AFDE-Net: Building Change Detection using Attention-Based Feature Differential Enhancement for Satellite Imagery

Shimaa Holail ResearchgateShimaa Holail Linkedin, Tamer Saleh, Xiongwu Xiao, and Deren Li

The train and test code will be released soon. The EGY-BCD dataset is available.

Updates

⚡	AFDE-Net has been Published in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL). DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2023.3283505

💬 EGY-BCD Dataset Description

Bi-temporal images in the EGY-BCD dataset are taken from 4 different regions located in Egypt, including New Mansoura, El Galala City, New Cairo, and New Thebes. The figure below shows the building changes in New Mansoura City and New Thebes. Our image data capture time varies from 2017 to 2022. The images feature seasonal changes and different lighting changes in our new dataset, which can help develop effective methods that can mitigate the impact of unrelated changes on real changes.

💬 Network Architecture

An overview of the proposed architecture. (a) is the backbone of ADFE-Net. The node $Xi$ features denotes a convolutional block as shown in (b). The feature differential enhancement FDE is described in (c). (d) is the ensemble spatial-channel attention fusion ESCAF.

💬 Quantitative and Qualitative Results on the EGY-BCD Dataset

👉 Quantitative Results

👉 Qualitative Results

💬 Requirements

Python 3.7
Pytorch 1.7

Please see requirements.txt for all the other requirements.

🔭 Baselines

Encoders

Below is a list of encoders used in this work and their pre-trained weights.

ResNet

Encoder	Weights	Params, M
resnet50	imagenet / ssl / swsl	23M
resnet101	imagenet	42M

RegNet(x/y)

Encoder	Weights	Params, M
timm-regnety_120	imagenet	49M
timm-regnety_160	imagenet	80M
timm-regnety_320	imagenet	141M

💬 Dataset Preparation

👉 Data Structure

"""
EGY-BCD dataset with pixel-level binary labels；
├————train
|      ├———A  
|      ├———B
|      ├———label
|
├————val
|      ├———A  
|      ├———B
|      ├———label
|
├————test
|      ├———A  
|      ├———B
|      ├———label
"""

A: Images of Time1; B:Images of Time2; label: Ground Truth; each file contains the image names (XXXX.png)

🚚 Datasets

You can download our novel public EGY-BCD dataset through the following link:

[EGY-BCD]baidu drive Passward: (EGYD)
[EGY-BCD]google drive

📃 Citing

@ARTICLE{10145434,
  author={Shimaa Holail, Tamer Saleh, Xiongwu Xiao, and Deren Li},
  journal={in IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters}, 
  title={AFDE-Net: Building Change Detection Using Attention-Based Feature Differential Enhancement for Satellite Imagery}, 
  year={2023},
  volume={20},
  number={6006405},
  pages={1-5},
  doi={10.1109/LGRS.2023.3283505}}

Contact Information

If you have any question about EGY-BCD dataset, please contact shimaaholail@whu.edu.cn

💬 References

Appreciate the work from the following repositories:

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