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RSRCC: A Remote Sensing Change QA Benchmark via Retrieval-Augmented Ranking

other · 2026-04-24

Researchers have introduced RSRCC, a new benchmark for remote sensing change question-answering. It contains 126,000 questions, split into 87,000 training, 17,100 validation, and 22,000 test instances. Unlike prior datasets that describe overall image-level differences, RSRCC focuses on localized, change-specific questions requiring fine-grained semantic reasoning. This is the first remote sensing change QA benchmark designed for such reasoning-based supervision. The dataset was constructed using a hierarchical semi-supervised curation pipeline that employs Best-of-N ranking as a final ambiguity-resolution stage. The work is published on arXiv with ID 2604.20623.

Key facts

  • RSRCC is a remote sensing change question-answering benchmark.
  • It contains 126,000 questions total.
  • Training set: 87,000 questions.
  • Validation set: 17,100 questions.
  • Test set: 22,000 questions.
  • Questions are localized and change-specific.
  • First benchmark for fine-grained reasoning in remote sensing change QA.
  • Constructed via hierarchical semi-supervised curation with Best-of-N ranking.

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  • arXiv

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