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Fine-grained image search is still a challenging problem due to the difficulty in capturing subtle differences regardless of pose variations of objects from fine-grained categories. In practice, a dynamic inventory with new fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Kevin Lin , Fan Yang , Qiaosong Wang , Robinson Piramuthu

Geo-localization is the task of identifying the location of an image using visual cues alone. It has beneficial applications, such as improving disaster response, enhancing navigation, and geography education. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Oliver Grainge , Sania Waheed , Jack Stilgoe , Michael Milford , Shoaib Ehsan

Street-to-aerial image geo-localization, which matches a query street-view image to the GPS-tagged aerial images in a reference set, has attracted increasing attention recently. In this paper, we revisit this problem and point out the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen

Learning to recognize novel visual categories from a few examples is a challenging task for machines in real-world industrial applications. In contrast, humans have the ability to discriminate even similar objects with little supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Xin Sun , Hongwei Xv , Junyu Dong , Qiong Li , Changrui Chen

Geolocation, the task of identifying an image's location, requires complex reasoning and is crucial for navigation, monitoring, and cultural preservation. However, current methods often produce coarse, imprecise, and non-interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zirui Song , Jingpu Yang , Yuan Huang , Jonathan Tonglet , Zeyu Zhang , Tao Cheng , Meng Fang , Iryna Gurevych , Xiuying Chen

We focus on the real-world problem of training accurate deep models for image classification of a small number of rare categories. In these scenarios, almost all images belong to the background category in the dataset (>95% of the dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Ravi Teja Mullapudi , Fait Poms , William R. Mark , Deva Ramanan , Kayvon Fatahalian

Recent advances in Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual reasoning tasks. However, geo-localization presents unique challenges, requiring the extraction of multigranular visual cues from images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chun Wang , Xiaojun Ye , Xiaoran Pan , Zihao Pan , Haofan Wang , Yiren Song

Vision-language pretraining models have made significant progress in bridging remote sensing imagery with natural language. However, existing approaches often fail to effectively integrate multi-granular visual and textual information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiao Yang , Ronghao Fu , Zhuoran Duan , Zhiwen Lin , Xueyan Liu , Bo Yang

With the widespread availability of cellphones and cameras that have GPS capabilities, it is common for images being uploaded to the Internet today to have GPS coordinates associated with them. In addition to research that tries to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Kevin Tang , Manohar Paluri , Li Fei-Fei , Rob Fergus , Lubomir Bourdev

Worldwide Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth. This task has considerable challenges due to immense variation in geographic landscapes. The image-to-image retrieval-based approaches fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

Identifying subordinate-level categories from images is a longstanding task in computer vision and is referred to as fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR). It has tremendous significance in real-world applications since an average…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Mingxuan Liu , Subhankar Roy , Wenjing Li , Zhun Zhong , Nicu Sebe , Elisa Ricci

Learning to navigate to an image-specified goal is an important but challenging task for autonomous systems. The agent is required to reason the goal location from where a picture is shot. Existing methods try to solve this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xinyu Sun , Peihao Chen , Jugang Fan , Thomas H. Li , Jian Chen , Mingkui Tan

Fine-grained classification often requires recognizing specific object parts, such as beak shape and wing patterns for birds. Encouraging a fine-grained classification model to first detect such parts and then using them to infer the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Robert van der Klis , Stephan Alaniz , Massimiliano Mancini , Cassio F. Dantas , Dino Ienco , Zeynep Akata , Diego Marcos

Current approaches for fine-grained recognition do the following: First, recruit experts to annotate a dataset of images, optionally also collecting more structured data in the form of part annotations and bounding boxes. Second, train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Jonathan Krause , Benjamin Sapp , Andrew Howard , Howard Zhou , Alexander Toshev , Tom Duerig , James Philbin , Li Fei-Fei

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to fine-grained cross-view geo-localization. Our method aligns a warped ground image with a corresponding GPS-tagged satellite image covering the same area using homography estimation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Xiaolong Wang , Runsen Xu , Zuofan Cui , Zeyu Wan , Yu Zhang

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging task due to the large intra-class variance and small inter-class variance, aiming at recognizing hundreds of sub-categories belonging to the same basic-level category. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

Traditional fine-grained image classification typically relies on large-scale training samples with annotated ground-truth. However, some sub-categories have few available samples in real-world applications, and current few-shot models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Hegui Zhu , Zhan Gao , Jiayi Wang , Yange Zhou , Chengqing Li

We present a novel deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) system for fine-grained image classification, called a mixture of DCNNs (MixDCNN). The fine-grained image classification problem is characterised by large intra-class variations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-01 ZongYuan Ge , Alex Bewley , Christopher McCool , Ben Upcroft , Peter Corke , Conrad Sanderson

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

Road network extraction from satellite images is widely applicated in intelligent traffic management and autonomous driving fields. The high-resolution remote sensing images contain complex road areas and distracted background, which make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yijia Xu , Liqiang Zhang , Wuming Zhang , Suhong Liu , Jingwen Li , Xingang Li , Yuebin Wang , Yang Li