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.
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:2611.05570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing change detection is typically formulated as Siamese feature comparison, where two images are encoded independently and a decoder determi...
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.
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.
arXiv:2607. 04750v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present FM-ChangeNet, a pathwise-supervised framework for change detection that reformulates bi-temporal reasoning as continuous transport in feature space rather than static endpoint comparison.
The paper introduces SIFR, a frequency-aware dual‑stream framework for domain‑generalized semantic segmentation. SIFR performs spectral‑guided invariant fusion of frozen CLIP and DINOv2 features to suppress domain‑sensitive responses while preserving semantic and structural cues, and adds a spectral decoder refinement module that normalizes low‑frequency statistics and adaptively selects frequencies to reduce residual domain bias. Experiments on synthetic‑to‑real, real‑to‑real, and adverse‑weather benchmarks show consistent improvements over prior state‑of‑the‑art methods.
arXiv:2605. 15375v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) localises changes between two images of the same geographic region.
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.
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.
Rapid advancements in vision-language models have propelled Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) to the forefront of Earth observation. However, practical deployments suffer severe perf...
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.