MergeSAM: Unsupervised change detection of remote sensing images based on the Segment Anything Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22675v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:37:00 GMT
• Title: MergeSAM: Unsupervised change detection of remote sensing images based on the Segment Anything Model
• Authors: Meiqi Hu, Lingzhi Lu, Chengxi Han, Xiaoping Liu,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces MergeSAM, an innovative unsupervised change detection method for high-resolution remote sensing imagery.<n>Two novel strategies, MaskMatching and MaskSplitting, are designed to address real-world complexities such as object splitting, merging, and other intricate changes.
• Score: 4.8184525163335525
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, large foundation models trained on vast datasets have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in feature extraction and general feature representation. The ongoing advancements in deep learning-driven large models have shown great promise in accelerating unsupervised change detection methods, thereby enhancing the practical applicability of change detection technologies. Building on this progress, this paper introduces MergeSAM, an innovative unsupervised change detection method for high-resolution remote sensing imagery, based on the Segment Anything Model (SAM). Two novel strategies, MaskMatching and MaskSplitting, are designed to address real-world complexities such as object splitting, merging, and other intricate changes. The proposed method fully leverages SAM's object segmentation capabilities to construct multitemporal masks that capture complex changes, embedding the spatial structure of land cover into the change detection process.

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