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Generalizable cross-view geo-localization aims to match the same location across views in unseen regions and conditions without GPS supervision. Its core difficulty lies in severe semantic inconsistency caused by viewpoint variation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Haitao Zhang , Zhongyi Wen , Zhenyu Kuang , Shuxian Liang , Xiansheng Hua

Cross-view geo-localization infers a location by retrieving geo-tagged reference images that visually correspond to a query image. However, the traditional satellite-centric paradigm limits robustness when high-resolution or up-to-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zixuan Song , Jing Zhang , Di Wang , Zidie Zhou , Wenbin Liu , Haonan Guo , En Wang , Bo Du

Visual Place Recognition is a task that aims to predict the place of an image (called query) based solely on its visual features. This is typically done through image retrieval, where the query is matched to the most similar images from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Trivigno , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

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

Cross-view geo-localization is a task of matching the same geographic image from different views, e.g., unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite. The most difficult challenges are the position shift and the uncertainty of distance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ming Dai , Jianhong Hu , Jiedong Zhuang , Enhui Zheng

LiDAR place recognition approaches based on deep learning suffer from significant performance degradation when there is a shift between the distribution of training and test datasets, often requiring re-training the networks to achieve peak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Joshua Knights , Stephen Hausler , Sridha Sridharan , Clinton Fookes , Peyman Moghadam

This paper addresses the problem of cross-view image geo-localization, where the geographic location of a ground-level street-view query image is estimated by matching it against a large scale aerial map (e.g., a high-resolution satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Tong Zhang , Hongdong Li

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

Temporal convolutions have been the paradigm of choice in action segmentation, which enhances long-term receptive fields by increasing convolution layers. However, high layers cause the loss of local information necessary for frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jiahui Wang , Zhenyou Wang , Shanna Zhuang , Hui Wang

Contrastive learning methods have significantly narrowed the gap between supervised and unsupervised learning on computer vision tasks. In this paper, we explore their application to geo-located datasets, e.g. remote sensing, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Kumar Ayush , Burak Uzkent , Chenlin Meng , Kumar Tanmay , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Cross-view object geo-localization enables high-precision object localization through cross-view matching, with critical applications in autonomous driving, urban management, and disaster response. However, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shuhan Hu , Yiru Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yingying Zhu

Visual transformers have driven major progress in remote sensing image analysis, particularly in object detection and segmentation. Recent vision-language and multimodal models further extend these capabilities by incorporating auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Li , Guilherme N. DeSouza , Praveen Rao , Chi-Ren Shyu

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah

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

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

Estimating the depths of equirectangular (i.e., 360) images (EIs) is challenging given the distorted 180 x 360 field-of-view, which is hard to be addressed via convolutional neural network (CNN). Although a transformer with global attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Ilwi Yun , Chanyong Shin , Hyunku Lee , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Cross-view geo-localization determines the location of a query image, captured by a drone or ground-based camera, by matching it to a geo-referenced satellite image. While traditional approaches focus on image-level localization, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zheyang Huang , Jagannath Aryal , Saeid Nahavandi , Xuequan Lu , Chee Peng Lim , Lei Wei , Hailing Zhou

Cross-view geo-localization is to spot images of the same geographic target from different platforms, e.g., drone-view cameras and satellites. It is challenging in the large visual appearance changes caused by extreme viewpoint variations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Tingyu Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Chenggang Yan , Jiyong Zhang , Yaoqi Sun , Bolun Zheng , Yi Yang

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

We present a new method to localize a camera within a previously unseen environment perceived from an egocentric point of view. Although this is, in general, an ill-posed problem, humans can effortlessly and efficiently determine their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Jayant Sharma , Zixing Wang , Alberto Speranzon , Vijay Venkataraman , Hyun Soo Park