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Images shared on social media often expose geographic cues. While early geolocation methods required expert effort and lacked generalization, the rise of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) now enables accurate geolocation even for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinyu Zhang , Yixin Wu , Boyang Zhang , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

The image geolocalization task aims to predict the location where an image was taken anywhere on Earth using visual clues. Existing large vision-language model (LVLM) approaches leverage world knowledge, chain-of-thought reasoning, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yuxiang Ji , Yong Wang , Ziyu Ma , Yiming Hu , Hailang Huang , Xuecai Hu , Guanhua Chen , Liaoni Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

Image geolocalization is the challenging task of predicting the geographic coordinates of origin for a given photo. It is an unsolved problem relying on the ability to combine visual clues with general knowledge about the world to make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Lukas Haas , Silas Alberti , Michal Skreta

Analyzing the geographic movement of humans, animals, and other phenomena is a growing field of research. This research has benefited urban planning, logistics, animal migration understanding, and much more. Typically, the movement is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Scott Pezanowski , Prasenjit Mitra

Geospatial reasoning requires solving image-grounded problems over the complex spatial structure of a scene. However, developing this capability is hindered by the cost of annotating a vast and combinatorial question space. We propose GeoX,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kyeongjin Ahn , Seungeon Lee , Krishna P. Gummadi , Meeyoung Cha

Aerial image analysis at a semantic level is important in many applications with strong potential impact in industry and consumer use, such as automated mapping, urban planning, real estate and environment monitoring, or disaster relief.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Dragos Costea , Marius Leordeanu

Natural language place descriptions in everyday communication provide a rich source of spatial knowledge about places. An important step to utilize such knowledge in information systems is geo-referencing all the places referred to in these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Hao Chen , Maria Vasardani , Stephan Winter

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a part of our daily life with the primary goal of providing geopositioning service. For an unmanned aerial system (UAS), geolocalization ability is an extremely important necessity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jianli Wei , Deniz Karakay , Alper Yilmaz

Twitter is often used in quantitative studies that identify geographically-preferred topics, writing styles, and entities. These studies rely on either GPS coordinates attached to individual messages, or on the user-supplied location field…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-25 Umashanthi Pavalanathan , Jacob Eisenstein

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

Global visual geolocation predicts where an image was captured on Earth. Since images vary in how precisely they can be localized, this task inherently involves a significant degree of ambiguity. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nicolas Dufour , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton , Loic Landrieu

Location-aware applications play an increasingly critical role in everyday life. However, satellite-based localization (e.g., GPS) has limited accuracy and can be unusable in dense urban areas and indoors. We introduce an image-based global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Linguang Zhang , Adam Finkelstein , Szymon Rusinkiewicz

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

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

With a fast developing pace of geographic applications, automatable and intelligent models are essential to be designed to handle the large volume of information. However, few researchers focus on geographic natural language processing, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Dongyang Li , Ruixue Ding , Qiang Zhang , Zheng Li , Boli Chen , Pengjun Xie , Yao Xu , Xin Li , Ning Guo , Fei Huang , Xiaofeng He

Mapping and localization are crucial problems in robotics and autonomous driving. Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled precise 3D mapping and scene understanding by rendering photo-realistic images. However, existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jaewon Lee , Mangyu Kong , Minseong Park , Euntai Kim

This paper presents GeoAgent, a model capable of reasoning closely with humans and deriving fine-grained address conclusions. Previous RL-based methods have achieved breakthroughs in performance and interpretability but still remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Modi Jin , Yiming Zhang , Boyuan Sun , Dingwen Zhang , MingMing Cheng , Qibin Hou

We address the visual relocalization problem of predicting the location and camera orientation or pose (6DOF) of the given input scene. We propose a method based on how humans determine their location using the visible landmarks. We define…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Soham Saha , Girish Varma , C. V. Jawahar

Predicting where people can walk in a scene is important for many tasks, including autonomous driving systems and human behavior analysis. Yet learning a computational model for this purpose is challenging due to semantic ambiguity and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Jin Sun , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Qianqian Wang , Noah Snavely

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