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In particular, a waste of computational resources results from the frequently updated REM when the wireless environment does not change much. When the wireless environment changes a lot, the REM is not updated promptly, resulting in a decrease in REM accuracy. To overcome the above problems, this work combines the Siamese neural network and an attention mechanism in computer vision and proposes an update mechanism based on the amount of wireless environmental change starting from image data. The method compares the newly collected crowdsourced data with the constructed REM in terms of similarity. It uses similarity to measure the necessity of the REM to be updated. The algorithm in this paper can achieve a controlled update by setting a similarity threshold with good controllability. 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