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Remote sensing image captioning has advanced rapidly through encoder--decoder models, although the reliance on large annotated datasets and the focus on English restricts global applicability. To address these limitations, we propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Carlos Rebelo , Gil Rocha , João Daniel Silva , Bruno Martins

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

Recently, there has been increasing interest in multimodal applications that integrate text with other modalities, such as images, audio and video, to facilitate natural language interactions with multimodal AI systems. While applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Roger Ferrod , Luigi Di Caro , Dino Ienco

Effectively grounding complex language to pixels in remote sensing (RS) images is a critical challenge for applications like disaster response and environmental monitoring. Current models can parse simple, single-target commands but fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Zepeng Xin , Kaiyu Li , Luodi Chen , Wanchen Li , Yuchen Xiao , Hui Qiao , Weizhan Zhang , Deyu Meng , Xiangyong Cao

Image captioning and cross-modal retrieval are examples of tasks that involve the joint analysis of visual and linguistic information. In connection to remote sensing imagery, these tasks can help non-expert users in extracting relevant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 João Daniel Silva , João Magalhães , Devis Tuia , Bruno Martins

This work introduces composed image retrieval to remote sensing. It allows to query a large image archive by image examples alternated by a textual description, enriching the descriptive power over unimodal queries, either visual or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Bill Psomas , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Nikos Efthymiadis , Giorgos Tolias , Ondrej Chum , Yannis Avrithis , Konstantinos Karantzalos

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to achieve high-level semantic understanding of genuine changes occurring between bi-temporal images. Despite notable progress, existing methods are fundamentally limited by a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Man Wang , Chenyang Liu , Wenjun Li , Feng Ni , Bing Jia , Baoqi Huang , Riting Xia , Zhenwei Shi

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

Image-based retrieval in large Earth observation archives is challenging because one needs to navigate across thousands of candidate matches only with the query image as a guide. By using text as information supporting the visual query, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Li Mi , Xianjie Dai , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Devis Tuia

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

In recent years, advancements in AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology have significantly enhanced the capabilities of large text-to-image models. Despite these improvements, controllable image generation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowen Zhang , Cheng Yang , Xuanhui Liu

Referring remote sensing image segmentation is crucial for achieving fine-grained visual understanding through free-format textual input, enabling enhanced scene and object extraction in remote sensing applications. Current research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Keyan Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Chenyang Liu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Remote sensing image object detection (RSIOD) aims to identify and locate specific objects within satellite or aerial imagery. However, there is a scarcity of labeled data in current RSIOD datasets, which significantly limits the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Datao Tang , Xiangyong Cao , Xuan Wu , Jialin Li , Jing Yao , Xueru Bai , Dongsheng Jiang , Yin Li , Deyu Meng

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

In this work, we present SYSU-HiRoads, a large-scale hierarchical road dataset, and RoadReasoner, a vision-language-geometry framework for automatic multi-grade road mapping from remote sensing imagery. SYSU-HiRoads is built from GF-2…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ting Han , Xiangyi Xie , Yiping Chen , Yumeng Du , Jin Ma , Aiguang Li , Jiaan Liu , Yin Gao

Image captioning aims to generate natural language descriptions for input images in an open-form manner. To accurately generate descriptions related to the image, a critical step in image captioning is to identify objects and understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jinjing Gu , Tianbao Qin , Yuanyuan Pu , Zhengpeng Zhao

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

Region visual features enhance the generative capability of the machines based on features, however they lack proper interaction attentional perceptions and thus ends up with biased or uncorrelated sentences or pieces of misinformation. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Chiranjib Sur

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

Recently, remote sensing image captioning has gained significant attention in the remote sensing community. Due to the significant differences in spatial resolution of remote sensing images, existing methods in this field have predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Cong Yang , Zuchao Li , Lefei Zhang