MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122934 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 5, 2025, for 'lightweight deep learning models for urban change detection.'

Inventor(s) include Dr. Annapurna Jonnalagadda; and Thikkireddy Srikara Rao.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a system for urban change detection including an image processing module configured to receive first and second temporal images of an urban area captured at different time periods and preprocess them by resizing to standardized dimen...