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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in vision-language tasks but their remote sensing (RS) counterpart are relatively under explored. Unlike natural images, RS imagery presents unique challenges that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Abduljaleel Adejumo , Faegheh Yeganli , Clifford Broni-bediako , Aoran Xiao , Naoto Yokoya , Mennatullah Siam

Existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are predominantly trained on web-scraped, noisy image-text data, exhibiting limited exposure to the specialized domain of RS. This deficiency results in poor performance on RS-specific tasks, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Angelos Zavras , Dimitrios Michail , Xiao Xiang Zhu , Begüm Demir , Ioannis Papoutsis

Efficient vision-language understanding of large Remote Sensing Images (RSIs) is meaningful but challenging. Current Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically employ limited pre-defined grids to process images, leading to information…

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Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in the field of remote sensing in recent years. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery, with its all-weather capability, is essential in remote sensing, yet the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yiguo He , Xinjun Cheng , Junjie Zhu , Chunping Qiu , Jun Wang , Xichuan Zhang , Qiangjuan Huang , Ke Yang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have been regarded as a breakthrough advance in an astoundingly variety of tasks, from content generation to virtual assistants and multimodal search or retrieval. However, for many of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kailash Hambarde , Pranita Samale , Hugo Proença

The revolutionary capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have paved the way for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and fostered diverse applications across various specialized domains. In the remote sensing (RS) field, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Dilxat Muhtar , Zhenshi Li , Feng Gu , Xueliang Zhang , Pengfeng Xiao

Recently, the flourishing large language models(LLM), especially ChatGPT, have shown exceptional performance in language understanding, reasoning, and interaction, attracting users and researchers from multiple fields and domains. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Haonan Guo , Xin Su , Chen Wu , Bo Du , Liangpei Zhang , Deren Li

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various tasks such as image captioning and visual question answer(VQA); however, they often struggle to accurately interpret depth information inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hao Yang , Hongbo Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

The mainstream paradigm of remote sensing image interpretation has long been dominated by vision-centered models, which rely on visual features for semantic understanding. However, these models face inherent limitations in handling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haifeng Li , Wang Guo , Haiyang Wu , Mengwei Wu , Jipeng Zhang , Qing Zhu , Yu Liu , Xin Huang , Chao Tao

Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering (RSVQA) is a challenging task that involves interpreting complex satellite imagery to answer natural language questions. Traditional approaches often rely on separate visual feature extractors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Surasakdi Siripong , Apirak Chaiyapan , Thanakorn Phonchai

Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lucrezia Tosato , Gianluca Lombardi , Ronny Hansch

Remote sensing imagery, despite its broad applications in helping achieve Sustainable Development Goals and tackle climate change, has not yet benefited from the recent advancements of versatile, task-agnostic vision language models (VLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhecheng Wang , Rajanie Prabha , Tianyuan Huang , Jiajun Wu , Ram Rajagopal

Vision language models have achieved impressive results across various fields. However, adoption in remote sensing remains limited, largely due to the scarcity of paired image-text data. To bridge this gap, synthetic caption generation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Madeline Anderson , Miriam Cha , William T. Freeman , J. Taylor Perron , Nathaniel Maidel , Kerri Cahoy

Creating compelling captions for data visualizations has been a longstanding challenge. Visualization researchers are typically untrained in journalistic reporting and hence the captions that are placed below data visualizations tend to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Ashley Liew , Klaus Mueller

We introduce a method to train vision-language models for remote-sensing images without using any textual annotations. Our key insight is to use co-located internet imagery taken on the ground as an intermediary for connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Utkarsh Mall , Cheng Perng Phoo , Meilin Kelsey Liu , Carl Vondrick , Bharath Hariharan , Kavita Bala

The emergence of vision language models (VLMs) bridges the gap between vision and language, enabling multimodal understanding beyond traditional visual-only deep learning models. However, transferring VLMs from the natural image domain to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Boyi Li , Ce Zhang , Richard M. Timmerman , Wenxuan Bao

The complexity of scenes and variations in image quality result in significant variability in the performance of semantic segmentation methods of remote sensing imagery (RSI) in supervised real-world scenarios. This makes the evaluation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Huiying Shi , Zhihong Tan , Zhihan Zhang , Hongchen Wei , Yaosi Hu , Yingxue Zhang , Zhenzhong Chen

Large language-vision models (LLVM), such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and GPT-4, have gained prominence as powerful tools for analyzing text and imagery. The merging of these data domains represents a significant paradigm shift with far-reaching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 David F. Ramirez , Tim L. Overman , Kristen Jaskie , Marv Kleine , Andreas Spanias

We introduce HyperCap, the first large-scale hyperspectral captioning dataset designed to enhance model performance and effectiveness in remote sensing applications. Unlike traditional hyperspectral imaging (HSI) benchmarks, HyperCap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Aryan Das , Tanishq Rachamalla , Pravendra Singh , Koushik Biswas , Vinay Kumar Verma , Salvador Garcia , Antonio Plaza , Swalpa Kumar Roy

As a powerful all-weather Earth observation tool, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) remote sensing enables critical military reconnaissance, maritime surveillance, and infrastructure monitoring. Although Vision language models (VLMs) have made…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zhiming Ma , Xiayang Xiao , Sihao Dong , Peidong Wang , HaiPeng Wang , Qingyun Pan