📚 Selected Publications

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Preprint

Preprint 2025
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ATRNet-STAR: A Large Dataset and Benchmark Towards Remote Sensing Object Recognition in the Wild (Preprint)

Yongxiang Liu*, Weijie Li, Li Liu*, Jie Zhou, Bowen Peng, Yafei Song, Xuying Xiong, Wei Yang, Tianpeng Liu, Zhen Liu, Xiang Li*

[Paper] [BibTex] [知乎] [Code]

ATRNet-STAR dataset contains 40 distinct target types, collected with the aim of replacing the outdated though widely used MSTAR dataset and making a significant contribution to the advancement of SAR ATR research.

Journal

TIP 2025
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SARATR-X: Toward Building a Foundation Model for SAR Target Recognition (TIP)

Weijie Li, Wei Yang*, Yunan Hou, Li Liu*, Yongxiang Liu*, and Xiang Li

[Paper] [BibTex] [知乎] [Code]

SARATR-X is a foundation model, which learns generalizable representations via self-supervised learning from large-scale unlabelled data and provides a corner stone for generic SAR target detection and classification.

ISPRS Journal 2024
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Predicting Gradient is Better: Exploring Self-Supervised Learning for SAR ATR with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (ISPRS)

Weijie Li, Wei Yang, Tianpeng Liu, Yuenan Hou, Yuxuan Li, Zhen Liu, Yongxiang Liu*, Li Liu

[Paper] [BibTex] [知乎] [Code]

SAR-JEPA is a joint-embedding predictive architecture for SAR ATR that leverages local masked patches to predict the multi-scale SAR gradient representations of an unseen context.

📃 Other Publications

SARDet-100K: Towards Open-Source Benchmark and ToolKit for Large-Scale SAR Object Detection

NeurIPS Spotlight, 2024
Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li*, Weijie Li, Qibin Hou, Li Liu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang*

[Paper] [BibTex] [知乎] [Code]


Hierarchical Disentanglement-Alignment Network for Robust SAR Vehicle Recognition

J-STARS, 2023
Weijie Li, Wei Yang*, Wenpeng Zhang, Tianpeng Liu*, Yongxiang Liu*, and Li Liu
[Paper] [BibTex] [知乎] [Code]


Discovering and Explaining the Noncausality of Deep Learning in SAR ATR

GRSL, 2023
Weijie Li, Wei Yang*, Wenpeng Zhang, Tianpeng Liu, Yongxiang Liu, Li Liu
[Paper] [BibTex] [知乎] [Code]