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Retrieving images from the same location as a given query is an important component of multiple computer vision tasks, like Visual Place Recognition, Landmark Retrieval, Visual Localization, 3D reconstruction, and SLAM. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone

This paper describes a multi-modal data association method for global localization using object-based maps and camera images. In global localization, or relocalization, using object-based maps, existing methods typically resort to matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Takuma Sugino , Kazuhito Tanaka , Zijun Sha , Shintaro Nakaoka , Shintaro Yoshizawa , Kazuhiro Shintani

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

Accurately determining the geographic location where a single image was taken, visual geolocation, remains a formidable challenge due to the planet's vastness and the deceptive similarity among distant locations. We introduce GeoLocSFT, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qiang Yi , Lianlei Shan

We propose a novel learning-based formulation for visual localization of vehicles that can operate in real-time in city-scale environments. Visual localization algorithms determine the position and orientation from which an image has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Arthur Moreau , Thomas Gilles , Nathan Piasco , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Bogdan Stanciulescu , Arnaud de La Fortelle

Image geolocation is a critical task in various image-understanding applications. However, existing methods often fail when analyzing challenging, in-the-wild images. Inspired by the exceptional background knowledge of multimodal language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zhiqiang Wang , Dejia Xu , Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Yanbin Lin , Zhiwen Fan , Xingquan Zhu

Global geolocation, which seeks to predict the geographical location of images captured anywhere in the world, is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we introduce an innovative interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyang Dou , Zipeng Wang , Xumeng Han , Guorong Li , Zhipei Huang , Zhenjun Han

Despite significant recent progress on generative models, controlled generation of images depicting multiple and complex object layouts is still a difficult problem. Among the core challenges are the diversity of appearance a given object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Bo Zhao , Lili Meng , Weidong Yin , Leonid Sigal

Place recognition is an important technique for autonomous cars to achieve full autonomy since it can provide an initial guess to online localization algorithms. Although current methods based on images or point clouds have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Zhu Yu , Beinan Yu , Si-Yuan Cao , Minhang Wang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Lun Luo , Hui-Liang Shen

Previous methods for image geo-localization have typically treated the task as either classification or retrieval, often relying on black-box decisions that lack interpretability. The rise of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ling Li , Yao Zhou , Yuxuan Liang , Fugee Tsung , Jiaheng Wei

Cross-view geo-localization identifies the locations of street-view images by matching them with geo-tagged satellite images or OSM. However, most existing studies focus on image-to-image retrieval, with fewer addressing text-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Junyan Ye , Honglin Lin , Leyan Ou , Dairong Chen , Zihao Wang , Qi Zhu , Conghui He , Weijia Li

Visual relocalization, which estimates the 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) camera pose from query images, is fundamental to remote sensing and UAV applications. Existing methods face inherent trade-offs: image-based retrieval and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Boni Hu , Zhenyu Xia , Lin Chen , Pengcheng Han , Shuhui Bu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), such as GPT-4o, Gemini, LLaVA, and Flamingo, have made significant progress in integrating visual and textual modalities, excelling in tasks like visual question answering (VQA), image captioning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Junxiao Xue , Quan Deng , Fei Yu , Yanhao Wang , Jun Wang , Yuehua Li

Vision based localization is the problem of inferring the pose of the camera given a single image. One solution to this problem is to learn a deep neural network to infer the pose of a query image after learning on a dataset of images with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Carlos Lassance , Yasir Latif , Ravi Garg , Vincent Gripon , Ian Reid

Camera relocalization, a cornerstone capability of modern computer vision, accurately determines a camera's position and orientation (6-DoF) from images and is essential for applications in augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhendong Xiao , Wu Wei , Shujie Ji , Shan Yang , Changhao Chen

Geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location where an image was captured using observable visual evidence. Traditional methods achieve impressive results through large-scale training on massive image corpora. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinnao Li , Zijian Chen , Tingzhu Chen , Changbo Wang

The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Arsalan Mousavian , Jana Kosecka

We present a novel approach to geolocalising panoramic images on a 2-D cartographic map based on learning a low dimensional embedded space, which allows a comparison between an image captured at a location and local neighbourhoods of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Noe Samano , Mengjie Zhou , Andrew Calway

Determining the exact latitude and longitude that a photo was taken is a useful and widely applicable task, yet it remains exceptionally difficult despite the accelerated progress of other computer vision tasks. Most previous approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Brandon Clark , Alec Kerrigan , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Mubarak Shah

The extraordinary ability of generative models emerges as a new trend in image editing and generating realistic images, posing a serious threat to the trustworthiness of multimedia data and driving the research of image manipulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yirui Chen , Xudong Huang , Quan Zhang , Wei Li , Mingjian Zhu , Qiangyu Yan , Simiao Li , Hanting Chen , Hailin Hu , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , Jie Hu