CoSA: Correlation-Guided Change Attention with Learnable Residual Gating for Remote Sensing Change Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21932v1
• Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:56:09 GMT
• Title: CoSA: Correlation-Guided Change Attention with Learnable Residual Gating for Remote Sensing Change Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose Context Sampling Attention (CoSA), a lightweight decoder-side refinement module.<n>CoSA explicitly leverages bi-temporal feature correlation as a control signal for adaptive change-aware feature enhancement.<n>Experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines.
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• Abstract: Remote sensing change detection (CD) from bi-temporal imagery is critical for applications such as urban monitoring, disaster assessment, and environmental management, yet robust localization remains challenging under sparse changes, noisy labels, and appearance variations. In this paper, we propose Context Sampling Attention (CoSA), a lightweight decoder-side refinement module that explicitly leverages bi-temporal feature correlation as a control signal for adaptive change-aware feature enhancement. This differs from conventional attention mechanisms that rely on implicit feature weighting without explicit temporal control. In the implemented FC-Siam setting, CoSA computes normalized same-location cross-correlation between paired decoder features, converts low correlation into a change gate, and injects the resulting gated residual at native 1/8 and 1/16 feature scales through learnable residual scaling. This design enables effective discrimination between stable and ambiguous regions without relying on computationally expensive global attention. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets (LEVIR-CD, S2Looking, DSIFN, and CLCD) demonstrate consistent improvements over strong baselines, achieving 1.5-2.6% gains in changed-class F1 while introducing negligible parameter overhead. Ablation studies confirm that multiscale placement and learnable residual gating are both important for peak performance. These results indicate that CoSA establishes a practical and effective refinement paradigm for enhancing temporal discriminability in Siamese change detection frameworks.

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