Pushing Trade-Off Boundaries: Compact yet Effective Remote Sensing Change Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21109v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:06:52 GMT
• Title: Pushing Trade-Off Boundaries: Compact yet Effective Remote Sensing Change Detection
• Authors: Luosheng Xu, Dalin Zhang, Zhaohui Song,
• Abstract summary: We propose FlickCD, which means quick flick then get great results.<n>Experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that FlickCD reduces computational and storage overheads by more than an order of magnitude.
• Score: 4.208862548491969
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: 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 revolutionized change detection, the increasing complexity and computational demands of modern models have not necessarily translated into significant accuracy gains. Instead of following this trend, this study explores a more efficient approach, focusing on lightweight models that maintain high accuracy while minimizing resource consumption, which is an essential requirement for on-satellite processing. To this end, we propose FlickCD, which means quick flick then get great results, pushing the boundaries of the performance-resource trade-off. FlickCD introduces an Enhanced Difference Module (EDM) to amplify critical feature differences between temporal phases while suppressing irrelevant variations such as lighting and weather changes, thereby reducing computational costs in the subsequent change decoder. Additionally, the FlickCD decoder incorporates Local-Global Fusion Blocks, leveraging Shifted Window Self-Attention (SWSA) and Enhanced Global Self-Attention (EGSA) to efficiently capture semantic information at multiple scales, preserving both coarse- and fine-grained changes. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that FlickCD reduces computational and storage overheads by more than an order of magnitude while achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance or incurring only a minor (<1\% F1) accuracy trade-off. The implementation code is publicly available at https://github.com/xulsh8/FlickCD.

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