SAR Images for Ship Detection. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(3). 477–496. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhao, Kefeng Ji, Xiangguang Leng, & Gangyao Kuang. (2018). Squeeze and Excitation Rank Faster R-CNN for Ship Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 16(5). 751–755. 331 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lin, Zhao, Kefeng Ji, Miao Kang, Xiangguang Leng, & Huanxin Zou. (2017). Deep Convolutional Highway Unit Network for SAR Target Classification With Limited Labeled Training Data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 14(7). 1091–1095. 194 indexed citations
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Ji, Kefeng, Xiangguang Leng, Haibo Wang, Shilin Zhou, & Huanxin Zou. (2017). Ship detection using weighted SVM and M-CHI decomposition in compact polarimetric SAR imagery. 890–893. 9 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, Kefeng Ji, Shilin Zhou, & Huanxin Zou. (2017). Noncircularity parameters and their potential in ship detection from high resolution SAR imagery. 1876–1879. 16 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2016). Spaceborne Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Ship Detection. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Ji, Kefeng, et al.. (2016). An land masking algorithm for ship detection in SAR images. 925–928. 5 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, et al.. (2016). A novel adaptive ship detection method for spaceborne SAR imagery. 108–111. 3 indexed citations
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Leng, Xiangguang, Kefeng Ji, Kai Yang, & Huanxin Zou. (2015). A Bilateral CFAR Algorithm for Ship Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 12(7). 1536–1540. 209 indexed citations

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