Change detection network for heterogeneous remote sensing images with differential augmentation
The purpose of this study is to address the issues of loss of differential information and false detections of small and medium-sized targets caused by the direct summation of the original images in the existing change detection methods using single-branch networks. A change detection network based on U-Net with binding difference enhancement was proposed. First,the differential image is passed through a channel attention mechanism to learn the distinctiveness of each channel in feature representation,generating weights that are relevant to each channel. Furthermore,the weights obtained are used to perform a weighted sum with the original images,and then the two enhanced images are merged to be fed into the network. Then,the dense residual block is used to strengthen the encoder information transmission and reuse. Finally,the detection results are further refined using convolutions of different forms and scales. Compared with the mainstream methods in the Sardinia and Shuguang datasets,the OA of the proposed method was increased by 1. 27 and 0. 74 percentage points respectively,compared with the MUNet,F1 was improved by 5. 32 and 1. 75 percentage points respectively. The conclusion is that the proposed method can fully utilize the differential information and has high segmentation ability for small and medium targets as well as edge details.