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Unsupervised Bayesian change detection for remotely sensed images

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The availability of remote sensing images with high spectral, spatial and temporal resolutions has motivated the design of new change detection (CD) methods for surveying changes in a studied area. The challenge of unsupervised CD is to develop flexible automatic models to estimate changes. In this paper, we propose a novel hierarchical Bayesian model for CD. Our main contribution lies in the application of Bernoulli-based models to change detection and transforming it to a denoising problem. The originality is related to the capacity of these models to act as implicit classifiers in addition to the denoising effect since even for changed pixels noise is also removed. The second originality lies in the way inference is conducted. Specifically, the hierarchical Bayesian model and Gibbs sampler ensure building an algorithm with secure convergence guarantees. Experiments performed on real data indicate the benefit that can be drawn from our approach.

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This work is supported by the Tunisian program “Projets de Recherche Fédérés” of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research under the project “Supervision Sensitive de lieux Sensibles multi-capteurs : Super-Sense”.

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  1. SUP’COM, LR11TIC04, COSIM Lab, University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

    Walma Gharbi & Amel Benazza-Benyahia

  2. Digital Research Centre of Sfax, University of Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Walma Gharbi

  3. IRIT-ENSEEIHT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Lotfi Chaari

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Gharbi, W., Chaari, L. & Benazza-Benyahia, A. Unsupervised Bayesian change detection for remotely sensed images. SIViP 15, 205–213 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11760-020-01738-9

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