ECFNet: A Siamese Network With Fewer FPs and Fewer FNs for Change Detection of Remote-Sensing Images

High-resolution remote-sensing image change detection plays an important role in areas such as land and resources investigation, natural disaster prediction, and military strategy research. Current change detection methods often focus on extracting more discriminative features, while ignoring the information loss and imbalance problems in the process of feature fusion, which results in weakness in small change objects and edge pixels of change objects. In this letter, a simple but efficient network architecture, extraction, comparison and fusion network (ECFNet), for change detection in remote-sensing images is proposed. By constraining the number of feature channels in the fusion process by the feature comparison module (FCM), ECFNet can better utilize the fine-grained information in the multiscale feature map for result prediction, which not only improves the detection performance of small objects, but also reduces the false detection around the edge pixels of change objects. Experiments on the deeply supervised image fusion network for change detection (DSIFN-CD) test set show that ECFNet achieves state-of-the-art results with a small amount of computation.