| SOTA | state of the art |
| BA2Net | boundary-aware attentive network |
| CM | change map |
| CCM | coarse change map |
| RCM | refined change map |
| VHR | very high resolution |
| SAR | synthetic aperture radar |
| CNN | convolutional neural network |
| DBN | deep brief network |
| SDAE | sparse de-noising autoEncoder |
| FCN | fully convolutional network |
| BN | batch normalize |
| ReLU | rectified linear unit |
| AG | attention gate |
| GT | ground truth |
| TP | true positive |
| TN | true negative |
| FP | false positive |
| FN | false negative |
| OA | overall accuracy |
| CE | cross entropy |
| BCE | binary cross entropy |
| SSIM | structural similarity |
| HVS | human visual system |
| CD-Net | change detection network |
| FC-EF | fully convolutional early fusion |
| FC-Siam-conc | fully convolutional Siamese concatenation |
| FC-Siam-diff | fully convolutional Siamese difference |
| FCN-PP | fully convolutional network with pyramid pooling |
| DSCN | deep Siamese convolutional network |
| DSMS | deep Siamese multiScale |
| MSOF | multiple side-outputs fusion |
| IFN | image fusion network |