A Transformer-Based Siamese Network for Change Detection

4 Jan 2022  ·  Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara, Vishal M. Patel ·

This paper presents a transformer-based Siamese network architecture (abbreviated by ChangeFormer) for Change Detection (CD) from a pair of co-registered remote sensing images. Different from recent CD frameworks, which are based on fully convolutional networks (ConvNets), the proposed method unifies hierarchically structured transformer encoder with Multi-Layer Perception (MLP) decoder in a Siamese network architecture to efficiently render multi-scale long-range details required for accurate CD. Experiments on two CD datasets show that the proposed end-to-end trainable ChangeFormer architecture achieves better CD performance than previous counterparts. Our code is available at https://github.com/wgcban/ChangeFormer.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Building change detection for remote sensing images LEVIR-CD ChangeFormer F1 90.40 # 24
IoU 82.48 # 17
Change Detection LEVIR-CD ChangeFormer F1 90.4 # 15
IoU 82.48 # 10
Overall Accuracy 99.04 # 6

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