Xiaowo Xu

1.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
32 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Xiaowo Xu is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaowo Xu has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 16 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Xiaowo Xu's work include Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (20 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (14 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (12 papers). Xiaowo Xu is often cited by papers focused on Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (20 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (14 papers) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (12 papers). Xiaowo Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Xiaowo Xu's co-authors include Xiaoling Zhang, Tianwen Zhang, Junren Shi, Shunjun Wei, Tianjiao Zeng, Xu Zhan, Xiao Ke, Jianwei Li, Hao Su and Yue Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

In The Last Decade

Xiaowo Xu

27 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

SAR Ship Detection Dataset (SSDD): Official Release and Comprehensive Data Analysis

2021 416 citations Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang et al. Remote Sensing profile →
Lite-YOLOv5: A Lightweight Deep Learning Detector for On-Board Ship Detection in Large-Scene Sentinel-1 SAR Images

2022 172 citations Xiaowo Xu, Xiaoling Zhang et al. Remote Sensing profile →
HOG-ShipCLSNet: A Novel Deep Learning Network With HOG Feature Fusion for SAR Ship Classification

2021 160 citations Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang 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						Papers	Cites
Xiaowo Xu China	12	686	541	229	155	133	32	1.0k
Zhao Lin China	4	741 1.1×	557 1.0×	193 0.8×	248 1.6×	156 1.2×	5	1.0k
Nengyuan Liu China	13	651 0.9×	548 1.0×	145 0.6×	172 1.1×	150 1.1×	21	1.1k
Xiangwei Xing China	17	704 1.0×	327 0.6×	216 0.9×	226 1.5×	215 1.6×	45	976
Miao Kang China	10	578 0.8×	452 0.8×	138 0.6×	212 1.4×	135 1.0×	21	971
Jiaqiu Ai China	16	640 0.9×	308 0.6×	182 0.8×	139 0.9×	166 1.2×	49	957
Huanxin Zou China	13	664 1.0×	324 0.6×	177 0.8×	218 1.4×	210 1.6×	41	965
Boli Xiong China	17	919 1.3×	719 1.3×	201 0.9×	226 1.5×	365 2.7×	65	1.5k
Jianwei Li China	13	1.3k 1.8×	1.0k 1.9×	413 1.8×	268 1.7×	199 1.5×	38	1.8k
Qizhe Qu China	13	765 1.1×	380 0.7×	163 0.7×	162 1.0×	87 0.7×	22	1.1k
Juanping Zhao China	13	450 0.7×	590 1.1×	68 0.3×	152 1.0×	352 2.6×	20	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Xiaowo Xu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaowo Xu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaowo Xu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaowo Xu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaowo Xu 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 Xiaowo Xu. Xiaowo Xu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Xu, Yanqin, Xiaoling Zhang, Shunjun Wei, et al.. (2025). A Fast Lq Sparsity-Driven Method With Adaptive-Focusing Framework for mmWave Automotive Radar Super-Resolution Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(6). 7874–7897. 1 indexed citations

Ke, Han, et al.. (2025). SLA-Net: A Novel Sea–Land Aware Network for Accurate SAR Ship Detection Guided by Hierarchical Attention Mechanism. Remote Sensing. 17(21). 3576–3576.

Xu, Xiaowo, et al.. (2025). MambaShadowDet: A High-Speed and High-Accuracy Moving Target Shadow Detection Network for Video SAR. Remote Sensing. 17(2). 214–214. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Xiaowo, Xiaoling Zhang, Shunjun Wei, et al.. (2025). DiffSARShipInst: Diffusion model for ship instance segmentation from synthetic aperture radar imagery. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. 223. 440–455. 6 indexed citations

Xu, Xiaowo, et al.. (2025). STCADeNet: Spatial-temporal context awareness for video SAR shadow detection. Expert Systems with Applications. 286. 127881–127881.

Xu, Yanqin, Xiaoling Zhang, Xiaowo Xu, et al.. (2025). Enhancing mmWave Automotive Forward-Looking MIMO-SAR Imaging by Space–Time Sparsity. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. 61(4). 10194–10214. 1 indexed citations

Zeng, Tianjiao, Tianwen Zhang, Xiaowo Xu, et al.. (2024). CFAR-DP-FW: A CFAR-Guided Dual-Polarization Fusion Framework for Large-Scene SAR Ship Detection. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 17. 7242–7259. 21 indexed citations

Zeng, Tianjiao, Wensi Zhang, Xu Zhan, et al.. (2024). A Novel Multimodal Fusion Framework Based on Point Cloud Registration for Near-Field 3D SAR Perception. Remote Sensing. 16(6). 952–952. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Xiaoling, Xiaowo Xu, Yanqin Xu, et al.. (2024). GNN-JFL: Graph Neural Network for Video SAR Shadow Tracking With Joint Motion-Appearance Feature Learning. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–17. 8 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaowo, Xiaoling Zhang, Tianwen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Distribution-Based Anchor Assignment and Comprehensive Score Voting With Distance Penalty IoU Loss for SAR Remote Sensing Ship Detection. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 73. 1–18. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Yanqin, Xiaoling Zhang, Shunjun Wei, et al.. (2024). Joint Generalized Lq and Convolutional Regularization: Enhancing mmW Automotive SAR Sparse Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 2 indexed citations

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Pu, Wei, Xiaowo Xu, Yulin Huang, et al.. (2023). HDSS-Net: A Novel Hierarchically Designed Network With Spherical Space Classifier for Ship Recognition in SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–20. 22 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoling, Shunjun Wei, Junren Shi, et al.. (2023). Scale in Scale for SAR Ship Instance Segmentation. Remote Sensing. 15(3). 629–629. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoling, et al.. (2022). ShadowDeNet: A Moving Target Shadow Detection Network for Video SAR. Remote Sensing. 14(2). 320–320. 17 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaowo, Xiaoling Zhang, Junren Shi, et al.. (2022). A Group-Wise Feature Enhancement-and-Fusion Network with Dual-Polarization Feature Enrichment for SAR Ship Detection. Remote Sensing. 14(20). 5276–5276. 60 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiaoling, et al.. (2022). RBFA-Net: A Rotated Balanced Feature-Aligned Network for Rotated SAR Ship Detection and Classification. Remote Sensing. 14(14). 3345–3345. 31 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaowo, Xiaoling Zhang, & Tianwen Zhang. (2022). Lite-YOLOv5: A Lightweight Deep Learning Detector for On-Board Ship Detection in Large-Scene Sentinel-1 SAR Images. Remote Sensing. 14(4). 1018–1018. 172 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhang, Xiaoling, Tianwen Zhang, Xu Zhan, et al.. (2022). A Sparse-Model-Driven Network for Efficient and High-Accuracy InSAR Phase Filtering. Remote Sensing. 14(11). 2614–2614. 5 indexed citations

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Xu, Xiaowo, et al.. (2022). Shadow-Background-Noise 3D Spatial Decomposition Using Sparse Low-Rank Gaussian Properties for Video-SAR Moving Target Shadow Enhancement. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 19. 1–5. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Tianwen, Xiaoling Zhang, Jianwei Li, et al.. (2021). SAR Ship Detection Dataset (SSDD): Official Release and Comprehensive Data Analysis. Remote Sensing. 13(18). 3690–3690. 416 indexed citations breakdown →

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