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High-accuracy fully supervised methods are the main methods for CD tasks at present. However, these methods require a large amount of labeled data consisting of bi-temporal images and their change maps. Moreover, creating change maps takes a lot of labor and time. To address this limitation, a simple semi-supervised change detection method based on consistency regularization and strong augmentation is proposed in this paper. First, we construct a Siamese nested UNet with graph attention mechanism (SANet) and pre-train it with a small amount of labeled data. Then, we feed the unlabeled data into the pre-trained SANet and confidence threshold filter to obtain pseudo-labels with high confidence. At the same time, we produce distorted images by performing strong augmentation on unlabeled data. The model is trained to make the CD results of the distorted images consistent with the corresponding pseudo-label. Extensive experiments are conducted on two high-resolution remote sensing datasets. The results demonstrate that our method can effectively improve the performance of change detection under insufficient labels. Our methods can increase the IoU by more than 25% compared to the state-of-the-art methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14122801","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,12]],"date-time":"2022-06-12T23:55:24Z","timestamp":1655078124000},"page":"2801","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["SemiSANet: A Semi-Supervised High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Change Detection Model Using Siamese Networks with Graph Attention"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Chengzhe","family":"Sun","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cognitive Communication, College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Jiangjiang","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cognitive Communication, College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7880-3394","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cognitive Communication, College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Natural Resources Monitoring and Supervision in Southern Hilly Region, Ministry of Natural Resources, Changsha 410083, China"}]},{"given":"Chun","family":"Du","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Cognitive Communication, College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Shi, W., Zhang, M., Zhang, R., Chen, S., and Zhan, Z. 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