Основні поняття
A novel change detection network, LRNet, is proposed based on a localization-then-refinement strategy to accurately discriminate change areas and their boundaries in high-resolution remote sensing imagery.
Анотація
The paper presents a novel change detection network, LRNet, which consists of two stages: localization and refinement.
Localization Stage:
- LRNet employs a three-branch encoder to simultaneously extract features from the original bi-temporal images and their differences.
- Learnable Optimal Pooling (LOP) is proposed to replace the widely used max-pooling, reducing information loss during feature extraction.
- Change Alignment Attention (C2A) and Hierarchical Change Alignment (HCA) modules are designed to effectively interact features from different branches and accurately localize change areas of various sizes.
Refinement Stage:
- The Edge-Area Alignment (E2A) module is proposed to constrain and refine the change areas and edges obtained from the localization stage.
- The decoder in the refinement stage combines the C2A-enhanced differential features to progressively refine the change areas and edges from deep to shallow.
- A hybrid loss function of Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE) and Intersection over Union (IOU) is adopted for supervised training optimization.
The proposed LRNet outperforms 13 other state-of-the-art methods in terms of comprehensive evaluation metrics and provides the most accurate boundary discrimination results on the LEVIR-CD and WHU-CD datasets.
Статистика
The LEVIR-CD dataset consists of 637 pairs of high-resolution remote sensing images, each with a size of 10241024 and a spatial resolution of 0.5 m/pixel. The WHU-CD dataset comprises one pair of high-resolution remote sensing images, each with a size of 32,50715,354 and a spatial resolution of 0.3 m/pixel.