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The application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing (RS) has demonstrated significant potential in traditional tasks such as scene classification, object detection, and image captioning. However, current models, which excel…

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Deep learning based change detection methods have received wide attentoion, thanks to their strong capability in obtaining rich features from images. However, existing AI-based CD methods largely rely on three functionality-enhancing…

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Understanding environmental changes from remote sensing imagery is vital for climate resilience, urban planning, and ecosystem monitoring. Yet, current vision language models (VLMs) overlook causal signals from environmental sensors, rely…

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Change detection in remote sensing imagery is essential for applications such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. Traditional change detection methods typically identify all changes between two temporal…

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Existing remote sensing change detection methods are heavily affected by seasonal variation. Since vegetation colors are different between winter and summer, such variations are inclined to be falsely detected as changes. In this letter, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tiange Zhang , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong , Qian Du

Image captioning and cross-modal retrieval are examples of tasks that involve the joint analysis of visual and linguistic information. In connection to remote sensing imagery, these tasks can help non-expert users in extracting relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 João Daniel Silva , João Magalhães , Devis Tuia , Bruno Martins

Change captioning has become essential for accurately describing changes in multi-temporal remote sensing data, providing an intuitive way to monitor Earth's dynamics through natural language. However, existing change captioning methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Yuduo Wang , Weikang Yu , Pedram Ghamisi

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

Recent advances in prompt learning have allowed users to interact with artificial intelligence (AI) tools in multi-turn dialogue, enabling an interactive understanding of images. However, it is difficult and inefficient to deliver…

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As the issue of global climate change becomes increasingly severe, the demand for research in climate science continues to grow. Natural language processing technologies, represented by Large Language Models (LLMs), have been widely applied…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Zhou Chen , Xiao Wang , Yuanhong Liao , Ming Lin , Yuqi Bai

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

Remote sensing image captioning has advanced rapidly through encoder--decoder models, although the reliance on large annotated datasets and the focus on English restricts global applicability. To address these limitations, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Carlos Rebelo , Gil Rocha , João Daniel Silva , Bruno Martins

Recent advancements in Remote Sensing (RS) for Change Detection (CD) and Change Captioning (CC) have seen substantial success by adopting deep learning techniques. Despite these advances, existing methods often handle CD and CC tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yuduo Wang , Weikang Yu , Michael Kopp , Pedram Ghamisi

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated great potential in interpreting remote sensing (RS) images through language-guided semantic. However, the effectiveness of these VLMs critically depends on high-quality image-text training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Dilxat Muhtar , Enzhuo Zhang , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu , Yanglangxing He , Pengfeng Xiao , Xueliang Zhang

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

The unprecedented advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated strong potential in interacting with humans through both language and visual inputs to perform downstream tasks such as visual question answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Wenjia Xu , Zijian Yu , Boyang Mu , Zhiwei Wei , Yuanben Zhang , Guangzuo Li , Jiuniu Wang , Mugen Peng

Change visual question answering (Change VQA) addresses the problem of answering natural-language questions about semantic changes between bi-temporal remote sensing (RS) images. Although vision-language models (VLMs) have recently been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yakoub Bazi , Mohamad M. Al Rahhal , Mansour Zuair , Faroun Mohamed

Remarkable capabilities in understanding and generating text-image content have been demonstrated by recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, their effectiveness in specialized domains-particularly those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Aybora Koksal , A. Aydin Alatan

Current remote sensing vision-language models (RS VLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in image interpretation but rely on static training data, limiting their ability to accommodate continuously emerging sensing modalities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Xingxing Weng , Ruifeng Ni , Chao Pang , XiangYu Hao , Yishan Wang , Xiaokang Zhang , Wei Xu , Gui-Song Xia

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to articulate the changes in objects of interest within bi-temporal remote sensing images using natural language. Given the limitations of current RSICC methods in expressing general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongshuo Zhu , Lu Li , Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Fugen Zhou , Zhenwei Shi