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Video geolocalization is a crucial problem in current times. Given just a video, ascertaining where it was captured from can have a plethora of advantages. The problem of worldwide geolocalization has been tackled before, but only using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Parth Parag Kulkarni , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we address the problem of global-scale image geolocation, proposing a mixed classification-retrieval scheme. Unlike other methods that strictly tackle the problem as a classification or retrieval task, we combine the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Panagiotis Galopoulos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

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

Worldwide geo-localization involves determining the exact geographic location of images captured globally, typically guided by geographic cues such as climate, landmarks, and architectural styles. Despite advancements in geo-localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Furong Jia , Lanxin Liu , Ce Hou , Fan Zhang , Xinyan Liu , Yu Liu

When humans play geolocation games such as GeoGuessr, they rely on concrete visual cues, such as road markings, vegetation, or architectural details, to infer where an image was captured. Whether image geolocation models rely on similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Emilie Durrieu , Christophe Hurter , Philippe Muller , Victor Boutin

Worldwide image geolocalization aims to predict precise GPS coordinates for images captured anywhere on Earth, which is challenging due to the large visual and geographic diversity. Recent methods mainly follow two paradigms:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Pengyue Jia , Derong Xu , Yingyi Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Wenlin Zhang , Yi Wen , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao

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

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

Accurate camera pose estimation is a fundamental requirement for numerous applications, such as autonomous driving, mobile robotics, and augmented reality. In this work, we address the problem of estimating the global 6 DoF camera pose from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Altillawi

Image geo-localization is the task of predicting the specific location of an image and requires complex reasoning across visual, geographical, and cultural contexts. While prior Vision Language Models (VLMs) have the best accuracy at this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheyuan Zhang , Runze Li , Tasnim Kabir , Jordan Boyd-Graber

The overarching goals in image-based localization are scale, robustness and speed. In recent years, approaches based on local features and sparse 3D point-cloud models have both dominated the benchmarks and seen successful realworld…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Simon Lynen , Bernhard Zeisl , Dror Aiger , Michael Bosse , Joel Hesch , Marc Pollefeys , Roland Siegwart , Torsten Sattler

In the context of social media, geolocation inference on news or events has become a very important task. In this paper, we present the GeoWINE (Geolocation-based Wiki-Image-News-Event retrieval) demonstrator, an effective modular system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Golsa Tahmasebzadeh , Endri Kacupaj , Eric Müller-Budack , Sherzod Hakimov , Jens Lehmann , Ralph Ewerth

Worldwide geolocalization aims to locate the precise location at the coordinate level of photos taken anywhere on the Earth. It is very challenging due to 1) the difficulty of capturing subtle location-aware visual semantics, and 2) the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Pengyue Jia , Yiding Liu , Xiaopeng Li , Yuhao Wang , Yantong Du , Xiao Han , Xuetao Wei , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xiangyu Zhao

6D object pose estimation, which predicts the transformation of an object relative to the camera, remains challenging for unseen objects. Existing approaches typically rely on explicitly constructing feature correspondences between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Jianqi Chen , Biao Zhang , Xiangjun Tang , Peter Wonka

Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, which dividing the Earth surface into grid cells and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhongliang Zhou , Jielu Zhang , Zihan Guan , Mengxuan Hu , Ni Lao , Lan Mu , Sheng Li , Gengchen Mai

Visual localization has traditionally been formulated as a pair-wise pose regression problem. Existing approaches mainly estimate relative poses between two images and employ a late-fusion strategy to obtain absolute pose estimates.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Tianchen Deng , Wenhua Wu , Kunzhen Wu , Guangming Wang , Siting Zhu , Shenghai Yuan , Xun Chen , Guole Shen , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

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

This paper presents a new approach for the challenging problem of geo-locating an image using image matching in a structured database of city-wide reference images with known GPS coordinates. We cast the geo-localization as a clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Eyasu Zemene , Yonatan Tariku , Haroon Idrees , Andrea Prati , Marcello Pelillo , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we present and study a new image segmentation task, called Generalized Open-set Semantic Segmentation (GOSS). Previously, with the well-known open-set semantic segmentation (OSS), the intelligent agent only detects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jie Hong , Weihao Li , Junlin Han , Jiyang Zheng , Pengfei Fang , Mehrtash Harandi , Lars Petersson

Cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the locations of street-view query images by matching with GPS-tagged reference images from aerial view. Recent works have achieved surprisingly high retrieval accuracy on city-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen