RemoteVAR: Autoregressive Visual Modeling for Remote Sensing Change Detection

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Autori principali: Korkmaz, Yilmaz, Patel, Vishal M.
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author Korkmaz, Yilmaz
Patel, Vishal M.
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Patel, Vishal M.
contents Remote sensing change detection aims to localize and characterize scene changes between two time points and is central to applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. Meanwhile, visual autoregressive models (VARs) have recently shown impressive image generation capability, but their adoption for pixel-level discriminative tasks remains limited due to weak controllability, suboptimal dense prediction performance and exposure bias. We introduce RemoteVAR, a new VAR-based change detection framework that addresses these limitations by conditioning autoregressive prediction on multi-resolution fused bi-temporal features via cross-attention, and by employing an autoregressive training strategy designed specifically for change map prediction. Extensive experiments on standard change detection benchmarks show that RemoteVAR delivers consistent and significant improvements over strong diffusion-based and transformer-based baselines, establishing a competitive autoregressive alternative for remote sensing change detection. Code will be available \href{https://github.com/yilmazkorkmaz1/RemoteVAR}{\underline{here}}.
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spellingShingle RemoteVAR: Autoregressive Visual Modeling for Remote Sensing Change Detection
Korkmaz, Yilmaz
Patel, Vishal M.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Remote sensing change detection aims to localize and characterize scene changes between two time points and is central to applications such as environmental monitoring and disaster assessment. Meanwhile, visual autoregressive models (VARs) have recently shown impressive image generation capability, but their adoption for pixel-level discriminative tasks remains limited due to weak controllability, suboptimal dense prediction performance and exposure bias. We introduce RemoteVAR, a new VAR-based change detection framework that addresses these limitations by conditioning autoregressive prediction on multi-resolution fused bi-temporal features via cross-attention, and by employing an autoregressive training strategy designed specifically for change map prediction. Extensive experiments on standard change detection benchmarks show that RemoteVAR delivers consistent and significant improvements over strong diffusion-based and transformer-based baselines, establishing a competitive autoregressive alternative for remote sensing change detection. Code will be available \href{https://github.com/yilmazkorkmaz1/RemoteVAR}{\underline{here}}.
title RemoteVAR: Autoregressive Visual Modeling for Remote Sensing Change Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11898