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Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

In this paper, we address the problem of global-scale image geolocation, proposing a mixed classification-retrieval scheme. Unlike other methods that strictly tackle the problem as a classification or retrieval task, we combine the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Panagiotis Galopoulos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

We present an end-to-end deep network for fine-grained visual categorization called Collaborative Convolutional Network (CoCoNet). The network uses a collaborative layer after the convolutional layers to represent an image as an optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Tapabrata Chakraborti , Brendan McCane , Steven Mills , Umapada Pal

We propose a local modelling approach using deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for fine-grained image classification. Recently, deep CNNs trained from large datasets have considerably improved the performance of object recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-02 ZongYuan Ge , Chris McCool , Conrad Sanderson , Peter Corke

Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories in each basic-level category. Existing methods employ discriminative localization to find the key distinctions among subcategories. However, they generally have two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng , Junjie Zhao

Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, which dividing the Earth surface into grid cells and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhongliang Zhou , Jielu Zhang , Zihan Guan , Mengxuan Hu , Ni Lao , Lan Mu , Sheng Li , Gengchen Mai

Fine-grained classification remains a challenging task because distinguishing categories needs learning complex and local differences. Diversity in the pose, scale, and position of objects in an image makes the problem even more difficult.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Mahdi Darvish , Mahsa Pouramini , Hamid Bahador

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

Fine-grained classification is challenging because categories can only be discriminated by subtle and local differences. Variances in the pose, scale or rotation usually make the problem more difficult. Most fine-grained classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Tianjun Xiao , Yichong Xu , Kuiyuan Yang , Jiaxing Zhang , Yuxin Peng , Zheng Zhang

Planet-scale photo geolocalization is the complex task of estimating the location depicted in an image solely based on its visual content. Due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), current approaches achieve super-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Theiner , Eric Mueller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Pose variation and subtle differences in appearance are key challenges to fine-grained classification. While deep networks have markedly improved general recognition, many approaches to fine-grained recognition rely on anchoring networks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Ning Zhang , Evan Shelhamer , Yang Gao , Trevor Darrell

Accurately determining the geographic location where a single image was taken, visual geolocation, remains a formidable challenge due to the planet's vastness and the deceptive similarity among distant locations. We introduce GeoLocSFT, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qiang Yi , Lianlei Shan

Estimating the location where an image was taken based solely on the contents of the image is a challenging task, even for humans, as properly labeling an image in such a fashion relies heavily on contextual information, and is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jesse M. Johns , Jeremiah Rounds , Michael J. Henry

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging computer vision task where various species share similar visual appearances, resulting in misclassification if merely based on visual clues. Therefore, it is helpful to leverage additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Lingfeng Yang , Xiang Li , Renjie Song , Borui Zhao , Juntian Tao , Shihao Zhou , Jiajun Liang , Jian Yang

Transferring the knowledge learned from large scale datasets (e.g., ImageNet) via fine-tuning offers an effective solution for domain-specific fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) tasks (e.g., recognizing bird species or car make and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Yin Cui , Yang Song , Chen Sun , Andrew Howard , Serge Belongie

Reliable image geolocation is crucial for several applications, ranging from social media geo-tagging to fake news detection. State-of-the-art geolocation methods surpass human performance on the task of geolocation estimation from images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Apostolos Panagiotopoulos , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Symeon Papadopoulos

Text contained in an image carries high-level semantics that can be exploited to achieve richer image understanding. In particular, the mere presence of text provides strong guiding content that should be employed to tackle a diversity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Andres Mafla , Sounak Dey , Ali Furkan Biten , Lluis Gomez , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Long-term visual localization is the problem of estimating the camera pose of a given query image in a scene whose appearance changes over time. It is an important problem in practice, for example, encountered in autonomous driving. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Måns Larsson , Erik Stenborg , Carl Toft , Lars Hammarstrand , Torsten Sattler , Fredrik Kahl

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is challenging due in part to the fact that it is often difficult to acquire an enough number of training samples. To employ large models for FGVC without suffering from overfitting, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yabin Zhang , Hui Tang , Kui Jia