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In this work, we address the problem of cross-view geo-localization, which estimates the geospatial location of a street view image by matching it with a database of geo-tagged aerial images. The cross-view matching task is extremely…

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This technical report outlines the top-ranking solution for RoboSense 2025: Track 3, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 3D object detection under various sensor placements. Our submission utilizes GBlobs, a local point cloud feature…

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We are presenting a method to recognise geographical references in free text. Our tool must work on various languages with a minimum of language-dependent resources, except a gazetteer. The main difficulty is to disambiguate these place…

Textual grounding, i.e., linking words to objects in images, is a challenging but important task for robotics and human-computer interaction. Existing techniques benefit from recent progress in deep learning and generally formulate the task…

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Grounding (i.e. localizing) arbitrary, free-form textual phrases in visual content is a challenging problem with many applications for human-computer interaction and image-text reference resolution. Few datasets provide the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Anna Rohrbach , Marcus Rohrbach , Ronghang Hu , Trevor Darrell , Bernt Schiele

The problem of localization on a geo-referenced satellite map given a query ground view image is useful yet remains challenging due to the drastic change in viewpoint. To this end, in this paper we work on the extension of our earlier work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Sixing Hu , Gim Hee Lee

Timestamp prediction aims to determine when an image was captured using only visual information, supporting applications such as metadata correction, retrieval, and digital forensics. In outdoor scenarios, hourly estimates rely on cues like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 David G. Shatwell , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Sirnam Swetha , Mubarak Shah

Recent advances in multimodal large language models(MLLMs) have led to remarkable progress in visual grounding, enabling fine-grained cross-modal alignment between textual queries and image regions. However, transferring such capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Luxiao Xu , Jinliang Lin , Zonghao Guo , Fengxiang Wang , Xue Yang , Kaiwen Wei , Lei Wang

Contextual information can have a substantial impact on the performance of visual tasks such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and geometric estimation. Data stored in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offers a rich source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Raúl Díaz , Minhaeng Lee , Jochen Schubert , Charless C. Fowlkes

Deep research agents integrate fragmented evidence through multi-step tool use. BrowseComp offers a text-only testbed for such agents, but existing multimodal benchmarks rarely require both weak visual cues composition and BrowseComp-style…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xinyu Geng , Yanjing Xiao , Yuyang Zhang , Hanwen Wang , Xinyan Liu , Rui Min , Tianqing Fang , Yi R. Fung

Accurate localization in diverse environments is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics. The task involves determining a sensor's precise position and orientation, typically a camera, within a given space. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Luca Di Giammarino , Boyang Sun , Giorgio Grisetti , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum , Daniel Barath

Inspired by Christopher Alexanders conception of the world - space is not lifeless or neutral but a living structure involving far more small things than large ones a topological representation has been previously developed to characterize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-04 Bin Jiang , Zheng Ren

We propose a robotic learning system for autonomous exploration and navigation in unexplored environments. We are motivated by the idea that even an unseen environment may be familiar from previous experiences in similar environments. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Huangying Zhan , Hamid Rezatofighi , Ian Reid

Precise estimation of global orientation and location is critical to ensure a compelling outdoor Augmented Reality (AR) experience. We address the problem of geo-pose estimation by cross-view matching of query ground images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Kshitij Minhas , Han-Pang Chiu , Taragay Oskiper , Mikhail Sizintsev , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Visual geolocalization is a cost-effective and scalable task that involves matching one or more query images, taken at some unknown location, to a set of geo-tagged reference images. Existing methods, devoted to semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Boni Hu , Lin Chen , Runjian Chen , Shuhui Bu , Pengcheng Han , Haowei Li

While Self-supervised Learning (SSL) has significantly improved Spoken Language Identification (LID), existing models often struggle to consistently classify dialects and accents of the same language as a unified class. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qingzheng Wang , Hye-jin Shim , Jiancheng Sun , Shinji Watanabe

Geospatial predictions are crucial for diverse fields such as disaster management, urban planning, and public health. Traditional machine learning methods often face limitations when handling unstructured or multi-modal data like street…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Zongrong Li , Junhao Xu , Siqin Wang , Yifan Wu , Haiyang Li

A study was conducted to prove AI software could be used to translate and generate illustrations without any human intervention. This was done with the purpose of showing and distributing it to the external customer, Pratham Books. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jakub J. Dylag , Victor Suarez , James Wald , Aneesha Amodini Uvara

We present AutoTour, a system that enhances user exploration by automatically generating fine-grained landmark annotations and descriptive narratives for photos captured by users. The key idea of AutoTour is to fuse visual features…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Huatao Xu , Zihe Liu , Zilin Zeng , Baichuan Li , Mo Li

Ground texture based localization methods are potential prospects for low-cost, high-accuracy self-localization solutions for robots. These methods estimate the pose of a given query image, i.e. the current observation of the ground from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Raaghav Radhakrishnan , Jan Fabian Schmid , Randolf Scholz , Lars Schmidt-Thieme