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Article

MISA-Net: Multi-Scale Interaction and Supervised Attention Network for Remote-Sensing Image Change Detection

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Collaborative Innovation Center on Atmospheric Environment and Equipment Technology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, No. 219, Ningliu Road, Nanjing 210044, China
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Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6DH, UK
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Remote Sens. 2026, 18(2), 376; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020376
Submission received: 4 December 2025 / Revised: 18 January 2026 / Accepted: 19 January 2026 / Published: 22 January 2026

Abstract

Change detection in remote sensing imagery plays a vital role in land use analysis, disaster assessment, and ecological monitoring. However, existing remote sensing change detection methods often lack a structured and tightly coupled interaction paradigm to jointly reconcile multi-scale representation, bi-temporal discrimination, and fine-grained boundary modeling under practical computational constraints. To address this fundamental challenge, we propose a Multi-scale Interaction and Supervised Attention Network (MISANet). To improve the model’s ability to perceive changes at multiple scales, we design a Progressive Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Module (PMFFM), which employs a progressive fusion strategy to effectively integrate multi-granular cross-scale features. To enhance the interaction between bi-temporal features, we introduce a Difference-guided Gated Attention Interaction (DGAI) module. This component leverages difference information between the two time phases and employs a gating mechanism to retain fine-grained details, thereby improving semantic consistency. Furthermore, to guide the model’s focus on change regions, we design a Supervised Attention Decoder Module (SADM). This module utilizes a channel–spatial joint attention mechanism to reweight the feature maps. In addition, a deep supervision strategy is incorporated to direct the model’s attention toward both fine-grained texture differences and high-level semantic changes during training. Experiments conducted on the LEVIR-CD, SYSU-CD, and GZ-CD datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, achieving F1-scores of 91.19%, 82.25%, and 88.35%, respectively. Compared with the state-of-the-art BASNet model, MISANet achieves performance gains of 0.50% F1 and 0.85% IoU on LEVIR-CD, 2.13% F1 and 3.02% IoU on SYSU-CD, and 1.28% F1 and 2.03% IoU on GZ-CD. The proposed method demonstrates strong generalization capabilities and is applicable to various complex change detection scenarios.
Keywords: remote sensing image; change detection; deep learning; multi-scale feature fusion; attention mechanism; deep supervision remote sensing image; change detection; deep learning; multi-scale feature fusion; attention mechanism; deep supervision

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Yin, H.; Wang, J.; Liu, S.; Wang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Guo, T.; Xia, M. MISA-Net: Multi-Scale Interaction and Supervised Attention Network for Remote-Sensing Image Change Detection. Remote Sens. 2026, 18, 376. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020376

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Yin H, Wang J, Liu S, Wang Y, Liu Y, Guo T, Xia M. MISA-Net: Multi-Scale Interaction and Supervised Attention Network for Remote-Sensing Image Change Detection. Remote Sensing. 2026; 18(2):376. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020376

Chicago/Turabian Style

Yin, Haoyu, Junzhe Wang, Shengyan Liu, Yuqi Wang, Yi Liu, Tengyue Guo, and Min Xia. 2026. "MISA-Net: Multi-Scale Interaction and Supervised Attention Network for Remote-Sensing Image Change Detection" Remote Sensing 18, no. 2: 376. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020376

APA Style

Yin, H., Wang, J., Liu, S., Wang, Y., Liu, Y., Guo, T., & Xia, M. (2026). MISA-Net: Multi-Scale Interaction and Supervised Attention Network for Remote-Sensing Image Change Detection. Remote Sensing, 18(2), 376. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18020376

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