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Main Authors: Zhao, Yitao, Lei, Sen, Liu, Nanqing, Li, Heng-Chao, Celik, Turgay, Zhu, Qing
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14306
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author Zhao, Yitao
Lei, Sen
Liu, Nanqing
Li, Heng-Chao
Celik, Turgay
Zhu, Qing
author_facet Zhao, Yitao
Lei, Sen
Liu, Nanqing
Li, Heng-Chao
Celik, Turgay
Zhu, Qing
contents As an essential procedure in earth observation system, change detection (CD) aims to reveal the spatial-temporal evolution of the observation regions. A key prerequisite for existing change detection algorithms is aligned geo-references between multi-temporal images by fine-grained registration. However, in the majority of real-world scenarios, a prior manual registration is required between the original images, which significantly increases the complexity of the CD workflow. In this paper, we proposed a self-supervision motivated CD framework with geometric estimation, called "MatchCD". Specifically, the proposed MatchCD framework utilizes the zero-shot capability to optimize the encoder with self-supervised contrastive representation, which is reused in the downstream image registration and change detection to simultaneously handle the bi-temporal unalignment and object change issues. Moreover, unlike the conventional change detection requiring segmenting the full-frame image into small patches, our MatchCD framework can directly process the original large-scale image (e.g., 6K*4K resolutions) with promising performance. The performance in multiple complex scenarios with significant geometric distortion demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
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spellingShingle Exploring Generalizable Pre-training for Real-world Change Detection via Geometric Estimation
Zhao, Yitao
Lei, Sen
Liu, Nanqing
Li, Heng-Chao
Celik, Turgay
Zhu, Qing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
As an essential procedure in earth observation system, change detection (CD) aims to reveal the spatial-temporal evolution of the observation regions. A key prerequisite for existing change detection algorithms is aligned geo-references between multi-temporal images by fine-grained registration. However, in the majority of real-world scenarios, a prior manual registration is required between the original images, which significantly increases the complexity of the CD workflow. In this paper, we proposed a self-supervision motivated CD framework with geometric estimation, called "MatchCD". Specifically, the proposed MatchCD framework utilizes the zero-shot capability to optimize the encoder with self-supervised contrastive representation, which is reused in the downstream image registration and change detection to simultaneously handle the bi-temporal unalignment and object change issues. Moreover, unlike the conventional change detection requiring segmenting the full-frame image into small patches, our MatchCD framework can directly process the original large-scale image (e.g., 6K*4K resolutions) with promising performance. The performance in multiple complex scenarios with significant geometric distortion demonstrates the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
title Exploring Generalizable Pre-training for Real-world Change Detection via Geometric Estimation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14306