Spatial and Channel Exchange based on EfficientNet for Detecting Changes of Remote Sensing Images

Change detection is an important branch in remote sensing image processing. Deep learning has been widely used in this field. In particular, a wide variety of attention mechanisms have made great achievements. However, some models have become increasingly complex and large, often unfeasible for edge applications. This poses a major obstacle to industrial applications. In this paper, to solve the above challenges, we propose a Lightweight network structure to improve results while taking into account efficiency. Specifically, first, the shallow features are extracted by using the spatial exchange and change exchange of the down-sampling bi-temporal channel of the three-layer EfficientNet backbone network, and then the shallow features are used for low-dimensional skip-connection. After that, a hybrid dual-temporal data module is designed to mix the dual-temporal phase into a single image, then the high-dimensional low-pixel image is restored through the up-sampling. Finally the final change map is generated through the pixel-level classifier. Our method was evaluated on public datasets by evaluation indicators such as OA, IoU, F1, Recall, Precision.