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We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Scott Workman , Richard Souvenir , Nathan Jacobs

Cross-view geo-localization is the problem of estimating the position and orientation (latitude, longitude and azimuth angle) of a camera at ground level given a large-scale database of geo-tagged aerial (e.g., satellite) images. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Dylan Campbell , Hongdong Li

Visual attributes, from simple objects (e.g., backpacks, hats) to soft-biometrics (e.g., gender, height, clothing) have proven to be a powerful representational approach for many applications such as image description and human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Nikolaos Sarafianos , Theodore Giannakopoulos , Christophoros Nikou , Ioannis A. Kakadiaris

Cross-view geo-localisation (CVGL) aims to estimate the geographic location of a query image by matching it with images from a large-scale database. However, the significant view-point discrepancies present considerable challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hualin Ye , Bingxi Liu , Jixiang Du , Yu Qin , Ziyi Chen , Hong Zhang

Cross-view UAV geolocalization is fundamentally a challenging large-scale image retrieval task, aiming to determine the geographic coordinates of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) queries by matching them against an extensive geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bowen Liu , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Derong Xu , Jiawei Cheng , Jiancheng Dong , Xiao Han , Zimo Zhao , Chao Zhang , Bowen Yu , Fangyu Hong , Xiangyu Zhao

Visual relocalization is a fundamental task in the field of 3D computer vision, estimating a camera's pose when it revisits a previously known scene. While point-based hierarchical relocalization methods have shown strong scalability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Huaqi Tao , Bingxi Liu , Guangcheng Chen , Fulin Tang , Li He , Hong Zhang

Most existing works solving Room-to-Room VLN problem only utilize RGB images and do not consider local context around candidate views, which lack sufficient visual cues about surrounding environment. Moreover, natural language contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingyang Huo , Qiang Sun , Boyan Jiang , Haitao Lin , Yanwei Fu

Visual place recognition is essential for vision-based robot localization and SLAM. Despite the tremendous progress made in recent years, place recognition in changing environments remains challenging. A promising approach to cope with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Reihaneh Mirjalili , Michael Krawez , Wolfram Burgard

Visual Grounding (VG) is a crucial topic in the field of vision and language, which involves locating a specific region described by expressions within an image. To reduce the reliance on manually labeled data, unsupervised visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Linhui Xiao , Xiaoshan Yang , Fang Peng , Ming Yan , Yaowei Wang , Changsheng Xu

Visual localization is crucial for Computer Vision and Augmented Reality (AR) applications, where determining the camera or device's position and orientation is essential to accurately interact with the physical environment. Traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Albert Gassol Puigjaner , Irvin Aloise , Patrik Schmuck

Existing visual localization methods are typically either 2D image-based, which are easy to build and maintain but limited in effective geometric reasoning, or 3D structure-based, which achieve high accuracy but require a centralized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xudong Jiang , Fangjinhua Wang , Silvano Galliani , Christoph Vogel , Marc Pollefeys

Due to the ability to synthesize high-quality novel views, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have been recently exploited to improve visual localization in a known environment. However, the existing methods mostly utilize NeRFs for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Boming Zhao , Luwei Yang , Mao Mao , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, to train CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Hassan Foroosh , Boqing Gong

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

This paper tackles the problem of Cross-view Video-based camera Localization (CVL). The task is to localize a query camera by leveraging information from its past observations, i.e., a continuous sequence of images observed at previous time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Shan Wang , Hongdong Li

Visual localization plays an important role in the applications of Augmented Reality (AR), which enable AR devices to obtain their 6-DoF pose in the pre-build map in order to render virtual content in real scenes. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Hongjia Zhai , Xiyu Zhang , Boming Zhao , Hai Li , Yijia He , Zhaopeng Cui , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) is fundamental for precise localization and navigation in GPS-denied environments, aiming to match ground or UAV imagery with satellite views. Existing approaches often rely on global feature alignment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hongyang Zhang , Maonnan Wang , Ziyao Wang , Hongrui Yin , Man On Pun

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving. However, to train CNNs requires a considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Boqing Gong

Visual geolocalization, the task of predicting where an image was taken, remains challenging due to global scale, visual ambiguity, and the inherently hierarchical structure of geography. Existing paradigms rely on either large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hari Krishna Gadi , Daniel Matos , Hongyi Luo , Lu Liu , Yongliang Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , Liqiu Meng

This work tackles the problem of geo-localization with a new paradigm using a large vision-language model (LVLM) augmented with human inference knowledge. A primary challenge here is the scarcity of data for training the LVLM - existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ling Li , Yu Ye , Yao Zhou , Bingchuan Jiang , Wei Zeng