CFR-Net: A Coarse-to-Fine Concatenated Dual Decoder Based on Frequency-Space-Structure Fusion for Robust Remote Sensing Change Detection
Abstract
Current state-of-the-art change detection methods face a critical dilemma: achieving robustness against non-stationary pseudo-changes (e.g., seasonal shifts and vegetation phenology) while preserving fine-grained boundary details often requires computationally expensive models. Existing lightweight approaches usually sacrifice one aspect for the other, leading to either excessive false alarms or blurred object boundaries. To address this challenge, we propose a novel coarse-to-fine refinement network, termed CFR-Net. CFR-Net adopts a dual-time Mamba-based encoder to suppress non-stationary variations and capture robust spatiotemporal dependencies, followed by a cascaded dual-decoder architecture that progressively refines change boundaries from coarse localization to fine delineation. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks (LEVIR-CD, GZ-CD, and SYSU-CD) demonstrate that CFR-Net consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Specifically, on the LEVIR-CD dataset, our model achieves an F1-score of 97.46% and requires only 6.54 G FLOPs, striking an optimal balance between accuracy and efficiency. These results confirm the effectiveness of CFR-Net for robust and efficient high-resolution remote sensing change detection. Our code is available athttps://github.com/wyyyz-web/CFR-Net.git
Fields of Study & Subjects
Remote-Sensing Image Classification
Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
Radar Systems and Signal Processing
Publication details
- Journal / source
- IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Volume
- 19
- Pages
- 19442–19458
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN