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Fine-grained visual categorization is a classification task for distinguishing categories with high intra-class and small inter-class variance. While global approaches aim at using the whole image for performing the classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Dimitri Korsch , Paul Bodesheim , Joachim Denzler

The concept of geo-localization refers to the process of determining where on earth some `entity' is located, typically using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. The entity of interest may be an image, sequence of images, a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniel Wilson , Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

We present a novel approach to geolocalising panoramic images on a 2-D cartographic map based on learning a low dimensional embedded space, which allows a comparison between an image captured at a location and local neighbourhoods of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Noe Samano , Mengjie Zhou , Andrew Calway

We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Scott Workman , Richard Souvenir , Nathan Jacobs

Image geolocalization, the task of determining an image's geographic origin, poses significant challenges, largely due to visual similarities across disparate locations and the large search space. To address these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Narges Ghasemi , Amir Ziashahabi , Salman Avestimehr , Cyrus Shahabi

Worldwide image geolocalization-the task of predicting GPS coordinates from images taken anywhere on Earth-poses a fundamental challenge due to the vast diversity in visual content across regions. While recent approaches adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Pengyue Jia , Seongheon Park , Song Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Sharon Li

Street-view imagery provides us with novel experiences to explore different places remotely. Carefully calibrated street-view images (e.g. Google Street View) can be used for different downstream tasks, e.g. navigation, map features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Wenmiao Hu , Yichen Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Yifang Yin , Andrei Georgescu , An Tran , Hannes Kruppa , See-Kiong Ng , Roger Zimmermann

Worldwide visual geo-localization aims to determine the geographic location of an image anywhere on Earth using only its visual content. Despite recent progress, learning expressive representations of geographic space remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Angel Daruna , Nicholas Meegan , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Vision based localization is the problem of inferring the pose of the camera given a single image. One solution to this problem is to learn a deep neural network to infer the pose of a query image after learning on a dataset of images with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Carlos Lassance , Yasir Latif , Ravi Garg , Vincent Gripon , Ian Reid

Maps are a key component in image-based camera localization and visual SLAM systems: they are used to establish geometric constraints between images, correct drift in relative pose estimation, and relocalize cameras after lost tracking. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , James Hays , Jan Kautz

Worldwide geo-localization involves determining the exact geographic location of images captured globally, typically guided by geographic cues such as climate, landmarks, and architectural styles. Despite advancements in geo-localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Furong Jia , Lanxin Liu , Ce Hou , Fan Zhang , Xinyan Liu , Yu Liu

Visual geolocalization is a cost-effective and scalable task that involves matching one or more query images, taken at some unknown location, to a set of geo-tagged reference images. Existing methods, devoted to semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Boni Hu , Lin Chen , Runjian Chen , Shuhui Bu , Pengcheng Han , Haowei Li

Given a set of images containing objects from the same category, the task of image co-localization is to identify and localize each instance. This paper shows that this problem can be solved by a simple but intriguing idea, that is, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Yao Li , Linqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Land use mapping is a fundamental yet challenging task in geographic science. In contrast to land cover mapping, it is generally not possible using overhead imagery. The recent, explosive growth of online geo-referenced photo collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Cross-View Geo-Localisation is still a challenging task where additional modules, specific pre-processing or zooming strategies are necessary to determine accurate positions of images. Since different views have different geometries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Norbert Oswald

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to estimate the location of an image by treating it as a retrieval problem. VPR uses a database of geo-tagged images and leverages deep neural networks to extract a global representation, called…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mattia Dutto , Gabriele Berton , Debora Caldarola , Eros Fanì , Gabriele Trivigno , Carlo Masone

Geo-localization is a critical task in computer vision. In this work, we cast the geo-localization as a 2D image retrieval task. Current state-of-the-art methods for 2D geo-localization are not robust to locate a scene with drastic scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Liqi Yan , Yiming Cui , Yingjie Chen , Dongfang Liu

We demonstrate how language can improve geolocation: the task of predicting the location where an image was taken. Here we study explicit knowledge from human-written guidebooks that describe the salient and class-discriminative visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Grace Luo , Giscard Biamby , Trevor Darrell , Daniel Fried , Anna Rohrbach

In this paper we address the task of determining the geographical location of an image, a pertinent problem in learning and computer vision. This research was inspired from playing GeoGuessr, a game that tests a humans' ability to localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Sudharshan Suresh , Nathaniel Chodosh , Montiel Abello

Image geolocalization is the challenging task of predicting the geographic coordinates of origin for a given photo. It is an unsolved problem relying on the ability to combine visual clues with general knowledge about the world to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Lukas Haas , Silas Alberti , Michal Skreta