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+# Fully Convolutional Siamese Networks for Change Detection
+
+This is an unofficial implementation of the paper
+
+> Rodrigo Caye Daudt, Bertrand Le Saux, Alexandre Boulch. (2018, October). Fully convolutional siamese networks for change detection. In 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) (pp. 4063-4067). IEEE.
+ 
+as the [official repo](https://github.com/rcdaudt/fully_convolutional_change_detection) does not provide the training code. 
+
+[paper link](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8451652)
+
+# Usage
+
+```bash
+# The network definition scripts are from the original repo
+git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:Bobholamovic/FCN-CD-PyTorch.git   
+```
+
+```bash
+cd src
+python train.py train --exp-config ../config_base.yaml
+```
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