Multiscale context aggregation network for building change detection using high resolution remote sensing images

Jie Dong, Wufan Zhao, Shuai Wang

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Abstract

The existing methods of building change detection (CD) using remote sensing (RS) images are still deficient in handling scale variation and class imbalance problems, indicating a decrease in the robustness of small-object detection and pseudo-change information. Thus, a novel building CD framework called the multiscale context aggregation network (MSCANet) is proposed. The high-resolution network is integrated into the feature extracting stage to maintain high-resolution representations throughout the whole process. Then, multiscale context information is aggregated using a scale-aware feature pyramid module (FPM). Recognition performance can be improved from discriminant feature representation learning by using a channel–spatial attention module. Furthermore, a class-balanced loss is proposed to reduce the impact of class imbalance in long-tail datasets. Experimental results from using the LEVIR-CD and SZTAKI AirChange benchmark datasets prove the superiority of the MSCANet over the other baseline methods, with improved maximum F1 scores of 5.28 and 8.47, respectively.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-5
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE geoscience and remote sensing letters
Volume19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Oct 2021

Keywords

  • ITC-ISI-JOURNAL-ARTICLE
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