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However, this is much more difficult than simple binary tasks, as the changing areas typically include multiple terrains such as factories, farmland, roads, buildings, and mining areas. This requires the ability of the network to extract features. To this end, we propose a multi-branch collaborative change-detection network based on Siamese structure (MHCNet). In the model, three branches, the difference branch, global branch, and similar branch, are constructed to refine and extract semantic information from remote-sensing images. Four modules, a cross-scale feature-attention module (CSAM), global semantic filtering module (GSFM), double-branch information-fusion module (DBIFM), and similarity-enhancement module (SEM), are proposed to assist the three branches to extract semantic information better. The CSFM module is used to extract the semantic information related to the change in the remote-sensing image from the difference branch, the GSFM module is used to filter the rich semantic information in the remote-sensing image, and the DBIFM module is used to fuse the semantic information extracted from the difference branch and the global branch. 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