MMCD: Memory-Based Multimodal Change Detection

Abstract

Single-modal change detection methods based on optical or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images face challenges such as degradation due to adverse weather or noise interference. In contrast, multimodal change detection struggles with significant domain gaps between different modalities. Inspired by the SAM2 model’s temporal memory mechanism for video segmentation, this paper introduces the concept of memory into change detection and proposes a novel approach called Memory-based Multimodal Change Detection (MMCD). By treating change detection as a temporal problem and modeling remote sensing images as video sequences, the proposed method integrates historical optical images with current SAR images to enhance detection accuracy. Additionally, a difference map enhancement module is introduced to mitigate false changes caused by modality discrepancies. Experimental results show that this approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in multimodal change detection, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.