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The complexities of SAR imaging make it difficult to distinguish small vehicles from the background clutter, creating a barrier to data interpretation and the development of Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) in SAR vehicles. The scarcity of datasets has inhibited progress in SAR vehicle detection in the data-driven era. To address this, we introduce a new synthetic dataset called Mix MSTAR, which mixes target chips and clutter backgrounds with original radar data at the pixel level. Mix MSTAR contains 5392 objects of 20 fine-grained categories in 100 high-resolution images, predominantly 1478 \u00d7 1784 pixels. The dataset includes various landscapes such as woods, grasslands, urban buildings, lakes, and tightly arranged vehicles, each labeled with an Oriented Bounding Box (OBB). Notably, Mix MSTAR presents fine-grained object detection challenges by using the Extended Operating Condition (EOC) as a basis for dividing the dataset. Furthermore, we evaluate nine benchmark rotated detectors on Mix MSTAR and demonstrate the fidelity and effectiveness of the synthetic dataset. To the best of our knowledge, Mix MSTAR represents the first public multi-class SAR vehicle dataset designed for rotated object detection in large-scale scenes with complex backgrounds.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15184558","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,17]],"date-time":"2023-09-17T23:32:27Z","timestamp":1694993547000},"page":"4558","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Mix MSTAR: A Synthetic Benchmark Dataset for Multi-Class Rotation Vehicle Detection in Large-Scale SAR Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Zhigang","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Nuclear Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}]},{"given":"Shengjie","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Nuclear Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}]},{"given":"Yiting","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Nuclear Engineering, Rocket Force University of Engineering, Xi\u2019an 710000, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"He, K., Zhang, X., Ren, S., and Sun, J. 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