TSCCD: Temporal Self-Construction Cross-Domain Learning for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Change Detection.

Abstract

Multi-temporal hyperspectral imagery (HSI) has become a powerful tool for change detection (CD) owing to its rich spectral signatures and detailed spatial information. Nevertheless, the application of paired HSIs is constrained by the scarcity of annotated training data. While unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) offers a potential solution by transferring change detection knowledge from source to target domains, two critical limitations persist: 1) the labor-intensive process of acquiring and annotating source-domain paired samples, and 2) the suboptimal transfer performance caused by substantial cross-domain distribution discrepancies. To address these challenges, we present a Temporal Self-Construction Cross-Domain learning (TSCCD) framework for UDA-based HSI-CD. Our TSCCD framework introduces an innovative temporal self-construction mechanism that synthesizes bi-temporal source-domain data from existing HSI classification datasets while simultaneously performing initial data-level alignment. Furthermore, we develop a reweighted amplitude maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) metric to enhance feature-level domain adaptation. The proposed architecture incorporates an attention-based Kolmogorov-Arnold network (KAN) with high-frequency feature augmentation within an encoder-decoder structure to effectively capture change characteristics. Comprehensive experiments conducted on three benchmark HSI datasets demonstrate that TSCCD achieves superior performance compared to current state-of-the-art methods in HSI change detection tasks. Codes are available at https://github.com/Zhoutya/TSCCD.