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Associating type to locations can be used to enrich maps and can serve a plethora of geospatial applications. An automatic method to do so could make the process less expensive in terms of human labor, and faster to react to changes. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Elad Kravi , Benny Kimelfeld , Yaron Kanza , Roi Reichart

In this paper, we address the problem of cross-view image geo-localization. Specifically, we aim to estimate the GPS location of a query street view image by finding the matching images in a reference database of geo-tagged bird's eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Yicong Tian , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah

Humans can build a mental map of a geographical area to find their way and recognize places. The basic task we consider is geo-localization - finding the pose (position & orientation) of a camera in a large 3D scene from a single image. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Moti Kadosh , Yael Moses , Ariel Shamir

One of the elements that have popularized and facilitated the use of geographical information on a variety of computational applications has been the use of Web maps; this has opened new research challenges on different subjects, from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2009-11-05 Rafael Ponce-Medellin , Gabriel Gonzalez-Serna , Rocio Vargas , Lirio Ruiz

Location-based social media make it possible to understand social and geographic aspects of human activities. However, previous studies have mostly examined these two aspects separately without looking at how they are linked. The study aims…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-09-04 Ding Ma , Mats Sandberg , Bin Jiang

With the rapid development of location-based social networks (LBSNs), spatial item recommendation has become an important means to help people discover attractive and interesting venues and events, especially when users travel out of town.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Weiqing Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Ling Chen , Yizhou Sun , Shazia Sadiq , Xiaofang Zhou

The explosion in the availability of natural language data in the era of social media has given rise to a host of applications such as sentiment analysis and opinion mining. Simultaneously, the growing availability of precise geolocation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Olga Kellert , Nicholas H. Matlis

In this work we propose a method that geolocates videos within a delimited widespread area based solely on the frames visual content. Our proposed method tackles video-geolocation through traditional image retrieval techniques considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Salvador Medina , Zhuyun Dai , Yingkai Gao

The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Arsalan Mousavian , Jana Kosecka

Real-time tweets can provide useful information on evolving events and situations. Geotagged tweets are especially useful, as they indicate the location of origin and provide geographic context. However, only a small portion of tweets are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Luke S. Snyder , Morteza Karimzadeh , Ray Chen , David S. Ebert

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

Graphs are widely used to model data in many application domains. Thanks to the wide spread use of GPS-enabled devices, many applications assign a spatial attribute to graph vertices (e.g., geo-tagged social media). Users may issue a…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Yuhan Sun , Mohamed Sarwat

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

The vast amount of geo-tagged social images has attracted great attention in research of predicting location using the plentiful content of images, such as visual content and textual description. Most of the existing researches use the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Xiaoming Zhang , Zhoujun Li , Senzhang Wang , Yang Yang , Xueqiang Lv

Determining the exact latitude and longitude that a photo was taken is a useful and widely applicable task, yet it remains exceptionally difficult despite the accelerated progress of other computer vision tasks. Most previous approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Brandon Clark , Alec Kerrigan , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Mubarak Shah

The facility location problem is a well-known challenge in logistics that is proven to be NP-hard. In this paper we specifically simulate the geographical placement of facilities to provide adequate service to customers. Determining…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Peter Hillmann , Tobias Uhlig , Gabi Dreo Rodosek , Oliver Rose

We consider the problem of localizing visitors in a cultural site from egocentric (first person) images. Localization information can be useful both to assist the user during his visit (e.g., by suggesting where to go and what to see next)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Francesco Ragusa , Antonino Furnari , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Signorello , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Geospatial Location Embedding (GLE) helps a Large Language Model (LLM) assimilate and analyze spatial data. GLE emergence in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) is precipitated by the need for deeper geospatial awareness in our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Sean Tucker

This paper examines the former location-based social medium Brightkite, over its three-year life span, based on the concept of natural cities. The term 'natural cities' refers to spatially clustered geographic events, such as the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-20 Bin Jiang , Yufan Miao

The "15-minute city" envisions neighborhoods where residents can meet daily needs via a short walk or bike ride. Realizing this vision requires not only physical proximity but also efficient and reliable access to information about nearby…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Luyao Niu , Zhicheng Deng , Boyang Li , Nuoxian Huang , Ruiqi Liu , Wenjia Zhang