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Change detection, as an important and widely applied technique in the field of remote sensing, aims to analyze changes in surface areas over time and has broad applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zihan Yu , Tianxiao Li , Yuxin Zhu , Rongze Pan

Change detection is an important synthetic aperture radar (SAR) application, usually used to detect changes on the ground scene measurements in different moments in time. Traditionally, change detection algorithm (CDA) is mainly designed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 B. G. Palm , D. I. Alves , V. T. Vu , M. I. Pettersson , F. M. Bayer , R. J. Cintra , R. Machado , P. Dammert , H. Hellsten

Semantic Change Detection (SCD) is recognized as both a crucial and challenging task in the field of image analysis. Traditional methods for SCD have predominantly relied on the comparison of image pairs. However, this approach is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yinhe Liu , Sunan Shi , Zhuo Zheng , Jue Wang , Shiqi Tian , Yanfei Zhong

Developing accurate and reliable models for forest types mapping is critical to support efforts for halting deforestation and for biodiversity conservation (such as European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR)). This work introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuchang Jiang , Maxim Neumann

Global environment monitoring is a task that requires additional attention in the contemporary rapid climate change environment. This includes monitoring the rate of deforestation and areas affected by flooding. Satellite imaging has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Dmytro Filatov , Ghulam Nabi Ahmad Hassan Yar

Monitoring remote forests is a global challenge central to climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation, yet satellite observations are frequently limited by weather, dense canopies, and solar dependency. Here we show that passive…

In this paper, we consider the problem of change detection (CD) with two heterogeneous remote sensing (RS) images. For this problem, an unsupervised change detection method has been proposed recently based on the image translation technique…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-02 Chengxi Li , Gang Li , Zhuoyue Wang , Xueqian Wang , Pramod K. Varshney

Acquiring information on large areas on the earth's surface through satellite cameras allows us to see much more than we can see while standing on the ground. This assists us in detecting and monitoring the physical characteristics of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Aditya Kumar Singh , B. Uma Shankar

Forest plays a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change besides maintaining the world's biodiversity. The existing satellite-based forest monitoring system utilizes supervised learning approaches that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Gokul P , Ujjwal Verma

Regular patterns of vegetation are considered widespread landscapes, although their global extent has never been estimated. Among them, spotted landscapes are of particular interest in the context of climate change. Indeed, regularly spaced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Baki Uzun , Shivam Pande , Gwendal Cachin-Bernard , Minh-Tan Pham , Sébastien Lefèvre , Rumais Blatrix , Doyle McKey

With its vast expanse, exceeding that of Western Europe by twice, the Amazon rainforest stands as the largest forest of the Earth, holding immense importance in global climate regulation. Yet, deforestation detection from remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Carla Nascimento Neves , Raul Queiroz Feitosa , Mabel X. Ortega Adarme , Gilson Antonio Giraldi

Change detection in remote sensing imagery is a critical technique for Earth observation, primarily focusing on pixel-level segmentation of change regions between bi-temporal images. The essence of pixel-level change detection lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sijun Dong , Fangcheng Zuo , Geng Chen , Siming Fu , Xiaoliang Meng

This paper presents a fully unsupervised deep change detection approach for mobile robots with 3D LiDAR. In unstructured environments, it is infeasible to define a closed set of semantic classes. Instead, semantic segmentation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Krawciw , Jordy Sehn , Timothy D. Barfoot

In the later training stages, further improvement of the models ability to determine changes relies on how well the change detection (CD) model learns hard cases; however, there are two additional challenges to learning hard case samples:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chao Tao , Dongsheng Kuang , Zhenyang Huang , Chengli Peng , Haifeng Li

Forest monitoring is critical for climate change mitigation. However, existing global tree height maps provide only static snapshots and do not capture temporal forest dynamics, which are essential for accurate carbon accounting. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jan Pauls , Karsten Schrödter , Sven Ligensa , Martin Schwartz , Berkant Turan , Max Zimmer , Sassan Saatchi , Sebastian Pokutta , Philippe Ciais , Fabian Gieseke

Aerial imagery is increasingly used in Earth science and natural resource management as a complement to labor-intensive ground-based surveys. Aerial systems can collect overlapping images that provide multiple views of each location from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 David Russell , Ben Weinstein , David Wettergreen , Derek Young

Accurate change detection from satellite imagery is essential for monitoring rapid mass-movement hazards such as snow avalanches, which increasingly threaten human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems due to their rising frequency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mattia Gatti , Alberto Mariani , Ignazio Gallo , Fabiano Monti

Healthy urban forests comprising of diverse trees and shrubs play a crucial role in mitigating climate change. They provide several key advantages such as providing shade for energy conservation, and intercepting rainfall to reduce flood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Akshit Gupta , Remko Uijlenhoet

Change detection is a fundamental task in remote sensing, aiming to quantify the impacts of human activities and ecological dynamics on land-cover changes. Existing change detection methods are limited to predefined classes in training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 You Su , Yonghong Song , Jingqi Chen , Zehan Wen

Change detection in remote sensing imagery is essential for a variety of applications such as urban planning, disaster management, and climate research. However, existing methods for identifying semantically changed areas overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Maximilian Bernhard , Niklas Strauß , Matthias Schubert