📝 Selected Publications
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Rmote Sensing Image Segmentation

SegEarth-R1: Geospatial Pixel Reasoning via Large Language Model
Kaiyu Li, Zepeng Xin, Li Pang, Chao Pang, Yupeng Deng, Jing Yao, Guisong Xia, Deyu Meng, Zhi Wang, Xiangyong Cao
- We introduce the geospatial pixel reasoning task, construct the first benchmark dataset (EarthReason), and propose a simple yet effective baseline (SegEarth-R1).
Media coverage: 【遥感与深度学习】SegEarth-R1: 遥感+推理大模型!Geospatial Pixel Reasoning|【视觉与遥感前沿】SegEarth-R1实现地理推理「类人思考」|【减论】|

SegEarth-OV: Towards Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images
Kaiyu Li, Ruixun Liu, Xiangyong Cao, Xueru Bai, Feng Zhou, Deyu Meng, Zhi Wang
- SegEarth-OV is the first to introduce training-free Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation into remote sensing images, which makes OVSS possible in remote sensing contexts.
Media coverage: 【遥感与深度学习】SegEarth-OV: 面向遥感图像的无训练开放词汇分割|【GISer阿兴】|【减论】|
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[Semi-supervised Segmentation] RS-MTDF: Multi-Teacher Distillation and Fusion for Remote Sensing Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation, Jiayi Song*, Kaiyu Li*, Xiangyong Cao, Deyu Meng. arXiv 2025. Code.
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[Few-shot Segmentation] Class Similarity Transition: Decoupling Class Similarities and Imbalance from Generalized Few-shot Segmentation, Shihong Wang*, Ruixun Liu*, Kaiyu Li*, Jiawei Jiang, Xiangyong Cao. CVPRW’2024. Code. 🏆️The 2nd place in the CVPR 2024 OpenEarthMap Land Cover Mapping Few-Shot Challenge.
Remote Sensing Image Change Detection

DynamicEarth: How Far are We from Open-Vocabulary Change Detection?
Kaiyu Li, Xiangyong Cao, Yupeng Deng, Chao Pang, Zepeng Xin, Deyu Meng, Zhi Wang
- We propose a new task, open-vocabulary change detection (OVCD).
- We propose two universal frameworks for OVCD.
- The first OVCD codebase, DynamicEarth, is released.

Open-CD: A Comprehensive Toolbox for Change Detection
Kaiyu Li, Jiawei Jiang, Andrea Codegoni, Chengxi Han, Yupeng Deng, Keyan Chen, Zhuo Zheng, Hao Chen, Zhengxia Zou, Zhenwei Shi, Sheng Fang, Deyu Meng, Zhi Wang, Xiangyong Cao
- Open-CD is one of the most popular change detection toolkits.
- We launch the Open-CD Technical Report Plan (Open-CD TRP for shot). We invite some authors to introduce their algorithms and participate in the construction of the Open-CD codebase. This plan is under active development and we will keep this report updated.

SemiCD-VL: Visual-Language Model Guidance Makes Better Semi-supervised Change Detector
Kaiyu Li, Xiangyong Cao, Yupeng Deng, Junmin Liu, Deyu Meng, Zhi Wang
- This work is the first to introduce visual language models to the semi-supervised change detection task.

A New Learning Paradigm for Foundation Model-based Remote Sensing Change Detection
Kaiyu Li, Xiangyong Cao, Deyu Meng
🏆️ ESI Highly Cited Paper
- BAN is the first universal framework to adapt the foundation model to the change detection task.
- [Supervised Change Detection] Changer: Feature interaction is what you need for change detection, Sheng Fang, Kaiyu Li†, Zhe Li. TGRS 2023. 🏆️ ESI Highly Cited Paper. Code
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- [Supervised Change Detection] SNUNet-CD: A densely connected Siamese network for change detection of VHR images, Sheng Fang, Kaiyu Li†, Jinyuan Shao, Zhe Li. GRSL 2021. 🏆️ ESI Highly Cited Paper. Code
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- [Change Captioning] MV-CC: Mask Enhanced Video Model for Remote Sensing Change Captioning, Ruixun Liu*, Kaiyu Li*, Jiayi Song*, Dongwei Sun, Xiangyong Cao. arXiv 2024. Code.
Others
- [UAV Tracking] Dist-Tracker: A Small Object-aware Detector and Tracker for UAV Tracking, Wenzhen Wang*, Jing Fu*, Jiayi Song*, Kaiyu Li*, Hui Qiao, Jiang Liu, Hao Sun, Xiangyong Cao. CVPRW 2025. Code.
- [Zero-shot Hyperspectral Image Classification] SPECIAL: Zero-shot Hyperspectral Image Classification With CLIP, Li Pang, Jing Yao, Kaiyu Li, Xiangyong Cao. arXiv 2025. Code.
- [Road Graph Extraction] Towards Satellite Image Road Graph Extraction: A Global-Scale Dataset and A Novel Method, Pan Yin*, Kaiyu Li*, Xiangyong Cao, Jing Yao, Lei Liu, Xueru Bai, Feng Zhou, Deyu Meng. CVPR 2025. Code.
- [Agriculture] RepDI: A light-weight CPU network for apple leaf disease identification, Jiye Zheng, Kaiyu Li†, Wenbin Wu, Huaijun Ruan. COMPAG 2023. Code.
- [Skeleton Extraction] CAMION: Cascade Multi-input Multi-output Network for Skeleton Extraction, Sheng Fang, Kaiyu Li†, Zhe Li. CVPRW 2022.
- [Multi-modal Remote Sensing] S²ENet: Spatial–Spectral Cross-Modal Enhancement Network for Classification of Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data, Sheng Fang, Kaiyu Li†, Zhe Li. GRSL 2022. Code. 🏆️ ESI Highly Cited Paper