Attention-Based Bitemporal Image Deep Feature-Level Change Detection for High Resolution Imagery

Abstract

To understand the intricacy of changes on the surface of the land, change detection is an important field in the area of remote sensing. Bitemporal remote sensing images are resourceful information to perform the analysis related to classification and change detection. Most of the architectures proposed for improving the performance of change detection in high resolution images pose a challenge due to composite texture features and finer image details. In this paper, we propose a change detection approach for bitemporal images using supervised learning. Firstly, extraction of the features is performed using a pretrained neural network. Then, the extracted features are provided to a (DSDEN) deep supervised-based difference evaluation network. Then, channel and spatial-based attention components are incorporated for fusing the difference image features with the deep features of raw images for the reconstruction of the final change map. The experimental evaluation on public “LEVIR-CD†dataset demonstrates the effectiveness and superiority over traditional methods. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.