Zongjie Cao

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
136 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Zongjie Cao is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Zongjie Cao has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 51 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Zongjie Cao's work include Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (73 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (37 papers) and Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (20 papers). Zongjie Cao is often cited by papers focused on Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques (73 papers), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques (37 papers) and Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques (20 papers). Zongjie Cao collaborates with scholars based in China and Singapore. Zongjie Cao's co-authors include Zongyong Cui, Nengyuan Liu, Yiming Pi, Qi Li, Jianyu Yang, Jilan Feng, Sihang Dang, Xiaoya Wang, Zhou Zhi and Rui Min and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

In The Last Decade

Zongjie Cao

127 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Dense Attention Pyramid Networks for Multi-Scale Ship Detection in SAR Images

2019 407 citations Zongyong Cui, Zongjie Cao et al. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing profile →
Ship Detection in Large-Scale SAR Images Via Spatial Shuffle-Group Enhance Attention

2020 222 citations Zongyong Cui, Xiaoya Wang 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
Zongjie Cao China	24	1.5k	909	405	402	348	136	2.4k
Zongyong Cui China	21	1.2k 0.8×	850 0.9×	366 0.9×	371 0.9×	248 0.7×	95	1.9k
Gongjian Wen China	27	1.3k 0.8×	824 0.9×	433 1.1×	399 1.0×	402 1.2×	114	2.4k
Yan Wu China	24	1.0k 0.7×	570 0.6×	224 0.6×	248 0.6×	671 1.9×	141	1.8k
Shunjun Wei China	32	3.0k 2.0×	1.7k 1.9×	599 1.5×	582 1.4×	482 1.4×	217	4.3k
Zongxu Pan China	24	1.2k 0.8×	978 1.1×	397 1.0×	292 0.7×	739 2.1×	79	2.2k
Xueru Bai China	29	2.1k 1.4×	301 0.3×	487 1.2×	309 0.8×	126 0.4×	112	2.6k
Daiyin Zhu China	26	2.1k 1.4×	301 0.3×	254 0.6×	190 0.5×	180 0.5×	273	2.6k
Xiangguang Leng China	20	1.9k 1.2×	1.2k 1.3×	524 1.3×	228 0.6×	380 1.1×	56	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Zongjie Cao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zongjie Cao

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

All Works

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Pi, Yiming, et al.. (2025). Stroke Patterns Guided End-to-End In-Air Handwriting Recognition Using mmWave Radar. IEEE Sensors Journal. 25(16). 31830–31842.

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2025). Scene Adaptive SAR Incremental Target Detection via Context-Aware Attention and Gaussian-Box Similarity Metric. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–17. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2025). Smooth Distribution and Depth-Focused Distillation-Based Class-Incremental Learning for SAR Target Detection. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 63. 1–16. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2024). Deep Neural Network Explainability Enhancement via Causality-Erasing SHAP Method for SAR Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–15. 1 indexed citations

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2024). Joint Position Estimation for Hand Motion Using MIMO FMCW mmWave Radar. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(3). 2838–2853. 2 indexed citations

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2024). Feature Aggregation and Compensation-Based Domain Adaptation Framework for Cross-Resolution Target Recognition in SAR Imagery. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 62. 1–16. 3 indexed citations

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2024). SAR Incremental Automatic Target Recognition Based on Mutual Information Maximization. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 21. 1–5. 4 indexed citations

Dang, Sihang, Zongyong Cui, Zongjie Cao, Yiming Pi, & Xiaoyi Feng. (2023). Distribution Reliability Assessment-Based Incremental Learning for Automatic Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–13. 7 indexed citations

Cui, Zongyong, et al.. (2023). Density Coverage-Based Exemplar Selection for Incremental SAR Automatic Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 61. 1–13. 6 indexed citations

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Min, Rui, et al.. (2022). An Aperture Adaptive Scale Transform of Terahertz Radar Imaging Algorithm. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 72. 1–11. 5 indexed citations

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Cui, Zongyong, Xiaoya Wang, Nengyuan Liu, Zongjie Cao, & Jianyu Yang. (2020). Ship Detection in Large-Scale SAR Images Via Spatial Shuffle-Group Enhance Attention. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 59(1). 379–391. 222 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dang, Sihang, Zongjie Cao, Zongyong Cui, Yiming Pi, & Nengyuan Liu. (2020). Class Boundary Exemplar Selection Based Incremental Learning for Automatic Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 58(8). 5782–5792. 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Xing, Rui Min, Zongyong Cui, & Zongjie Cao. (2020). Micro Gesture Recognition with Terahertz Radar Based on Diagonal Profile of Range-Doppler Map. 770–773. 3 indexed citations

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Min, Rui, et al.. (2019). A Gradually Distilled CNN for SAR Target Recognition. IEEE Access. 7. 42190–42200. 57 indexed citations

15.

Dang, Sihang, Zongjie Cao, Zongyong Cui, Yiming Pi, & Nengyuan Liu. (2019). Open Set Incremental Learning for Automatic Target Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(7). 4445–4456. 71 indexed citations

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Liu, Nengyuan, Zongjie Cao, Zongyong Cui, Yiming Pi, & Sihang Dang. (2019). Multi-Scale Proposal Generation for Ship Detection in SAR Images. Remote Sensing. 11(5). 526–526. 37 indexed citations

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Liu, Nengyuan, Zongjie Cao, Zongyong Cui, Yiming Pi, & Sihang Dang. (2019). Multi-Layer Abstraction Saliency for Airport Detection in SAR Images. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 57(12). 9820–9831. 9 indexed citations

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Feng, Jilan, Zongjie Cao, & Yiming Pi. (2010). A G0 Statistical Model Based Level Set Approach for SAR Image Segmentation. 1–4. 4 indexed citations

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Cao, Zongjie. (2009). Simulation of radar display based on GL Studio. Electronic Design Engineering. 1 indexed citations

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Cao, Zongjie. (2009). Research on the Simulation of Access to GPS Satellites Based on STK/Matlab. Science Technology and Engineering. 1 indexed citations

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