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Image geo-localization is the task of predicting the specific location of an image and requires complex reasoning across visual, geographical, and cultural contexts. While prior Vision Language Models (VLMs) have the best accuracy at this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheyuan Zhang , Runze Li , Tasnim Kabir , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging yet challenging task that allows users to search for target images using a multimodal query, comprising a reference image and a modification text specifying the user's desired changes to the…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xuemeng Song , Haoqiang Lin , Haokun Wen , Bohan Hou , Mingzhu Xu , Liqiang Nie

Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haoyuan Li , Wen Yang , Fang Xu , Hong Tan , Haijian Zhang , Shengyang Li , Gui-Song Xia

Geometric differences between cross-view images, such as drone and satellite views, significantly increase the challenge of Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL), which aims to acquire the geolocation of images by image retrieval. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Shuang Wang , Yi Li , Pei He , Licheng Jiao

This paper addresses the problem of vehicle-mounted camera localization by matching a ground-level image with an overhead-view satellite map. Existing methods often treat this problem as cross-view image retrieval, and use learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li

Scene understanding and reasoning has been a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision, requiring models to identify objects, their properties, and spatial or comparative relationships among the objects. Existing approaches enable this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Vivek Madhavaram , Vartika Sengar , Arkadipta De , Charu Sharma

Metric Cross-View Geo-Localization (MCVGL) aims to estimate the 3-DoF camera pose (position and heading) by matching ground and satellite images. In this work, instead of pinhole and satellite images, we study robust MCVGL using holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junwei Zheng , Ruize Dai , Ruiping Liu , Zichao Zeng , Yufan Chen , Fangjinhua Wang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

We address the task of cross-domain visual place recognition, where the goal is to geolocalize a given query image against a labeled gallery, in the case where the query and the gallery belong to different visual domains. To achieve this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Gabriele Moreno Berton , Valerio Paolicelli , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Given a ground-level query image and a geo-referenced aerial image that covers the query's local surroundings, fine-grained cross-view localization aims to estimate the location of the ground camera inside the aerial image. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zimin Xia , Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li , Julian F. P. Kooij

Due to the growth of geo-tagged images, recent web and mobile applications provide search capabilities for images that are similar to a given query image and simultaneously within a given geographical area. In this paper, we focus on…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Abdullah Alfarrarjeh , Cyrus Shahabi

Cross-view geo-localisation (CVGL) aims to estimate the geographic location of a query image by matching it with images from a large-scale database. However, the significant view-point discrepancies present considerable challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hualin Ye , Bingxi Liu , Jixiang Du , Yu Qin , Ziyi Chen , Hong Zhang

Video diffusion models lack explicit geometric supervision during training, leading to inconsistency artifacts such as object deformation, spatial drift, and depth violations in generated videos. To address this limitation, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tengjiao Yin , Jinglei Shi , Heng Guo , Xi Wang

Using natural language to query visual information is a fundamental need in real-world applications. Text-Image Retrieval (TIR) retrieves a target image from a gallery based on an image-level description, while Referring Expression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiangzhao Hao , Kuan Zhu , Hongyu Guo , Haiyun Guo , Ning Jiang , Quan Lu , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Cross-View object geo-localization (CVOGL) aims to precisely determine the geographic coordinates of a query object from a ground or drone perspective by referencing a satellite map. Segmentation-based approaches offer high precision but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Chenlin Fu , Ao Gong , Yingying Zhu

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) estimates the location of a ground image by matching it to a geo-tagged aerial image in a database. Recent works achieve outstanding progress on CVGL benchmarks. However, existing methods still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Chen Chen , Safwan Wshah

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

In some scenarios, a single input image may not be enough to allow the object classification. In those cases, it is crucial to explore the complementary information extracted from images presenting the same object from multiple perspectives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Gabriel Machado , Keiller Nogueira , Matheus Barros Pereira , Jefersson Alex dos Santos

Aerial imagery and its direct application to visual localization is an essential problem for many Robotics and Computer Vision tasks. While Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are the standard default solution for solving the aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ivan Moskalenko , Anastasiia Kornilova , Gonzalo Ferrer

Visual re-localization means using a single image as input to estimate the camera's location and orientation relative to a pre-recorded environment. The highest-scoring methods are "structure based," and need the query camera's intrinsics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mehmet Ozgur Turkoglu , Eric Brachmann , Konrad Schindler , Gabriel Brostow , Aron Monszpart

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