English
Related papers

Related papers: Img2Loc: Revisiting Image Geolocalization using Mu…

200 papers

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

Image geolocalization, inferring the geographic location of an image, is a challenging computer vision problem with many potential applications. The recent state-of-the-art approach to this problem is a deep image classification approach in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Nam Vo , Nathan Jacobs , James Hays

Image geolocalization, the task of determining an image's geographic origin, poses significant challenges, largely due to visual similarities across disparate locations and the large search space. To address these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Narges Ghasemi , Amir Ziashahabi , Salman Avestimehr , Cyrus Shahabi

Image geolocalization is the task of identifying the location depicted in a photo based only on its visual information. This task is inherently challenging since many photos have only few, possibly ambiguous cues to their geolocation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim , Bohyung Han

Worldwide image geolocalization, which aims to predict the GPS coordinates of any image on Earth, remains challenging due to global visual diversity. Recent generative approaches based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tung-Duong Le-Duc , Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son , Minh-Son Dao

Street-level geolocalization from images is crucial for a wide range of essential applications and services, such as navigation, location-based recommendations, and urban planning. With the growing popularity of social media data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yunus Serhat Bicakci , Joseph Shingleton , Anahid Basiri

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

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 Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth. This task has considerable challenges due to immense variation in geographic landscapes. The image-to-image retrieval-based approaches fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

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

We examine the challenge of estimating the location of a single ground-level image in the absence of GPS or other location metadata. Currently, geolocation systems are evaluated by measuring the Great Circle Distance between the predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Michael J. Bianco , David Eigen , Michael Gormish

Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based intelligence. While recent advances in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyao Li , Runlong Yu , Qikai Hu , Bowei Li , Min Deng , Yang Zhou , Xiaowei Jia

Planet-scale photo geolocalization is the complex task of estimating the location depicted in an image solely based on its visual content. Due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), current approaches achieve super-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Theiner , Eric Mueller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels? In general, the problem seems exceptionally difficult: it is trivial to construct situations where no location can be inferred. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Tobias Weyand , Ilya Kostrikov , James Philbin

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

Worldwide image geolocalization-the task of predicting GPS coordinates from images taken anywhere on Earth-poses a fundamental challenge due to the vast diversity in visual content across regions. While recent approaches adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Pengyue Jia , Seongheon Park , Song Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Sharon Li

Fine-grained recognition distinguishes among categories with subtle visual differences. In order to differentiate between these challenging visual categories, it is helpful to leverage additional information. Geolocation is a rich source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Grace Chu , Brian Potetz , Weijun Wang , Andrew Howard , Yang Song , Fernando Brucher , Thomas Leung , Hartwig Adam

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

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

Global visual geolocation predicts where an image was captured on Earth. Since images vary in how precisely they can be localized, this task inherently involves a significant degree of ambiguity. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nicolas Dufour , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton , Loic Landrieu
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›