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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</journal-id>
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<journal-title>ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Annals</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">ISPRS Ann. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9050</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-annals-XI-3-2026-523-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>ChangeDINO: DINOv3-Driven Building Change Detection in Optical Remote Sensing Imagery</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Cheng</surname>
<given-names>Ching-Heng</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0887-9734</ext-link>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Hsu</surname>
<given-names>Chih Chung</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Inst. of Data Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Inst. of Intelligent Systems College of Artificial Intelligence, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>08</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XI-3-2026</volume>
<fpage>523</fpage>
<lpage>530</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Ching-Heng Cheng</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) aims to identify pixel-wise surface changes from co-registered bi-temporal images. However, many deep learning&amp;ndash;based RSCD methods rely solely on change-map annotations and underuse the semantic information in non-changing regions, which limits robustness under illumination variation, off-nadir views, and scarce labels. This paper presents ChangeDINO, an end-to-end multiscale Siamese framework for optical building change detection. The model fuses a lightweight backbone stream with features transferred from a frozen DINOv3, yielding semantic- and context-rich pyramids even on small datasets. A spatial&amp;ndash;spectral differential transformer decoder then exploits multi-scale absolute differences as change priors to highlight true building changes and suppress irrelevant responses. Finally, a learnable morphology module refines the upsampled logits to recover clean boundaries. Experiments on four public benchmarks demonstrate that ChangeDINO achieves strong accuracy and robustness under cross-temporal appearance variations, yielding cleaner building boundaries with improved data efficiency.</p>
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