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However, existing deep learning methods have problems with spatial information loss and insufficient feature representation, resulting in unsatisfactory effects of small objects detection and boundary positioning in high-resolution remote sensing images change detection. To address the problems, a network architecture based on 2-dimensional discrete wavelet transform and adaptive feature weighted fusion is proposed. The proposed network takes Siamese network and Nested U-Net as the backbone; 2-dimensional discrete wavelet transform is used to replace the pooling layer; and the inverse transform is used to replace the upsampling to realize image reconstruction, reduce the loss of spatial information, and fully retain the original image information. In this way, the proposed network can accurately detect changed objects of different scales and reconstruct change maps with clear boundaries. Furthermore, different feature fusion methods of different stages are proposed to fully integrate multi-scale and multi-level features and improve the comprehensive representation ability of features, so as to achieve a more refined change detection effect while reducing pseudo-changes. To verify the effectiveness and advancement of the proposed method, it is compared with seven state-of-the-art methods on two datasets of Lebedev and SenseTime from the three aspects of quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, and efficiency analysis, and the effectiveness of proposed modules is validated by an ablation study. The results of quantitative analysis and efficiency analysis show that, under the premise of taking into account the operation efficiency, our method can improve the recall while ensuring the detection precision, and realize the improvement of the overall detection performance. Specifically, it shows an average improvement of 37.9% and 12.35% on recall, and 34.76% and 11.88% on F1 with the Lebedev and SenseTime datasets, respectively, compared to other methods. The qualitative analysis shows that our method has better performance on small objects detection and boundary positioning than other methods, and a more refined change map can be obtained.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13244971","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]],"date-time":"2021-12-07T11:00:23Z","timestamp":1638874823000},"page":"4971","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Adaptive Feature Weighted Fusion Nested U-Net with Discrete Wavelet Transform for Change Detection of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Congcong","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Wenbin","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Deqin","family":"Fan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoding","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Surveying and Mapping Institute, Lands and Resource Department of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510670, China"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Beijing 100083, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"13","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2018.09.008","article-title":"Tracking annual cropland changes from 1984 to 2016 using time-series Landsat images with a change-detection and post-classification approach: Experiments from three sites in Africa","volume":"218","author":"Xu","year":"2018","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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