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Remote sensing images contain complex spatial patterns and semantic structures, which makes the captioning model difficult to accurately describe. Encoder-decoder architectures have become the widely used approach for RSIC by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Swadhin Das , Raksha Sharma

Remote sensing change captioning is an emerging and popular research task that aims to describe, in natural language, the content of interest that has changed between two remote sensing images captured at different times. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Futian Wang , Mengqi Wang , Xiao Wang , Haowen Wang , Jin Tang

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

The spatial attention is a straightforward approach to enhance the performance for remote sensing image captioning. However, conventional spatial attention approaches consider only the attention distribution on one fixed coarse grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Chengze Wang , Zhiyu Jiang , Yuan Yuan

Remote Sensing Image Captioning (RSIC) presents unique challenges and plays a critical role in applications. Traditional RSIC methods often struggle to produce rich and diverse descriptions. Recently, with advancements in VLMs, efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Hui Lin , Danfeng Hong , Shuhang Ge , Chuyao Luo , Kai Jiang , Hao Jin , Congcong Wen

Remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) is a critical task with diverse applications in land use and resource management. While unimodal image-based approaches show promise, they often struggle with limitations such as high intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinjin Cai , Kexin Meng , Baijian Yang , Gang Shao

The core objective of image captioning is to achieve lossless semantic compression from visual signals into textual modalities. However, the reliance on manually curated reference texts for evaluation essentially forces models to mimic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ziyun Chen , Fan Liu , Liang Yao , Chuanyi Zhang , Yuye Ma , Wei Zhou

We deal with the problem of generating textual captions from optical remote sensing (RS) images using the notion of deep reinforcement learning. Due to the high inter-class similarity in reference sentences describing remote sensing data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ruchika Chavhan , Biplab Banerjee , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Remote sensing (RS) change analysis is vital for monitoring Earth's dynamic processes by detecting alterations in images over time. Traditional change detection excels at identifying pixel-level changes but lacks the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Pei Deng , Wenqian Zhou , Hanlin Wu

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) aims to generate natural language descriptions of subtle differences between image pairs, requiring both precise visual change localization and coherent semantic expression. Despite recent advancements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yuan Liu , Saihui Hou , Saijie Hou , Jiabao Du , Shibei Meng , Yongzhen Huang

Along with the prosperity of recurrent neural network in modelling sequential data and the power of attention mechanism in automatically identify salient information, image captioning, a.k.a., image description, has been remarkably advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Hao Liu , Yang Yang , Fumin Shen , Lixin Duan , Heng Tao Shen

With the growing capabilities of modern object detection networks and datasets to train them, it has gotten more straightforward and, importantly, less laborious to get up and running with a model that is quite adept at detecting any number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Grant Rosario , David Noever

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

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

Recently, while significant progress has been made in remote sensing image change captioning, existing methods fail to filter out areas unrelated to actual changes, making models susceptible to irrelevant features. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Cong Yang , Zuchao Li , Hongzan Jiao , Zhi Gao , Lefei Zhang

Accurate interpretation of land-cover changes in multi-temporal satellite imagery is critical for real-world scenarios. However, existing methods typically provide only one-shot change masks or static captions, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Pei Deng , Wenqian Zhou , Hanlin Wu

Change detection, which aims to distinguish surface changes based on bi-temporal images, plays a vital role in ecological protection and urban planning. Since high resolution (HR) images cannot be typically acquired continuously over time,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-24 Mengxi Liu , Qian Shi , Andrea Marinoni , Da He , Xiaoping Liu , Liangpei Zhang

Image Difference Captioning (IDC) generates natural language descriptions that precisely identify differences between two images, serving as a key benchmark for fine-grained change perception, cross-modal reasoning, and image editing data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yuancheng Wei , Haojie Zhang , Linli Yao , Lei Li , Jiali Chen , Tao Huang , Yiting Lu , Duojun Huang , Xin Li , Zhao Zhong

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

Remote sensing (RS) images contain numerous objects of different scales, which poses significant challenges for the RS image change captioning (RSICC) task to identify visual changes of interest in complex scenes and describe them via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chenyang Liu , Jiajun Yang , Zipeng Qi , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi