Freq-RemoteVAR: Next-Frequency Autoregressive Modeling for Remote Sensing Change Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25815v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:59:56 GMT
• Title: Freq-RemoteVAR: Next-Frequency Autoregressive Modeling for Remote Sensing Change Detection
• Abstract summary: We propose a frequency autoregressive framework that reformulates change detection as a structured generation problem in the frequency domain.<n>We develop a Frequency VAR Transformer, which performs causal autoregressive modeling over frequency tokens.<n>Experiments on CDD, GZ-CD, and LEVIR-CD demonstrate that Freq-Remote consistently outperforms existing methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Remote sensing change detection aims to identify land-cover changes from bi-temporal images. Most existing methods follow a one-shot dense prediction paradigm, directly regressing a change mask from fused features. However, such approaches overlook the intrinsic frequency characteristics of change patterns. We propose Freq-RemoteVAR, a frequency autoregressive framework that reformulates change detection as a structured generation problem in the frequency domain. Instead of predicting the change mask in a single step, we introduce a next-frequency prediction paradigm, where change information is progressively generated from coarse to fine. We design a frequency-aware mask tokenization strategy that decomposes change supervision into multi-frequency token targets via Fourier transformation and quantization. We develop a Frequency VAR Transformer, which performs causal autoregressive modeling over frequency tokens. The model starts from learned mask queries and progressively predicts frequency-level tokens conditioned on previously generated tokens and bi-temporal image features, effectively capturing long-range dependencies across frequency scales. We introduce Scale-Aligned RoPE Cross Attention (SRCA) module, which aligns frequency-domain mask queries with spatial-domain bi-temporal features under a unified coordinate system, enhancing spatial-frequency consistency during generation. We propose a Change-quality Control module that adaptively modulates the generation process through dynamic normalization, attention biasing, and spatial offset adjustment, thereby suppressing pseudo-change responses and improving robustness. Extensive experiments on CDD, GZ-CD, and LEVIR-CD demonstrate that Freq-RemoteVAR consistently outperforms existing methods, particularly in challenging scenarios with complex appearance variations and noisy disturbances.

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