arXiv AI October 27, 2026 By Eunki Cho, Hyeon Bae Kim, Seong Tae Kim

CoDeRNet: Selective Cross-Task Routing under Heterogeneous Supervision for Change Detection and Captioning

CoDeRNet is a unified framework for Change Detection & Captioning (CDC) that treats the problem as selective information routing between heterogeneous task branches. It introduces a Confidence‑Decomposed Routing (CoDeR) mechanism that decides when and where to transfer information based on receiver needs and sender reliability. Experiments on LEVIR‑MCI and WHU‑CDC demonstrate that CoDeRNet improves caption generation while maintaining strong change localization, showing that conditional, selective cross‑task communication is key to effective CDC under heterogeneous supervision.

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