A hybrid U‐shaped and transformer network for change detection in high‐resolution remote sensing images

Abstract

AbstractDeep convolutional neural networks based remote sensing change detection has recently shown significant performance improvement. However, small region changes and global‐local features in high‐resolution remote sensing images are not fully explored. This paper introduces a hybrid U‐shaped and transformer network for change detection in high‐resolution remote sensing images. Specifically, a UNet++‐based backbone to facilitate feature learning across different scales. In addition, we introduce a transformer‐based feature fusion module for extracting long‐range dependencies, which can enhance the representation ability of the network. Furthermore, the introduced efficient channel attention mechanism can efficiently calibrate the feature representation and concentrate on more important feature information. Thanks to the above designs, the proposed method enjoys a strong ability to extract local and global features for remote sensing change detection. Extensive experimental results on different remote sensing images show that our method can achieve superior performance in comparison with state‐of‐the‐art change detection methods.