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Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, which dividing the Earth surface into grid cells and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhongliang Zhou , Jielu Zhang , Zihan Guan , Mengxuan Hu , Ni Lao , Lan Mu , Sheng Li , Gengchen Mai

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

The emergence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has introduced new paradigms for global image geo-localization through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and reasoning-driven inference. However, RAG methods are constrained by retrieval…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bo Yu , Fengze Yang , Yiming Liu , Chao Wang , Xuewen Luo , Taozhe Li , Ruimin Ke , Xiaofan Zhou , Chenxi Liu

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

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

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

Worldwide visual geo-localization aims to determine the geographic location of an image anywhere on Earth using only its visual content. Despite recent progress, learning expressive representations of geographic space remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Angel Daruna , Nicholas Meegan , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

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

Modern feed-forward 3D reconstruction methods like VGGT predict pixel-aligned pointmaps in camera-centric coordinate frames. However, this choice of coordinate frame is not always optimal. We propose instead to predict pointmaps in upright,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Bharath Raj Nagoor Kani , Noah Snavely

The concept of geo-localization refers to the process of determining where on earth some `entity' is located, typically using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. The entity of interest may be an image, sequence of images, a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniel Wilson , Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

We propose R3GS, a robust reconstruction and relocalization framework tailored for unconstrained datasets. Our method uses a hybrid representation during training. Each anchor combines a global feature from a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xu yan , Zhaohui Wang , Rong Wei , Jingbo Yu , Dong Li , Xiangde Liu

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

The choice of representation for geographic location significantly impacts the accuracy of models for a broad range of geospatial tasks, including fine-grained species classification, population density estimation, and biome classification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Aayush Dhakal , Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Adeel Ahmad , Eric Xing , Nathan Jacobs
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