The paper proposes a weakly supervised remote sensing change detection method that uses change captions as the sole supervision signal, eliminating the need for pixel‑level change masks. It introduces a caption‑driven generation pipeline to create bi‑temporal image pairs with controlled changes and a Semantic‑Appearance Agreement Framework (SAAF) that fuses caption‑grounded semantic responses with RGB differences for accurate change localization. Experiments on the Flair‑RSGen and WHU‑CDC datasets demonstrate that SAAF outperforms existing limited‑supervision baselines in macro‑averaged IoU and F1 metrics.
By Yuan Qian, Jie Ma
arXiv:2610.10181v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Robots operating in dynamic environments require reliable detection of how their surroundings change over time. Existing learning-based methods largely...
By Ruihan Xu, Jiae Yoon, Kaichen Zhou, Ue-Hwan Kim, Luca Carlone
arXiv:2604. 20623v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional change detection identifies where changes occur, but does not explain what changed in natural language.
By Roie Kazoom, Yotam Gigi, George Leifman, Tomer Shekel, Genady Beryozkin
arXiv:2608. 06150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth-surface monitoring requires change detection models capable of recognizing arbitrary semantic categories.
By Zijie Wang, Chen Zhong, Wei He
arXiv:2606. 28724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and localizing subtle changes between paired images is critical for tasks such as surveillance and image editing.
By Jinhong Hu, Xiaoping Wang, Shuyin Huang, Guojin Zhong, Kaitai Liu, Kai Lu
arXiv:2411. 19758v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Remote sensing change detection based on a map reference and an up-to-date image boosts timely observation of the Earth's surface when earlier images are lacking for comparison.
By Shuguo Jiang, Fang Xu, Chuandong Liu, Hong Tan, Shengyang Li, Lei Yu, Wen Yang, Sen Jia, Gui-Song Xia
arXiv:2606. 31745v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing change detection (CD) traditionally focuses on pixel-level binary segmentation, which identifies where changes occur but neither what nor why.
By Ziyuan Liu, Ruifei Zhu, Ouqiao Ma, Yuantao Gu
The paper introduces KnowChange, a framework that uses pretrained vision‑language models to guide the synthesis of change data for remote sensing. By reasoning about plausible change locations and class transitions, KnowChange flexibly generates diverse change types within a unified pipeline. Experiments show that data produced by KnowChange outperforms existing synthetic datasets in both synthetic‑to‑real transfer and data augmentation scenarios, even at a compact scale.
By Yaoyi Qi, Xingxing Weng, Chao Pang, Yongkang Cui, Xiangyu Hao, Xiaokang Zhang, Guibo Zhu, Gui-Song Xia
The paper introduces MaSoN, an end-to-end unsupervised remote sensing change detection framework that synthesises diverse changes directly in latent feature space during training. By generating changes based on feature statistics of the target data, MaSoN produces data‑driven variations that align with the target domain and can be applied to new modalities such as SAR and multispectral imagery. The method achieves a 14.1 percentage point improvement in average F1 score across five benchmarks, demonstrating strong generalisation across diverse change types.
By Bla\v{z} Rolih, Matic Fu\v{c}ka, Filip Wolf, Luka \v{C}ehovin Zajc
arXiv:2608.28247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Change detection in Earth observation (EO) is critical for monitoring land surface transformations, yet recent research in the field is constrained by...
By Tadej Tomani\v{c}, Alice Baudhuin, Jan Soto\v{s}ek, Jure Brence, Pan\v{c}e Panov, Nikola Simidjievski, Dragi Kocev
arXiv:2606. 27018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote Sensing Foundation Models (RSFMs) have emerged as a powerful alternative to supervised models for Earth Observation, allowing satellites to autonomously trigger high-resolution captures or adjust tasking parameters upon detecting an anomaly, thereby maximizing the utility of the mission's limited power and computational resources.
By S. Ram\'irez-Gallego
arXiv:2609.10356v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-term change understanding from images of the same place revisited over time is a challenging task with applications in map maintenance and urban i...
By Benedetta Liberatori, Nermin Samet, Paolo Rota, Matthieu Cord, Elisa Ricci, Andrei Bursuc, Monika Wysocza\'nska