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We propose an end-to-end solution to address the problem of object localisation in partial scenes, where we aim to estimate the position of an object in an unknown area given only a partial 3D scan of the scene. We propose a novel scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Francesco Giuliari , Geri Skenderi , Marco Cristani , Alessio Del Bue , Yiming Wang

This work presents a method that is able to predict the geolocation of a street-view photo taken in the wild within a state-sized search region by matching against a database of aerial reference imagery. We partition the search region into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Interactive digital maps have revolutionized how people travel and learn about the world; however, they rely on pre-existing structured data in GIS databases (e.g., road networks, POI indices), limiting their ability to address geo-visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Jon E. Froehlich , Jared Hwang , Zeyu Wang , John S. O'Meara , Xia Su , William Huang , Yang Zhang , Alex Fiannaca , Philip Nelson , Shaun Kane

Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels? In general, the problem seems exceptionally difficult: it is trivial to construct situations where no location can be inferred. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Tobias Weyand , Ilya Kostrikov , James Philbin

Many datasets nowadays contain links between geographic locations and natural language texts. These links can be geotags, such as geotagged tweets or geotagged Wikipedia pages, in which location coordinates are explicitly attached to texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yingjie Hu

Spatial representation learning is essential for GeoAI applications such as urban analytics, enabling the encoding of shapes, locations, and spatial relationships (topological and distance-based) of geo-entities like points, polylines, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Chen Chu , Cyrus Shahabi

IP Geolocation is a key enabler for the Future Internet to provide geographical location information for application services. For example, this data is used by Content Delivery Networks to assign users to mirror servers, which are close…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Peter Hillmann , Lars Stiemert , Gabi Dreo , Oliver Rose

Spatial objects often come with textual information, such as Points of Interest (POIs) with their descriptions, which are referred to as geo-textual data. To retrieve such data, spatial keyword queries that take into account both spatial…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yufan Sheng , Xin Cao , Yixiang Fang , Kaiqi Zhao , Jianzhong Qi , Gao Cong , Wenjie Zhang

In this paper we address the task of determining the geographical location of an image, a pertinent problem in learning and computer vision. This research was inspired from playing GeoGuessr, a game that tests a humans' ability to localize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Sudharshan Suresh , Nathaniel Chodosh , Montiel Abello

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and cloud computing technology, large-scale multimedia data, e.g., texts, images, audio and videos have been generated, collected, stored and shared. In this paper, we propose a novel query…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Chengyuan Zhang , Kesheng Cheng , Lei Zhu , Ruipeng Chen , Zuping Zhang , Fang Huang

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

In this paper, we present a method for localizing a query image with respect to a precomputed 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scene representation. First, the method uses 3DGS to render a synthetic RGBD image at some initial pose estimate.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Jongwon Lee , Timothy Bretl

Motivated by the need to extract meaning from large amounts of complex structured data, we consider three critical problems on graphs: localization, decomposition, and dictionary learning of piecewise-constant signals. These graph-based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Siheng Chen , Yaoqing Yang , José. M. F. Moura , Jelena Kovačević

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

Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many of these location descriptions go beyond simple place…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Yingjie Hu , Gengchen Mai , Chris Cundy , Kristy Choi , Ni Lao , Wei Liu , Gaurish Lakhanpal , Ryan Zhenqi Zhou , Kenneth Joseph

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

Image geo-localization aims to determine where a photograph was taken, a task that often requires more than recognizing visible landmarks. Human experts typically solve it through an iterative workflow: they inspect informative regions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yong Li , Furong Jia , Dacheng Yin , Kang Rong , Fengyun Rao , Jing Lyu , Fan Zhang

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

Geometric Problem Solving (GPS) poses a unique challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), requiring not only the joint interpretation of text and diagrams but also iterative visuospatial reasoning. While existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shichao Weng , Zhiqiang Wang , Yuhua Zhou , Rui Lu , Ting Liu , Zhiyang Teng , Xiaozhang Liu , Hanmeng Liu

Geographic location search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search technology, also called location search, has recently…

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