4.7 Article

Change Alignment-Based Image Transformation for Unsupervised Heterogeneous Change Detection

Journal

REMOTE SENSING
Volume 14, Issue 21, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs14215622

Keywords

change detection; heterogeneous image; unsupervised; change alignment; image transformation; prior mask

Funding

  1. Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China [2021JJ30780]

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This study proposes a change detection framework based on change alignment, utilizing complementary information from forward and backward difference maps to enhance domain transformation effects and improve heterogeneous CD performance.
Change detection (CD) with heterogeneous images is currently attracting extensive attention in remote sensing. In order to make heterogeneous images comparable, the image transformation methods transform one image into the domain of another image, which can simultaneously obtain a forward difference map (FDM) and backward difference map (BDM). However, previous methods only fuse the FDM and BDM in the post-processing stage, which cannot fundamentally improve the performance of CD. In this paper, a change alignment-based change detection (CACD) framework for unsupervised heterogeneous CD is proposed to deeply utilize the complementary information of the FDM and BDM in the image transformation process, which enhances the effect of domain transformation, thus improving CD performance. To reduce the dependence of the transformation network on labeled samples, we propose a graph structure-based strategy of generating prior masks to guide the network, which can reduce the influence of changing regions on the transformation network in an unsupervised way. More importantly, based on the fact that the FDM and BDM are representing the same change event, we perform change alignment during the image transformation, which can enhance the image transformation effect and enable FDM and BDM to effectively indicate the real change region. Comparative experiments are conducted with six state-of-the-art methods on five heterogeneous CD datasets, showing that the proposed CACD achieves the best performance with an average overall accuracy (OA) of 95.9% on different datasets and at least 6.8% improvement in the kappa coefficient.

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