📚 Publications

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Journal

IJCV 2024
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LSKNet: A foundation lightweight backbone for remote sensing (IJCV)

Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li#, Yimian Dai, Qibin Hou, Li Liu, Yongxiang Liu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang#

[Paper] [BibTex] [Demo Video] [Code]

LSKNet can dynamically adjust its large spatial receptive field to better model the ranging context of various categories of objects in remote sensing scenarios.

CVMJ 2024
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APF-GAN:Exploring asymmetric pre-training and fine-tuning strategy for conditional generativeadversarial network (CVMJ)

Yuxuan Li, Lingfeng Yang, Xiang Li#

[Paper] [Code]

The APF-GAN model improves GAN-based image segmentation, surpassing GauGAN and winning the Second Jittor AI Challenge.

Conference

NeurIPS 2024
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SM3Det: A Unified Model for Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Object Detection (AAAI 2026 Oral)

Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li#, Yunheng Li, Yicheng Zhang, Yimian Dai, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng and Jian Yang#

[Paper] [BibTex] [Code] [知乎专栏]

This paper introduces SM3Det, a unified remote sensing model designed to handle multi-modal, multi-task object detection by leveraging a sparse Mixture-of-Experts backbone and dynamic optimization.

NeurIPS 2024
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SARDet-100K: Towards Open-Source Benchmark and ToolKit for Large-Scale SAR Object Detection (NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight)

Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li#, Weijie Li, Qibin Hou, Li Liu, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang#

[Paper] [BibTex] [Code] [知乎专栏]

SARDet-100K, the first large-scale multi-class SAR object detection dataset, along with the proposed MSFA pretraining framework, addresses domain and model disparities, significantly improving SAR object detection performance and advancing the field.

ICCV 2023
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Large Selective Kernel Network for Remote Sensing Object Detection (ICCV 2023)

Yuxuan Li, Qibin Hou, Zhaohui Zheng, Ming-Ming Cheng, Jian Yang#, Xiang Li#

[Paper] [BibTex] [Demo Video] [Report/Forum] [Code] [知乎专栏]

LSKNet can dynamically adjust its large spatial receptive field to better model the ranging context of various categories of objects in remote sensing scenarios.

ACCV 2022
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Spatial group-wise enhance: Enhancing semantic feature learning in CNN (ACCV 2022)

Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li#, Jian Yang

[Paper] [BibTex] [[Code]] [知乎专栏]

The Spatial Group-wise Enhance (SGE) module improves CNN performance by generating accurate spatial attention masks through local-global similarity within semantic groups, achieving notable accuracy gains on ImageNet and COCO tasks with minimal overhead.

📃 Other Publications

Visual Instruction Pretraining for Domain-Specific Foundation Models

Preprint, 2025
Yuxuan Li, Yicheng Zhang, Wenhao Tang, Yimian Dai, Ming-Ming Cheng, Xiang Li#, and Jian Yang# [Paper]


RSAR: Restricted State Angle Resolver and Rotated SAR Benchmark

CVPR, 2025
Xin Zhang, Xue Yang, Yuxuan Li, Jian Yang, Ming-Ming Cheng, Xiang Li
[Paper]


Unbiased Region-Language Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Dense Prediction

ICCV, 2025
Yunheng Li, Yuxuan Li, Quansheng Zeng, Wenhai Wang, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng
[Paper]


Strip R-CNN: Large Strip Convolution for Remote Sensing Object Detection

AAAI, 2026
Xinbin Yuan, Zhaohui Zheng, Yuxuan Li, Xialei Liu, Li Liu, Xiang Li, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng
[Paper]


DenoDet V2: Phase-Amplitude Cross Denoising for SAR Object Detection

AAAI, 2026
Kang Ni, Minrui Zou, Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li, Kehua Guo, Ming-Ming Cheng, Yimian Dai [Paper]


GrokLST: Towards High-Resolution Benchmark and Toolkit for Land Surface Temperature Downscaling

Preprint, 2024
Qun Dai, Chunyang Yuan, Yimian Dai, Yuxuan Li, Xiang Li, Kang Ni, Jianhui Xu, Xiangbo Shu, Jian Yang
[Paper]


Pick of the Bunch: Detecting Infrared Small Targets Beyond Hit-Miss Trade-Offs via Selective Rank-Aware Attention

IEEE TGRS, 2024
Yimian Dai, Peiwen Pan, Yuxuan Li, et al.
[Paper]


Is Synthetic Data From Diffusion Models Ready for Knowledge Distillation?

Preprint, 2023
Zheng Li*, Yuxuan Li*, Penghai Zhao, et al.
[Paper]


DenoDet: Attention as Deformable Multi-Subspace Feature Denoising for Target Detection in SAR Images

Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2024
Yimian Dai, Minrui Zou, Yuxuan Li, et al.
[Paper]