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This paper studies image-based geo-localization (IBL) problem using ground-to-aerial cross-view matching. The goal is to predict the spatial location of a ground-level query image by matching it to a large geotagged aerial image database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Liu Liu , Hongdong Li

The large variation of viewpoint and irrelevant content around the target always hinder accurate image retrieval and its subsequent tasks. In this paper, we investigate an extremely challenging task: given a ground-view image of a landmark,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zelong Zeng , Zheng Wang , Fan Yang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Nowadays the accurate geo-localization of ground-view images has an important role across domains as diverse as journalism, forensics analysis, transports, and Earth Observation. This work addresses the problem of matching a query…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Francesco Pro , Nikolaos Dionelis , Luca Maiano , Bertrand Le Saux , Irene Amerini

Cross-view localization aims to estimate the 3-DoF pose of a ground-view image by aligning it with aerial or satellite imagery. Existing methods typically address this task through direct regression or feature alignment in a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Panwang Xia , Qiong Wu , Lei Yu , Yi Liu , Mingtao Xiong , Xudong Lu , Yi Liu , Haoyu Guo , Yongxiang Yao , Junjian Zhang , Xiangyuan Cai , Hongwei Hu , Zhi Zheng , Yongjun Zhang , Yi Wan

The task of cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the geo-location (GPS coordinates) of a query ground-view image by matching it with the GPS-tagged aerial (satellite) images in a reference dataset. Due to the dramatic changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Bin Sun , Chen Chen , Yingying Zhu , Jianmin Jiang

The ground-to-satellite image matching/retrieval was initially proposed for city-scale ground camera localization. This work addresses the problem of improving camera pose accuracy by ground-to-satellite image matching after a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora

This paper proposes a novel method for vision-based metric cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) that matches the camera images captured from a ground-based vehicle with an aerial image to determine the vehicle's geo-pose. Since aerial images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

In this paper, we present a high-performing solution to the UAVM 2025 Challenge, which focuses on matching narrow FOV street-level images to corresponding satellite imagery using the University-1652 dataset. As panoramic Cross-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xiaohan Zhang , Tavis Shore , Chen Chen , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Safwan Wshah

Cross-view geo-localization identifies the locations of street-view images by matching them with geo-tagged satellite images or OSM. However, most existing studies focus on image-to-image retrieval, with fewer addressing text-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Junyan Ye , Honglin Lin , Leyan Ou , Dairong Chen , Zihao Wang , Qi Zhu , Conghui He , Weijia Li

Cross-view geo-localization aims at establishing location correspondences between different viewpoints. Existing approaches typically learn cross-view correlations through direct feature similarity matching, often overlooking semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Zhenyu Kuang

For high-level geo-spatial applications and intelligent robotics, accurate global pose information is of crucial importance. Map-aided localization is a universal approach to overcome the limitations of global navigation satellite system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Chunxi Xia , Xuanbin Wang , Shaoquan Feng

We propose an image-based cross-view geolocalization method that estimates the global pose of a UAV with the aid of georeferenced satellite imagery. Our method consists of two Siamese neural networks that extract relevant features despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Akshay Shetty , Grace Xingxin Gao

Despite the remarkable advances in image matching and pose estimation, image-based localization of a camera in a temporally-varying outdoor environment is still a challenging problem due to huge appearance disparity between query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shen Yan , Yu Liu , Long Wang , Zehong Shen , Zhen Peng , Haomin Liu , Maojun Zhang , Guofeng Zhang , Xiaowei Zhou

The existing work in cross-view geo-localization is based on images where a ground panorama is matched to an aerial image. In this work, we focus on ground videos instead of images which provides additional contextual cues which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Shruti Vyas , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we propose to go beyond the well-established approach to vision-based localization that relies on visual descriptor matching between a query image and a 3D point cloud. While matching keypoints via visual descriptors makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qunjie Zhou , Sérgio Agostinho , Aljosa Osep , Laura Leal-Taixé

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Mi , Chang Xu , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Syrielle Montariol , Wen Yang , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

Robot localization remains a challenging task in GPS denied environments. State estimation approaches based on local sensors, e.g. cameras or IMUs, are drifting-prone for long-range missions as error accumulates. In this study, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Cross-view image geolocalization provides an estimate of an agent's global position by matching a local ground image to an overhead satellite image without the need for GPS. It is challenging to reliably match a ground image to the correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Lena M. Downes , Dong-Ki Kim , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

Image geolocalization has traditionally been addressed through retrieval-based place recognition or geometry-based visual localization pipelines. Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong zero-shot reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Siddhant Bharadwaj , Ashish Vashist , Fahimul Aleem , Shruti Vyas