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Remote Sensing Image-Text Retrieval (RSITR) is pivotal for knowledge services and data mining in the remote sensing (RS) domain. Considering the multi-scale representations in image content and text vocabulary can enable the models to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Rui Yang , Shuang Wang , Yingping Han , Yuanheng Li , Dong Zhao , Dou Quan , Yanhe Guo , Licheng Jiao

Automated analysis of vast Earth observation data via interactive Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can unlock new opportunities for environmental monitoring, disaster response, and {resource management}. Existing generic VLMs do not perform…

Rapid situational awareness is critical in post-disaster response. While remote sensing damage assessment is evolving from pixel-level change detection to high-level semantic analysis, existing vision-language methodologies still struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Dongwei Sun , Jing Yao , Kan Wei , Xiangyong Cao , Chen Wu , Zhenghui Zhao , Pedram Ghamisi , Jun Zhou , Jón Atli Benediktsson

With Transformers achieving outstanding performance on individual remote sensing (RS) tasks, we are now approaching the realization of a unified model that excels across multiple tasks through multi-task learning (MTL). Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Qingyun Li , Shuran Ma , Junwei Luo , Yi Yu , Yue Zhou , Fengxiang Wang , Xudong Lu , Xiaoxing Wang , Xin He , Yushi Chen , Xue Yang

Remote sensing is critical for disaster monitoring, yet existing datasets lack temporal image pairs and detailed textual annotations. While single-snapshot imagery dominates current resources, it fails to capture dynamic disaster impacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhenyuan Chen , Chenxi Wang , Ningyu Zhang , Feng Zhang

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

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown significant promise in remote sensing applications, particularly for land-use and land-cover (LULC) mapping via zero-shot classification and retrieval. However, current approaches face several key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Pallavi Jain , Diego Marcos , Dino Ienco , Roberto Interdonato , Tristan Berchoux

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Hosam Elgendy , Ahmed Sharshar , Ahmed Aboeitta , Mohsen Guizani

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in various visual benchmarks but are often constrained by the lack of high-quality visual fine-tuning data. To address this challenge, we introduce VisCon-100K, a novel dataset derived from interleaved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Gokul Karthik Kumar , Iheb Chaabane , Kebin Wu

The Earth's surface is continually changing, and identifying changes plays an important role in urban planning and sustainability. Although change detection techniques have been successfully developed for many years, these techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Zhitong Xiong , Xiaoxiang Zhu

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great promise in natural image domains, allowing users to hold a dialogue about given visual content. However, such general-domain VLMs perform poorly for Remote Sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kartik Kuckreja , Muhammad Sohail Danish , Muzammal Naseer , Abhijit Das , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Recent progress in VLMs has demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks in the natural image domain. Motivated by these advancements, the remote sensing community has begun to adopt VLMs for remote sensing vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Congcong Wen , Yiting Lin , Xiaokang Qu , Nan Li , Yong Liao , Xiang Li , Hui Lin

Explaining temporal changes between satellite images taken at different times is important for urban planning and environmental monitoring. However, manual dataset construction for the task is costly, so human-AI collaboration is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ryo Tsujimoto , Hiroki Ouchi , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Taro Watanabe

Remote sensing change detection is essential for monitoring urban expansion, disaster assessment, and resource management, offering timely, accurate, and large-scale insights into dynamic landscape transformations. While deep learning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Luosheng Xu , Dalin Zhang , Zhaohui Song

Recently, the remarkable success of ChatGPT has sparked a renewed wave of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), and the advancements in visual language models (VLMs) have pushed this enthusiasm to new heights. Differring from previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lijie Tao , Haokui Zhang , Haizhao Jing , Yu Liu , Dawei Yan , Guoting Wei , Xizhe Xue

The mainstream paradigm of remote sensing image interpretation has long been dominated by vision-centered models, which rely on visual features for semantic understanding. However, these models face inherent limitations in handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haifeng Li , Wang Guo , Haiyang Wu , Mengwei Wu , Jipeng Zhang , Qing Zhu , Yu Liu , Xin Huang , Chao Tao

With the advancement of remote sensing satellite technology and the rapid progress of deep learning, remote sensing change detection (RSCD) has become a key technique for regional monitoring. Traditional change detection (CD) methods and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Chengming Wang , Guodong Fan , Jinjiang Li , Min Gan , C. L. Philip Chen

Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning (RSICC) aims to generate spatially grounded natural language descriptions of scene evolution from bi-temporal imagery, moving beyond binary change masks toward semantic-level understanding. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yupeng Gao , Tianyu Li , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang

Remote sensing change detection plays a pivotal role in domains such as environmental monitoring, urban planning, and disaster assessment. However, existing methods typically rely on predefined categories and large-scale pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mingyu Dou , Shi Qiu , Ming Hu , Yifan Chen , Huping Ye , Xiaohan Liao , Zhe Sun

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