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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)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yilmaz Korkmaz , Vishal M. Patel

Bi-temporal satellite imagery supports critical applications such as urbanization monitoring and disaster assessment. Although powerful multimodal large language models~(MLLMs) have been applied in bi-temporal change analysis, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yujie Li , Wenjia Xu , Yuanben Zhang , Zhiwei Wei , Mugen Peng

Most contemporary supervised Remote Sensing (RS) image Change Detection (CD) approaches are customized for equal-resolution bitemporal images. Real-world applications raise the need for cross-resolution change detection, aka, CD based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Keyan Chen , Chenyao Zhou , Song Chen , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Change detection (CD) in remote sensing is vital for applications such as urban monitoring and disaster assessment, yet traditional methods struggle with generalization across diverse scenarios. We present OmniCD, a foundational framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Chenhao Sun

Automatic image captioning is a promising technique for conveying visual information using natural language. It can benefit various tasks in satellite remote sensing, such as environmental monitoring, resource management, disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yingxu He , Qiqi Sun

The abundance of multimodal data (e.g. social media posts) has inspired interest in cross-modal retrieval methods. Popular approaches rely on a variety of metric learning losses, which prescribe what the proximity of image and text should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Christopher Thomas , Adriana Kovashka

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently found popular for image captioning problems in remote sensing (RS). Existing DNN based approaches rely on the availability of a training set made up of a high number of RS images with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Gencer Sumbul , Sonali Nayak , Begüm Demir

Remote Sensing Change Detection (RSCD) typically identifies changes in land cover or surface conditions by analyzing multi-temporal images. Currently, most deep learning-based methods primarily focus on learning unimodal visual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yixiao Liu , Yizhou Yang , Jinwen Li , Jun Tao , Ruoyu Li , Xiangkun Wang , Min Zhu , Junlong Cheng

Remote sensing has evolved from simple image acquisition to complex systems capable of integrating and processing visual and textual data. This review examines the development and application of multi-modal language models (MLLMs) in remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xintian Sun , Benji Peng , Charles Zhang , Fei Jin , Qian Niu , Junyu Liu , Keyu Chen , Ming Li , Pohsun Feng , Ziqian Bi , Ming Liu , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang

Image translation for change detection or classification in bi-temporal remote sensing images is unique. Although it can acquire paired images, it is still unsupervised. Moreover, strict semantic preservation in translation is always needed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Sheng Fang , Kaiyu Li , Zhe Li , Jianli Zhao , Xingli Zhang

The rapid advancement of remote sensing foundation models, particularly vision and multimodal models, has significantly enhanced the capabilities of intelligent geospatial data interpretation. These models combine various data modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ziyue Huang , Hongxi Yan , Qiqi Zhan , Shuai Yang , Mingming Zhang , Chenkai Zhang , YiMing Lei , Zeming Liu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Semantic retrieval of remote sensing (RS) images is a critical task fundamentally challenged by the \textquote{semantic gap}, the discrepancy between a model's low-level visual features and high-level human concepts. While large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 J. Xiao , Y. Guo , X. Zi , K. Thiyagarajan , C. Moreira , M. Prasad

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to achieve high-level semantic understanding of genuine changes occurring between bi-temporal images. Despite notable progress, existing methods are fundamentally limited by a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Man Wang , Chenyang Liu , Wenjun Li , Feng Ni , Bing Jia , Baoqi Huang , Riting Xia , Zhenwei Shi

Remote sensing image semantic change detection is a method used to analyze remote sensing images, aiming to identify areas of change as well as categorize these changes within images of the same location taken at different times.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yongshuo Zhu , Lu Li , Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Fugen Zhou , Zhenwei Shi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in vision-language tasks but their remote sensing (RS) counterpart are relatively under explored. Unlike natural images, RS imagery presents unique challenges that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Abduljaleel Adejumo , Faegheh Yeganli , Clifford Broni-bediako , Aoran Xiao , Naoto Yokoya , Mennatullah Siam

With the development of earth observation technology, massive amounts of remote sensing (RS) images are acquired. To find useful information from these images, cross-modal RS image-voice retrieval provides a new insight. This paper aims to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Hailong Ning , Bin Zhao , Yuan Yuan

Unsupervised Change Detection (UCD) in multimodal Remote Sensing (RS) images remains a difficult challenge due to the inherent spatio-temporal complexity within data, and the heterogeneity arising from different imaging sensors. Inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lei Ding , Xibing Zuo , Danfeng Hong , Haitao Guo , Jun Lu , Zhihui Gong , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD), a complex multi-image inference task, traditionally uses pixel-based operators or encoder-decoder networks that inadequately capture high-level semantics and are vulnerable to non-semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xingwei Ma , Shiyang Feng , Bo Zhang , Bin Wang

Cross-Domain Image Retrieval (CDIR) is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to match images across different visual domains such as sketches, paintings, and photographs. Existing CDIR methods rely either on supervised learning with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Lucas Iijima , Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Tania Stathaki

Although deep learning has advanced remote sensing change detection (RSCD), most methods rely solely on image modality, limiting feature representation, change pattern modeling, and generalization especially under illumination and noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yijun Zhou , Yikui Zhai , Zilu Ying , Tingfeng Xian , Wenlve Zhou , Zhiheng Zhou , Xiaolin Tian , Xudong Jia , Hongsheng Zhang , C. L. Philip Chen