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RSRCC: A Remote Sensing Regional Change Comprehension Benchmark Constructed via Retrieval-Augmented Best-of-N Ranking

arXiv:2604. 20623v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional change detection identifies where changes occur, but does not explain what changed in natural language.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

From Change Captions to Change Detection: Semantic-Appearance Agreement Framework for Remote Sensing Change Detection

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 Machine Learning
Sep 23

MGRL-RSCC: Multi-Granularity Reward Reinforcement Learning for Fine-Grained Remote Sensing Change Captioning

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.

By Futian Wang, Mengqi Wang, Xiao Wang, Wentao Wu, Haowen Wang, Zhicheng Zhao, Jin Tang
arXiv AI
Aug 14

LongEarth-R1: Benchmarking and Aligning Vision-Language Models for Long-Horizon Earth Observation Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon Earth observation reasoning requires models to organize multi-stage geographic evolution, localize spatial changes, detect temporal anomalies, and infer future from extended image sequences.

By Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Gui-Song Xia, Mi Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 17

EchoChange: A Diffusion Language Model with Dual Pass Remasking for Factual Remote Sensing Disaster Change Captioning

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.

By Dongwei Sun, Bowen Yao, Yujie Zhang, Pei Liu, Jing Yao, Xiangyong Cao
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 20

STAND: Semantic Anchoring Constraint with Dual-Granularity Disambiguation for Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning

The paper introduces STAND, a method for remote sensing image change captioning that tackles ambiguities in viewpoint, scale, and prior knowledge. It employs a semantic anchoring constraint to regularize temporal representations, a dual‑granularity disambiguation module that uses global context and frequency‑refocused attention to resolve spatial uncertainties, and a semantic concept anchoring module that leverages language priors during decoding. Experiments demonstrate that STAND outperforms existing approaches and effectively addresses these ambiguities.

By Yanpei Gong, Beichen Zhang, Hao Wang, Xuhang Fu, Zhaobo Qi, Xinyan Liu, Yuanrong Xu, Weigang Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

More with Less: a Large Scale Remote Sensing VLM with a Simple Recipe

arXiv:2607. 15942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models are increasingly expected to support open-ended reasoning over Earth Observation data and a variety of tasks.

By Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")