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RODFormer: High-Precision Design for Rotating Object Detection with Transformers

  • Yaonan Dai,
  • Jiuyang Yu,
  • Dean Zhang,
  • Tianhao Hu and
  • Xiaotao Zheng

29 March 2022

Aiming at the problem of Transformers lack of local spatial receptive field and discontinuous boundary loss in rotating object detection, in this paper, we propose a Transformer-based high-precision rotating object detection model (RODFormer). Firstl...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,244 Views
13 Pages

Rotating Object Detection for Cranes in Transmission Line Scenarios

  • Lingzhi Xia,
  • Songyuan Cao,
  • Yang Cheng,
  • Lei Niu and ,
  • Jun Zhang and
  • Hua Bao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 December 2023

Cranes are pivotal heavy equipment used in the construction of transmission line scenarios. Accurately identifying these cranes and monitoring their status is pressing. The rapid development of computer vision brings new ideas to solve these challeng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
8,322 Views
23 Pages

29 May 2022

Rotated object detection in aerial images is still challenging due to arbitrary orientations, large scale and aspect ratio variations, and extreme density of objects. Existing state-of-the-art rotated object detection methods mainly rely on angle-bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,250 Views
12 Pages

Rotated Object Detection with Circular Gaussian Distribution

  • Hang Xu,
  • Xinyuan Liu,
  • Yike Ma,
  • Zunjie Zhu and ,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Chenggang Yan and
  • Feng Dai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Rotated object detection is a challenging task due to the difficulties of locating the rotated objects and separating them effectively from the background. For rotated object prediction, researchers have explored numerous regression-based and classif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Object Detection, Segmentation and Categorization in Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
983 Views
22 Pages

BIF-RCNN: Fusing Background Information for Rotated Object Detection

  • Jianbin Zhao,
  • Xing Xu,
  • Shaoying Wang,
  • Pengfei Zhang and ,
  • Shengyi Shen,
  • Hui Zeng,
  • Xiangshuai Bu,
  • Yiran Shen,
  • Kaiwen Xue and
  • Yifan Zhu
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

9 February 2026

Rotated object detection aims to achieve precise localization by strictly aligning bounding boxes with object orientations, thereby minimizing background interference. Existing methods predominantly focus on extracting intra-object features within ro...

(This article belongs to the Section Algorithms and Mathematical Models for Computer-Assisted Diagnostic Systems)
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  • Open Access
354 Views
23 Pages

GCGFormer: Geometry-Compatibility-Guided Attention for Rotated Object Detection

  • Huiji Wang,
  • Dandan Huang,
  • Zhi Liu,
  • Zhichao Han and ,
  • Yunhe Qiu and
  • Chunpeng Pan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 September 2026

Rotated object detection in remote sensing imagery requires both semantic understanding and accurate geometric reasoning. Existing geometry-aware detectors commonly introduce geometric information through oriented proposals or decoder queries, making...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Sensors-Based Application for Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
1,783 Views
17 Pages

Lightweight Transformer with Adaptive Rotational Convolutions for Aerial Object Detection

  • Sabina Umirzakova,
  • Shakhnoza Muksimova,
  • Abrayeva Mahliyo Olimjon Qizi and
  • Young Im Cho

7 May 2025

Oriented object detection in aerial imagery presents unique challenges due to the arbitrary orientations, diverse scales, and limited availability of labeled data. In response to these issues, we propose RASST—a lightweight Rotationally Aware S...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,018 Views
20 Pages

1 September 2025

Remote sensing objects often exhibit significant scale variations, high aspect ratios, and diverse orientations. The anisotropic spatial distribution of such objects’ features leads to the conflict between feature representation and boundary re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Target Object Detection and Identification (Third Edition))
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  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,656 Views
19 Pages

RAMC: A Rotation Adaptive Tracker with Motion Constraint for Satellite Video Single-Object Tracking

  • Yuzeng Chen,
  • Yuqi Tang,
  • Te Han,
  • Yuwei Zhang and ,
  • Bin Zou and
  • Huihui Feng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 June 2022

Single-object tracking (SOT) in satellite videos (SVs) is a promising and challenging task in the remote sensing community. In terms of the object itself and the tracking algorithm, the rotation of small-sized objects and tracking drift are common pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Interpretation of Satellite, Aerial, Ground, and Underwater Image and Video Sequences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,433 Views
19 Pages

Constraint Loss for Rotated Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images

  • Luyang Zhang,
  • Haitao Wang,
  • Lingfeng Wang,
  • Chunhong Pan and ,
  • Qiang Liu and
  • Xinyao Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 October 2021

Rotated object detection is an extension of object detection that uses an oriented bounding box instead of a general horizontal bounding box to define the object position. It is widely used in remote sensing images, scene text, and license plate reco...

(This article belongs to the Topic High-Resolution Earth Observation Systems, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,883 Views
9 Pages

A Reduction in the Rotational Velocity Measurement Deviation of the Vortex Beam Superposition State for Tilted Object

  • Hongyang Wang,
  • Yinyin Yan,
  • Zijing Zhang,
  • Hao Liu and ,
  • Xinran Lv,
  • Chengshuai Cui,
  • Hao Yun,
  • Rui Feng and
  • Yuan Zhao
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

In measuring object rotational velocity using vortex beam, the incident light on a tilted object causes spectral broadening, which significantly interferes with the identification of the true rotational Doppler shift (RDS) peak. We employed a velocit...

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  • Open Access
1,255 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2025

Video satellites provide high-temporal-resolution remote sensing images that enable continuous monitoring of the ground for applications such as target tracking and airport traffic detection. In this paper, we address the problems of object occlusion...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Image Processing with Symmetry/Asymmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,895 Views
17 Pages

A New Edge Patch with Rotation Invariance for Object Detection and Pose Estimation

  • Xunwei Tong,
  • Ruifeng Li,
  • Lianzheng Ge,
  • Lijun Zhao and
  • Ke Wang

7 February 2020

Local patch-based methods of object detection and pose estimation are promising. However, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, traditional red-green-blue and depth (RGB-D) patches contain scene interference (foreground occlusion and backgroun...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,772 Views
20 Pages

3 July 2025

In the domain of intelligent inspection, the precise recognition of pointer meter readings is of paramount importance for monitoring equipment conditions. To address the challenges of insufficient robustness and diminished detection accuracy encounte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,159 Views
19 Pages

8 May 2025

Object detection in remote sensing imagery plays a pivotal role in various applications, including aerial surveillance and urban planning. Despite its significance, the task remains challenging due to cluttered backgrounds, the arbitrary orientations...

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  • Open Access
267 Views
35 Pages

22 September 2026

Rotated object detection in remote sensing imagery is a core task of intelligent interpretation, used in urban management, resource surveys, and national defense. Remote sensing targets have large scale gaps, arbitrary orientations, and rotational sy...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
233 Views
24 Pages

Rotation-Equivariant Feature Learning and Dual-Head Decoupling for Oriented Remote Sensing Object Detection

  • Xue Zhang,
  • Yanxia Wu,
  • Dan Lin,
  • Guoyin Zhang and ,
  • Changting Shi and
  • Xueheng Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 October 2026

Oriented remote sensing object detection (ORSOD) remains challenging because objects usually appear at arbitrary rotations, with large aspect-ratio variations and dense spatial layouts. Although recent detectors have achieved notable progress, most s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing for Geospatial Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,957 Views
21 Pages

SA3Det: Detecting Rotated Objects via Pixel-Level Attention and Adaptive Labels Assignment

  • Wenyong Wang,
  • Yuanzheng Cai,
  • Zhiming Luo,
  • Wei Liu and ,
  • Tao Wang and
  • Zuoyong Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 July 2024

Remote sensing of rotated objects often encounters numerous small and dense objects. To tackle small-object neglect and inaccurate angle predictions in elongated objects, we propose SA3Det, a novel method employing Pixel-Level Attention and Adaptive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Target Recognition and Detection: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,958 Views
26 Pages

10 September 2021

Oriented object detection in remote sensing images (RSIs) is a significant yet challenging Earth Vision task, as the objects in RSIs usually emerge with complicated backgrounds, arbitrary orientations, multi-scale distributions, and dramatic aspect r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning and Computer Vision in Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,717 Views
28 Pages

2 February 2020

A set of sufficient conditions for the well posedness and the convergence of the finite element approximation of three-dimensional time-harmonic electromagnetic boundary value problems involving non-conducting rotating objects with stationary boundar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Finite Elements and Symmetry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,572 Views
19 Pages

10 November 2024

Existing rotated object detection methods usually use angular parameters to represent the object orientation. However, due to the symmetry and periodicity of these angular parameters, a well-known boundary discontinuity problem often results. More sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,104 Views
26 Pages

Fish Face Identification Based on Rotated Object Detection: Dataset and Exploration

  • Danyang Li,
  • Houcheng Su,
  • Kailin Jiang,
  • Dan Liu and
  • Xuliang Duan

25 August 2022

At present, fish farming still uses manual identification methods. With the rapid development of deep learning, the application of computer vision in agriculture and farming to achieve agricultural intelligence has become a current research hotspot....

(This article belongs to the Section Fishery Facilities, Equipment, and Information Technology)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
6,841 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2018

Geospatial object detection is a fundamental but challenging problem in the remote sensing community. Although deep learning has shown its power in extracting discriminative features, there is still room for improvement in its detection performance,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Earth Observations Analytics: Leveraging Radar and Optical Together)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,106 Views
27 Pages

24 March 2026

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery plays a vital role in critical applications such as military reconnaissance and disaster monitoring. These applications require high detection accuracy. Therefore, rotated object detection has gained increasing...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,068 Views
22 Pages

30 October 2021

In recent years, object detection has shown excellent results on a large number of annotated data, but when there is a discrepancy between the annotated data and the real test data, the performance of the trained object detection model is often degra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing Imagery for Urban Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,938 Views
29 Pages

19 October 2021

Rotation search and point cloud registration are two fundamental problems in robotics, geometric vision, and remote sensing, which aim to estimate the rotation and transformation between the 3D vector sets and point clouds, respectively. Due to the p...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
933 Views
26 Pages

24 April 2026

Rotated object detection is widely adopted in remote sensing to handle arbitrary object orientations and improve localization accuracy. However, existing methods still suffer from limited global context modeling, degraded feature representation under...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1,288 Views
19 Pages

Rotation- and Scale-Invariant Object Detection Using Compressed 2D Voting with Sparse Point-Pair Screening

  • Chenbo Shi,
  • Yue Yu,
  • Gongwei Zhang,
  • Shaojia Yan and ,
  • Changsheng Zhu,
  • Yanhong Cheng and
  • Chun Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The Generalized Hough Transform (GHT) is a powerful method for rigid shape detection under rotation, scaling, translation, and partial occlusion conditions, but its four-dimensional accumulator incurs prohibitive computational and memory demands that...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,689 Views
14 Pages

5 February 2024

A mathematical model for an electric field induced by an angularly oscillating magnetic dipole was proposed with magnetic vector potential to analyze the characteristics of the electric field induced by a rotating and angularly oscillating magnetic o...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,352 Views
34 Pages

28 December 2025

Effectively leveraging multi-source unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) observations for reliable object recognition is often compromised by environmental extremes (e.g., occlusion and low illumination) and the inherent physical discrepancies between modal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in SAR, Optical, Hyperspectral and Infrared Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,544 Views
22 Pages

Multi-Objective Instantaneous Center of Rotation Optimization Using Sensors Feedback for Navigation in Self-Reconfigurable Pavement Sweeping Robot

  • Lim Yi,
  • Anh Vu Le,
  • Joel Chan Cheng Hoong,
  • Abdullah Aamir Hayat and ,
  • Balakrishnan Ramalingam,
  • Rajesh Elara Mohan,
  • Kristor Leong,
  • Karthikeyan Elangovan,
  • Minh Tran and
  • Phan Van Duc
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

2 September 2022

Pavement in outdoor settings is an unstructured environment with sharp corners, varying widths, and pedestrian activity that poses navigation challenges while cleaning for autonomous systems. In this work, an approach towards navigating without colli...

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  • Open Access
2,822 Views
46 Pages

3 April 2022

The paper presents the result of a study that can be included in the broader field of research aimed at increasing the performance of automatic motion control systems. The main contribution of the article is the comparative study of three control met...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Application of Dynamical Systems in Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
3,157 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2022

The diffractive deep neural network (D2NN) can efficiently accomplish 2D object recognition based on rapid optical manipulation. Moreover, the multiple-view D2NN array (MDA) possesses the obvious advantage of being able to effectively achieve 3D obje...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision and Sensor Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,467 Views
17 Pages

RiDOP: A Rotation-Invariant Detector with Simple Oriented Proposals in Remote Sensing Images

  • Chongyang Wei,
  • Weiping Ni,
  • Yao Qin,
  • Junzheng Wu and ,
  • Han Zhang,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Kenan Cheng and
  • Hui Bian
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 January 2023

Compared with general object detection with horizontal bounding boxes in natural images, oriented object detection in remote sensing images is an active and challenging research topic as objects are usually displayed in arbitrary orientations. To mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Artificial Intelligence Algorithm for the Analysis of Remote Sensing Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,181 Views
32 Pages

25 July 2024

In this paper, we propose a Bayesian Optimization (BO)-based strategy using the Gaussian Process (GP) for feature detection of a known but non-cooperative space object by a chaser with a monocular camera and a single-beam LIDAR in a close-proximity o...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,967 Views
15 Pages

13 September 2024

Object detection can accurately identify and locate targets in images, serving basic industries such as agricultural monitoring and urban planning. However, targets in remote sensing images have random rotation angles, which hinders the accuracy of r...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
463 Views
26 Pages

5 August 2026

Accurate detection of small, rotated objects in practical scenarios such as remote sensing imagery and autonomous driving remains a critical challenge. Existing methods often struggle to balance detection accuracy and real-time performance, and face...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,947 Views
19 Pages

14 December 2022

The detection of arbitrarily rotated objects in aerial images is challenging due to the highly complex backgrounds and the multiple angles of objects. Existing detectors are not robust relative to the varying angle of objects because the CNNs do not...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence-Driven Methods for Remote Sensing Target and Object Detection)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,977 Views
18 Pages

A Rotating Object Detector with Convolutional Dynamic Adaptive Matching

  • Leibo Yu,
  • Yu Zhou,
  • Xianglong Li,
  • Shiquan Hu and
  • Dongling Jing

11 January 2024

Standard convolution sliding along a fixed direction in common convolutional neural networks (CNNs) is inconsistent with the direction of aerial targets, making it difficult to effectively extract features with high-aspect-ratio and arbitrary directi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning in Satellite Remote Sensing Applications)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,049 Views
20 Pages

22 March 2022

Arbitrarily oriented object detection has recently attracted increasing attention for its wide applications in remote sensing. However, it is still a challenge for detection algorithms because of complex scenes, small size, rotation, densely parked....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
735 Views
12 Pages

26 December 2025

Objectivity is a fundamental requirement for vortex identification, ensuring that vortex structures observed remain invariant under changes in the reference frame. However, although most conventional vortex identification methods, including Liutex, a...

(This article belongs to the Section Turbulence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,135 Views
32 Pages

14 December 2025

Detection of rotating targets in complex remote sensing scenarios often suffers from angular inconsistencies and boundary jitter, especially for small-to-medium objects with rapid pose changes or indistinct boundaries in dense environments. To addres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Object Detection Based on Remote Sensing Images)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,861 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2022

Compared with a monoculture planting mode, the practice of crop rotations improves fertilizer efficiency and increases crop yield. Large-scale crop rotation monitoring relies on the results of crop classification using remote sensing technology. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
5,350 Views
20 Pages

A2S-Det: Efficiency Anchor Matching in Aerial Image Oriented Object Detection

  • Zhifeng Xiao,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Qiao Wan,
  • Xiaowei Tan and ,
  • Chuan Xu and
  • Fanfan Xia
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 December 2020

Object detection is a challenging task in aerial images, where many objects have large aspect ratios and are densely arranged. Most anchor-based rotating detectors assign anchors for ground-truth objects by a fixed restriction of the rotation Interse...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
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  • Open Access
3,560 Views
14 Pages

4 June 2021

Despite their versatility in treating irregular geometries, the raster methods have received limited attention in solving packing problems involving rotatable objects. In addition, raster approximation allows the use of unique performance metrics and...

(This article belongs to the Collection Heuristic Algorithms in Engineering and Applied Sciences)
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  • Open Access
1,054 Views
19 Pages

4 February 2026

Future climate change poses unprecedented challenges to agricultural production worldwide. Therefore, designing region-specific rotation patterns is crucial for achieving synergies among multiple objectives, including agricultural productivity and ec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adaptations and Responses of Cropping Systems to Climate Change)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,602 Views
19 Pages

22 January 2022

Fast and accurate acquisition of the outline of rural buildings on remote sensing images is an efficient method to monitor illegal rural buildings. The traditional object detection method produces useless background information when detecting rural b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Natural Resource and Water Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,642 Views
20 Pages

A Foreign Object Detection Method for Belt Conveyors Based on an Improved YOLOX Model

  • Rongbin Yao,
  • Peng Qi,
  • Dezheng Hua,
  • Xu Zhang and ,
  • He Lu and
  • Xinhua Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

As one of the main pieces of equipment in coal transportation, the belt conveyor with its detection system is an important area of research for the development of intelligent mines. Occurrences of non-coal foreign objects making contact with belts ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Image and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,791 Views
21 Pages

A SAW Wireless Passive Sensing System for Rotating Metal Parts

  • Yue Zhou,
  • Jing Ding,
  • Bingji Wang,
  • Feng Gao and ,
  • Shurong Dong and
  • Hao Jin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 October 2024

Passive wireless surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors are very useful for on-site monitoring of the working status of machines in complex environments, such as high-temperature rotating objects. For rotating parts, it is difficult to realize real-time...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,210 Views
39 Pages

SAR-DRBNet: Adaptive Feature Weaving and Algebraically Equivalent Aggregation for High-Precision Rotated SAR Detection

  • Lanfang Lei,
  • Sheng Chang,
  • Zhongzhen Sun,
  • Xinli Zheng and ,
  • Changyu Liao,
  • Wenjun Wei,
  • Long Ma and
  • Ping Zhong
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 February 2026

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is widely used for target detection in complex backgrounds and adverse weather conditions. However, high-precision detection of rotated small targets remains challenging due to severe speckle noise, significant...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Methods and Applications in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) Image Target Detection and Recognition)

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