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Main Authors: Wang, Ye, Lu, Wei, You, Zhihui, Chen, Keyan, Liu, Tongfei, Li, Kaiyu, Chen, Hongruixuan, Shu, Qingling, Chen, Sibao
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19077
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author Wang, Ye
Lu, Wei
You, Zhihui
Chen, Keyan
Liu, Tongfei
Li, Kaiyu
Chen, Hongruixuan
Shu, Qingling
Chen, Sibao
author_facet Wang, Ye
Lu, Wei
You, Zhihui
Chen, Keyan
Liu, Tongfei
Li, Kaiyu
Chen, Hongruixuan
Shu, Qingling
Chen, Sibao
contents Change detection in optical remote sensing imagery is susceptible to illumination fluctuations, seasonal changes, and variations in surface land-cover materials. Relying solely on RGB imagery often produces pseudo-changes and leads to semantic ambiguity in features. Incorporating near-infrared (NIR) information provides heterogeneous physical cues that are complementary to visible light, thereby enhancing the discriminability of building materials and tiny structures while improving detection accuracy. However, existing multi-modal datasets generally lack high-resolution and accurately registered bi-temporal imagery, and current methods often fail to fully exploit the inherent heterogeneity between these modalities. To address these issues, we introduce the Large-scale Small-change Multi-modal Dataset (LSMD), a bi-temporal RGB-NIR building change detection benchmark dataset targeting small changes in realistic scenarios, providing a rigorous testing platform for evaluating multi-modal change detection methods in complex environments. Based on LSMD, we further propose the Multi-modal Spectral Complementarity Network (MSCNet) to achieve effective cross-modal feature fusion. MSCNet comprises three key components: the Neighborhood Context Enhancement Module (NCEM) to strengthen local spatial details, the Cross-modal Alignment and Interaction Module (CAIM) to enable deep interaction between RGB and NIR features, and the Saliency-aware Multisource Refinement Module (SMRM) to progressively refine fused features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MSCNet effectively leverages multi-modal information and consistently outperforms existing methods under multiple input configurations, validating its efficacy for fine-grained building change detection. The source code will be made publicly available at: https://github.com/AeroVILab-AHU/LSMD
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spellingShingle Multi-Modal Building Change Detection for Large-Scale Small Changes: Benchmark and Baseline
Wang, Ye
Lu, Wei
You, Zhihui
Chen, Keyan
Liu, Tongfei
Li, Kaiyu
Chen, Hongruixuan
Shu, Qingling
Chen, Sibao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Change detection in optical remote sensing imagery is susceptible to illumination fluctuations, seasonal changes, and variations in surface land-cover materials. Relying solely on RGB imagery often produces pseudo-changes and leads to semantic ambiguity in features. Incorporating near-infrared (NIR) information provides heterogeneous physical cues that are complementary to visible light, thereby enhancing the discriminability of building materials and tiny structures while improving detection accuracy. However, existing multi-modal datasets generally lack high-resolution and accurately registered bi-temporal imagery, and current methods often fail to fully exploit the inherent heterogeneity between these modalities. To address these issues, we introduce the Large-scale Small-change Multi-modal Dataset (LSMD), a bi-temporal RGB-NIR building change detection benchmark dataset targeting small changes in realistic scenarios, providing a rigorous testing platform for evaluating multi-modal change detection methods in complex environments. Based on LSMD, we further propose the Multi-modal Spectral Complementarity Network (MSCNet) to achieve effective cross-modal feature fusion. MSCNet comprises three key components: the Neighborhood Context Enhancement Module (NCEM) to strengthen local spatial details, the Cross-modal Alignment and Interaction Module (CAIM) to enable deep interaction between RGB and NIR features, and the Saliency-aware Multisource Refinement Module (SMRM) to progressively refine fused features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MSCNet effectively leverages multi-modal information and consistently outperforms existing methods under multiple input configurations, validating its efficacy for fine-grained building change detection. The source code will be made publicly available at: https://github.com/AeroVILab-AHU/LSMD
title Multi-Modal Building Change Detection for Large-Scale Small Changes: Benchmark and Baseline
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19077