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Recently, deep learning (DL)-based methods have become dominant in change detection due to their outstanding performance. Remote sensing (RS) images contain different sizes of ground objects, so the information at different scales is crucial for change detection. However, the existing DL-based methods only employ summation or concatenation to aggregate several layers of features, lacking the semantic association of different layers. On the other hand, the UNet-like backbone is favored by deep learning algorithms, but the gradual downscaling and upscaling operation in the mainstream UNet-like backbone has the problem of misalignment, which further affects the accuracy of change detection. In this paper, we innovatively propose a hierarchical feature association and global correction network (HFA-GCN) for change detection. Specifically, a hierarchical feature association module is meticulously designed to model the correlation relationship among different scale features due to the redundant but complementary information among them. Moreover, a global correction module on Transformer is proposed to alleviate the feature misalignment in the UNet-like backbone, which, through feature reuse, extracts global information to reduce false alarms and missed alarms. Experiments were conducted on several publicly available databases, and the experimental results show the proposed method is superior to the existing state-of-the-art change detection models.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15174141","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,24]],"date-time":"2023-08-24T10:23:40Z","timestamp":1692872620000},"page":"4141","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Hierarchical Feature Association and Global Correction Network for Change Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Jinquan","family":"Lu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Xiangchao","family":"Meng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Qiang","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiyong","family":"Lv","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, Xi\u2019an University of Technology, Xi\u2019an 710048, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7001-2037","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gang","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Spatial Information Techniques, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Weiwei","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography and Spatial Information Techniques, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"44","DOI":"10.1109\/MGRS.2021.3088865","article-title":"Land cover change detection techniques: Very-high-resolution optical images: A review","volume":"10","author":"Lv","year":"2021","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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