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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been recently found popular for image captioning problems in remote sensing (RS). Existing DNN based approaches rely on the availability of a training set made up of a high number of RS images with their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Gencer Sumbul , Sonali Nayak , Begüm Demir

This paper introduces the task of visual question answering for remote sensing data (RSVQA). Remote sensing images contain a wealth of information which can be useful for a wide range of tasks including land cover classification, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sylvain Lobry , Diego Marcos , Jesse Murray , Devis Tuia

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

The application of Vision-language foundation models (VLFMs) to remote sensing (RS) imagery has garnered significant attention due to their superior capability in various downstream tasks. A key challenge lies in the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yiguo He , Junjie Zhu , Yiying Li , Xiaoyu Zhang , Chunping Qiu , Jun Wang , Qiangjuan Huang , Ke Yang

Recent progress in VLMs has demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks in the natural image domain. Motivated by these advancements, the remote sensing community has begun to adopt VLMs for remote sensing vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Congcong Wen , Yiting Lin , Xiaokang Qu , Nan Li , Yong Liao , Xiang Li , Hui Lin

Recent advances in prompt learning have allowed users to interact with artificial intelligence (AI) tools in multi-turn dialogue, enabling an interactive understanding of images. However, it is difficult and inefficient to deliver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Tong Zhang , Jun Li , Yin Zhuang , Xuerui Mao

Remote sensing is critical for disaster monitoring, yet existing datasets lack temporal image pairs and detailed textual annotations. While single-snapshot imagery dominates current resources, it fails to capture dynamic disaster impacts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Zhenyuan Chen , Chenxi Wang , Ningyu Zhang , Feng Zhang

The spatial attention is a straightforward approach to enhance the performance for remote sensing image captioning. However, conventional spatial attention approaches consider only the attention distribution on one fixed coarse grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Chengze Wang , Zhiyu Jiang , Yuan Yuan

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to articulate the changes in objects of interest within bi-temporal remote sensing images using natural language. Given the limitations of current RSICC methods in expressing general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongshuo Zhu , Lu Li , Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Fugen Zhou , Zhenwei Shi

Recent open-vocabulary detectors achieve promising performance with abundant region-level annotated data. In this work, we show that an open-vocabulary detector co-training with a large language model by generating image-level detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Shenghao Fu , Qize Yang , Qijie Mo , Junkai Yan , Xihan Wei , Jingke Meng , Xiaohua Xie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Semantic retrieval of remote sensing (RS) images is a critical task fundamentally challenged by the \textquote{semantic gap}, the discrepancy between a model's low-level visual features and high-level human concepts. While large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 J. Xiao , Y. Guo , X. Zi , K. Thiyagarajan , C. Moreira , M. Prasad

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

Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across various vision-language tasks in natural image domains. However, their application to remote sensing (RS) remains underexplored due to significant domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sungjune Park , Yeongyun Kim , Se Yeon Kim , Yong Man Ro

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

Vision-Language Models for remote sensing have shown promising uses thanks to their extensive pretraining. However, their conventional usage in zero-shot scene classification methods still involves dividing large images into patches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Karim El Khoury , Maxime Zanella , Benoît Gérin , Tiffanie Godelaine , Benoît Macq , Saïd Mahmoudi , Christophe De Vleeschouwer , Ismail Ben Ayed

We introduce a new benchmark designed to advance the development of general-purpose, large-scale vision-language models for remote sensing images. Although several vision-language datasets in remote sensing have been proposed to pursue this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Xiang Li , Jian Ding , Mohamed Elhoseiny

The interpretation of multi-temporal remote sensing imagery is critical for monitoring Earth's dynamic processes-yet previous change detection methods, which produce binary or semantic masks, fall short of providing human-readable insights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chenyang Liu , Jiafan Zhang , Keyan Chen , Man Wang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Image Captioning, or the automatic generation of descriptions for images, is one of the core problems in Computer Vision and has seen considerable progress using Deep Learning Techniques. We propose to use Inception-ResNet Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Sulabh Katiyar , Samir Kumar Borgohain

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

The domain gap between remote sensing imagery and natural images has recently received widespread attention and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated excellent generalization performance in remote sensing multimodal tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yujie Li , Wenjia Xu , Guangzuo Li , Zijian Yu , Zhiwei Wei , Jiuniu Wang , Mugen Peng