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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2604. 20623v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional change detection identifies where changes occur, but does not explain what changed in natural language.
The paper introduces MGRL-RSCC, a multi‑granularity reward reinforcement learning framework for Remote Sensing Change Captioning (RSCC). It uses a CNN with hierarchical self‑attention to extract visual features, a Transformer decoder for visual‑to‑linguistic translation, and a dual‑decoding strategy combined with token‑level supervised learning and self‑critical reinforcement learning. Three reward functions—linguistic fluency, change state consistency, and structural‑semantic relevance—are employed to improve caption quality and reduce exposure bias and conservative generation.
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.
arXiv:2608. 01856v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Bi-temporal remote-sensing disaster change captioning often needs to identify sparse and spatially localized changes across large pre- and post-event scenes and then translate them into coherent, factual descriptions.
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...
arXiv:2606. 27410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The primary goal of Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning (RSICC) is to automatically generate descriptions of changes between remote sensing images captured at different time points.
arXiv:2605. 15375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) localises changes between two images of the same geographic region.
Long-term change understanding from images of the same place revisited over time is a challenging task with applications in map maintenance and urban infrastructure monitoring. Prior work addresses it...
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.
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.