SATELLITE IMAGE CHANGE DETECTION USING DISJOINT INFORMATION AND LOCAL DISSIMILARITY MAP

This paper presents a new change detection technique for images taken from the sentinel-2 satellite between 2015 and 2018 in different regions of the world. These images are widely used in recent years for change detection. This technique is based on two dissimilarity measures: the Disjoint Information and the Local Dissimilarity Map. The disjoint information quantifies the dissimilarities between textures and the Local Dissimilarity Map those between structures of images. Firstly, the disjoint information is computed across the blocks of the RGB image channels and the value is multiplied by the center value of the pixel of each block. Secondly, the Local Dissimilarity Maps over the pre-processed channels and the average of the pixel values on the Local Dissimilarity Maps are computed. Finally, an extension of the Gaussian OTSU's threshold is used to detect changes in images. Experimental results on the well-known Onera Satellite Change Detection (OSCD) dataset show the effectiveness of our proposed method compared to the state-of-the-art deep learning methods.