arXiv AI

Make Some Noise: Unsupervised Remote Sensing Change Detection Using Latent Space Perturbations

arXiv AI
Aug 26

Real-World Knowledge-Guided Change Data Synthesis for Remote Sensing

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 8

ASFR-Net: Adversarial Alignment and Spatio-Frequency Refinement Network for Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

The core challenge of heterogeneous change detection in remote sensing imagery lies in effectively decoupling genuine land-cover changes from significant modal disparities caused by distinct imaging mechanisms. These intrinsic inconsistencies are prone to introducing pseudo-changes, thereby constraining detection accuracy.

arXiv AI
Jun 26

On-board Remote-Sensing Foundation Models for Unsupervised Change Detection of Disaster Events

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 Computer Vision
4d ago

Domain shift-robust object detection with GenAI image editing

The paper investigates using diffusion-based generative image editing to improve object detector robustness against domain shifts, specifically camouflaged military vehicle detection. By synthetically adding foliage, netting, and multi‑spectral camouflage to training data with models such as Qwen Image Edit 2509 and Flux.2 Dev, the authors demonstrate significant mAP gains (up to +20.1 for foliage) over detectors trained on uncamouflaged data. LoRA fine‑tuning further boosts performance for the more challenging multi‑spectral camouflage.

By Isabel D. Stein, Thijs A. Eker, Sebastiaan P. Snel, Ella P. Fokkinga, Klamer Schutte, Luca Ambrogioni, Friso G. Heslinga