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Multimodal reasoning is a process of understanding, integrating and inferring information across different data modalities. It has recently attracted surging academic attention as a benchmark for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Although there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Fenghua Cheng , Jinxiang Wang , Sen Wang , Zi Huang , Xue Li

Previous methods for image geo-localization have typically treated the task as either classification or retrieval, often relying on black-box decisions that lack interpretability. The rise of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ling Li , Yao Zhou , Yuxuan Liang , Fugee Tsung , Jiaheng Wei

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

We present a novel approach to geolocalising panoramic images on a 2-D cartographic map based on learning a low dimensional embedded space, which allows a comparison between an image captured at a location and local neighbourhoods of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Noe Samano , Mengjie Zhou , Andrew Calway

Geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location where an image was captured using observable visual evidence. Traditional methods achieve impressive results through large-scale training on massive image corpora. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinnao Li , Zijian Chen , Tingzhu Chen , Changbo Wang

Worldwide image geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location of an image captured anywhere on Earth, spanning street, city, regional, national, and continental scales. Existing methods rely on visual features that are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Junchao Cui , Wenqi Shi , Shaoyong Du , Hang He , Xuanzi Ma , Hao Tang , Xiangyang Luo

This paper presents a novel system designed for 3D mapping and visual relocalization using 3D Gaussian Splatting. Our proposed method uses LiDAR and camera data to create accurate and visually plausible representations of the environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peng Jiang , Gaurav Pandey , Srikanth Saripalli

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 geolocation of online information is an essential component in any geospatial application. While most of the previous work on geolocation has focused on Twitter, in this paper we quantify and compare the performance of text-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Konstantinos Pappas , Mahmoud Azab , Rada Mihalcea

We study the problem of jointly reasoning about language and vision through a navigation and spatial reasoning task. We introduce the Touchdown task and dataset, where an agent must first follow navigation instructions in a real-life visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Howard Chen , Alane Suhr , Dipendra Misra , Noah Snavely , Yoav Artzi

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

Twitter is a useful resource to analyze peoples' opinions on various topics. Often these topics are correlated or associated with locations from where these Tweet posts are made. For example, restaurant owners may need to know where their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Florina Dutt , Subhajit Das

This paper proposes a novel method for geo-tracking, i.e. continuous metric self-localization in outdoor environments by registering a vehicle's sensor information with aerial imagery of an unseen target region. Geo-tracking methods offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

We propose a method for accurately localizing ground vehicles with the aid of satellite imagery. Our approach takes a ground image as input, and outputs the location from which it was taken on a georeferenced satellite image. We perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-11-02 Hang Chu , Hongyuan Mei , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

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

Estimating the location where an image was taken based solely on the contents of the image is a challenging task, even for humans, as properly labeling an image in such a fashion relies heavily on contextual information, and is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jesse M. Johns , Jeremiah Rounds , Michael J. Henry

In this demonstration, we present Country Guesser, a live system that guesses the country that a photo is taken in. In particular, given a Google Street View image, our federated ranking model uses a combination of computer vision, machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Tim Menzner , Jochen L. Leidner , Florian Mittag

Cross-view localization, the task of estimating a camera's 3-degrees-of-freedom (3-DoF) pose by aligning ground-level images with satellite images, is crucial for large-scale outdoor applications like autonomous navigation and augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shaowen Tong , Zimin Xia , Alexandre Alahi , Xuming He , Yujiao Shi

Consumer electronic devices such as mobile handsets, goods tagged with RFID labels, location and position sensors are continuously generating a vast amount of location enriched data called geospatial data. Conventionally such geospatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Arvind W. Kiwelekar , Geetanjali S. Mahamunkar , Laxman D. Netak , Valmik B Nikam

Maps are a key component in image-based camera localization and visual SLAM systems: they are used to establish geometric constraints between images, correct drift in relative pose estimation, and relocalize cameras after lost tracking. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , James Hays , Jan Kautz