Comprehensive Perturbation Consistency for Semi-Supervised Change Detection in Remote Sensing Images

Abstract

Currently, many change detection (CD) methods rely on supervised learning, which necessitates extensive manually annotated data, resulting in significant labor and time requirements. Recently, semi-supervised (SS) approaches have emerged in the CD community, which exploit large amounts of unlabeled data by utilizing consistency regularization. However, these methods do not consider the broader perturbation consistency to confer better generalization of the model. In this paper, we propose a novel SS CD framework with a comprehensive perturbation consistency called CPC, which extends perturbation consistency to the entire learning period. Specifically, our CPC combines the input, feature, and network perturbations for comprehensive perturb space. And, we design two distinct structures in practice, decoupled CPC and coupled CPC. Furthermore, we propose a change-aware input perturbation that introduces expensive annotation information to further expand the input perturb space. Extensive experiments conducted on the WHUCD, and GZ-CD datasets demonstrate that the proposal performs favorably against the state-of-the-art methods.