MemOVCD: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Cross-Temporal Memory Reasoning and Global-Local Adaptive Rectification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26774v1
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:05:37 GMT
• Title: MemOVCD: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Change Detection via Cross-Temporal Memory Reasoning and Global-Local Adaptive Rectification
• Abstract summary: Open-vocabulary change detection aims to identify semantic changes in bi-temporal remote sensing images without predefined categories.<n>We propose MemOVCD, a training-free open-vocabulary change detection framework based on cross-temporal memory reasoning and global-local adaptive rectification.
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• Abstract: Open-vocabulary change detection aims to identify semantic changes in bi-temporal remote sensing images without predefined categories. Recent methods combine foundation models such as SAM, DINO and CLIP, but typically process each timestamp independently or interact only at the final comparison stage. Such paradigms suffer from insufficient temporal coupling during semantic reasoning, which limits their ability to distinguish genuine semantic changes from non-semantic appearance discrepancies. In addition, patch-dominant inference on high-resolution images often weakens global semantic continuity and produces fragmented change regions. To address these issues, we propose MemOVCD, a training-free open-vocabulary change detection framework based on cross-temporal memory reasoning and global-local adaptive rectification. Specifically, we reformulate bi-temporal change detection as a two-frame tracking problem and introduce weighted bidirectional propagation to aggregate semantic evidence from both temporal directions. To stabilize memory propagation across large temporal gaps, we construct histogram-aligned transition frames to smooth abrupt appearance changes. Moreover, a global-local adaptive rectification strategy adaptively fuses local and global-view predictions, improving spatial consistency while preserving fine-grained details. Experiments on five benchmarks demonstrate that MemOVCD achieves favorable performance on two change detection tasks, validating its effectiveness and generalization under diverse open-vocabulary settings.

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