Hierarchical Dual-Change Collaborative Learning for UAV Scene Change Captioning

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Autori principali: Chen, Fuhai, Huang, Pengpeng, Wu, Junwen, Zhang, Hehong, Wang, Shiping, Ma, Xiaoguang, Ge, Xuri
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Chen, Fuhai
Huang, Pengpeng
Wu, Junwen
Zhang, Hehong
Wang, Shiping
Ma, Xiaoguang
Ge, Xuri
author_facet Chen, Fuhai
Huang, Pengpeng
Wu, Junwen
Zhang, Hehong
Wang, Shiping
Ma, Xiaoguang
Ge, Xuri
contents This paper proposes a novel task for UAV scene understanding - UAV Scene Change Captioning (UAV-SCC) - which aims to generate natural language descriptions of semantic changes in dynamic aerial imagery captured from a movable viewpoint. Unlike traditional change captioning that mainly describes differences between image pairs captured from a fixed camera viewpoint over time, UAV scene change captioning focuses on image-pair differences resulting from both temporal and spatial scene variations dynamically captured by a moving camera. The key challenge lies in understanding viewpoint-induced scene changes from UAV image pairs that share only partially overlapping scene content due to viewpoint shifts caused by camera rotation, while effectively exploiting the relative orientation between the two images. To this end, we propose a Hierarchical Dual-Change Collaborative Learning (HDC-CL) method for UAV scene change captioning. In particular, a novel transformer, \emph{i.e.} Dynamic Adaptive Layout Transformer (DALT) is designed to adaptively model diverse spatial layouts of the image pair, where the interrelated features derived from the overlapping and non-overlapping regions are learned within the flexible and unified encoding layer. Furthermore, we propose a Hierarchical Cross-modal Orientation Consistency Calibration (HCM-OCC) method to enhance the model's sensitivity to viewpoint shift directions, enabling more accurate change captioning. To facilitate in-depth research on this task, we construct a new benchmark dataset, named UAV-SCC dataset, for UAV scene change captioning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on this task. The dataset and code will be publicly released upon acceptance of this paper.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical Dual-Change Collaborative Learning for UAV Scene Change Captioning
Chen, Fuhai
Huang, Pengpeng
Wu, Junwen
Zhang, Hehong
Wang, Shiping
Ma, Xiaoguang
Ge, Xuri
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
This paper proposes a novel task for UAV scene understanding - UAV Scene Change Captioning (UAV-SCC) - which aims to generate natural language descriptions of semantic changes in dynamic aerial imagery captured from a movable viewpoint. Unlike traditional change captioning that mainly describes differences between image pairs captured from a fixed camera viewpoint over time, UAV scene change captioning focuses on image-pair differences resulting from both temporal and spatial scene variations dynamically captured by a moving camera. The key challenge lies in understanding viewpoint-induced scene changes from UAV image pairs that share only partially overlapping scene content due to viewpoint shifts caused by camera rotation, while effectively exploiting the relative orientation between the two images. To this end, we propose a Hierarchical Dual-Change Collaborative Learning (HDC-CL) method for UAV scene change captioning. In particular, a novel transformer, \emph{i.e.} Dynamic Adaptive Layout Transformer (DALT) is designed to adaptively model diverse spatial layouts of the image pair, where the interrelated features derived from the overlapping and non-overlapping regions are learned within the flexible and unified encoding layer. Furthermore, we propose a Hierarchical Cross-modal Orientation Consistency Calibration (HCM-OCC) method to enhance the model's sensitivity to viewpoint shift directions, enabling more accurate change captioning. To facilitate in-depth research on this task, we construct a new benchmark dataset, named UAV-SCC dataset, for UAV scene change captioning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on this task. The dataset and code will be publicly released upon acceptance of this paper.
title Hierarchical Dual-Change Collaborative Learning for UAV Scene Change Captioning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12832