학술논문

Super-Resolution-Based Change Detection Network With Stacked Attention Module for Images With Different Resolutions
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on. 60:1-18 2022
Subject
Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Feature extraction
Remote sensing
Superresolution
Spatial resolution
Measurement
Semantics
Data mining
Change detection (CD)
fully convolutional networks (FCNs)
metric learning
remote sensing images
super-resolution
Language
ISSN
0196-2892
1558-0644
Abstract
Change detection (CD) aims to distinguish surface changes based on bitemporal images. Since high-resolution (HR) images cannot be typically acquired continuously over time, bitemporal images with different resolutions are often adopted for CD in practical applications. Traditional subpixel-based methods for CD using images with different resolutions may lead to substantial error accumulation when the HR images are employed, which is because of intraclass heterogeneity and interclass similarity. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a novel method for CD using images with different resolutions that are more suitable for the HR images. To this end, we propose a super-resolution-based change detection network (SRCDNet) with a stacked attention module (SAM). The SRCDNet employs a super-resolution (SR) module containing a generator and a discriminator to directly learn the SR images through adversarial learning and overcome the resolution difference between the bitemporal images. To enhance the useful information in multiscale features, a SAM consisting of five convolutional block attention modules (CBAMs) is integrated to the feature extractor. The final change map is obtained through a metric learning-based change decision module, wherein a distance map between bitemporal features is calculated. Ablation study and comparative experiments on two large datasets, building change detection dataset (BCDD) and season-varying change detection dataset (CDD), and a real-image experiment on the Google dataset fully demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method. The source code of SRCDNet is available at https://github.com/liumency/SRCDNet.