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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a broad range of tasks but their knowledge and abilities in the geographic and geospatial domains are yet to be explored, despite potential wide-ranging…

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Image geolocalization, in which an AI model traditionally predicts the precise GPS coordinates of an image, is a challenging task with many downstream applications. However, the user cannot utilize the model to further their knowledge…

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This work tackles the problem of geo-localization with a new paradigm using a large vision-language model (LVLM) augmented with human inference knowledge. A primary challenge here is the scarcity of data for training the LVLM - existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ling Li , Yu Ye , Yao Zhou , Bingchuan Jiang , Wei Zeng

Predicting pedestrian behavior is the key to ensure safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. While deep learning methods have been promising by learning from annotated video frame sequences, they often fail to fully grasp the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jia Huang , Peng Jiang , Alvika Gautam , Srikanth Saripalli

While specialized learning-based models have historically dominated image privacy prediction, the current literature increasingly favours adopting large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) designed for generic tasks. This trend risks overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Alina Elena Baia , Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

The advances in Vision-Language models (VLMs) offer exciting opportunities for robotic applications involving image geo-localization, the problem of identifying the geo-coordinates of a place based on visual data only. Recent research works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Sania Waheed , Bruno Ferrarini , Michael Milford , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Artificial Intelligence have profoundly transformed the technological landscape in recent years. Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive abilities in reasoning, text comprehension, contextual pattern recognition, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Efthymios Tsaprazlis , Tiantian Feng , Anil Ramakrishna , Rahul Gupta , Shrikanth Narayanan

The application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing (RS) image understanding has achieved notable progress, demonstrating the basic ability to recognize and describe geographical entities. However, existing RS-VLMs are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Xianzhi Ma , Jianhui Li , Changhua Pei , Hao Liu

The application of machine learning (ML) in a range of geospatial tasks is increasingly common but often relies on globally available covariates such as satellite imagery that can either be expensive or lack predictive power. Here we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rohin Manvi , Samar Khanna , Gengchen Mai , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are good at recognizing the global location of a photograph -- their geolocation prediction accuracy rivals the best human experts. But many VLMs are startlingly bad at \textit{explaining} which image evidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohit Talreja , Joshua Diao , Jim Thannikary James , Radu Casapu , Tejas Santanam , Ethan Mendes , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu , James Hays

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse visual tasks, including image recognition, video understanding, and Visual Question Answering (VQA) when explicitly trained for these tasks. Despite these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Sivan Doveh , Nimrod Shabtay , Wei Lin , Eli Schwartz , Hilde Kuehne , Raja Giryes , Rogerio Feris , Leonid Karlinsky , James Glass , Assaf Arbelle , Shimon Ullman , M. Jehanzeb Mirza

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on complex tasks involving visual input with natural language instructions. However, it remains unclear to what extent capabilities on natural images transfer to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Chenhui Zhang , Sherrie Wang

Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) pose significant individual-level privacy risks by linking fragmented multimodal data to identifiable individuals through hierarchical chain-of-thought reasoning. However, existing privacy benchmarks…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to play an increasingly important role in our lives, providing assistance across a wide array of tasks. In the geospatial domain, LLMs have demonstrated the ability to answer generic questions, such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Pasquale Balsebre , Weiming Huang , Gao Cong

As Speech Language Models (SLMs) transition from personal devices to shared, multi-user environments such as smart homes, a new challenge emerges: the model is expected to distinguish between users to manage information flow appropriately.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yuxiang Wang , Hongyu Liu , Dekun Chen , Xueyao Zhang , Zhizheng Wu

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has heightened interest in their potential for multimodal applications that integrate language and vision. This paper explores the capabilities of GPT-4V in the realms of geography, environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chenjiao Tan , Qian Cao , Yiwei Li , Jielu Zhang , Xiao Yang , Huaqin Zhao , Zihao Wu , Zhengliang Liu , Hao Yang , Nemin Wu , Tao Tang , Xinyue Ye , Lilong Chai , Ninghao Liu , Changying Li , Lan Mu , Tianming Liu , Gengchen Mai

The integration of advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) methodologies and Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly enhanced the extraction and analysis of geospatial data from multilingual texts, impacting sectors such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Kalin Kopanov

The interactive nature of Large Language Models (LLMs), which closely track user data and context, has prompted users to share personal and private information in unprecedented ways. Even when users opt out of allowing their data to be used…

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Multimodal Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a transformative topic at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing, enabling machines to perceive and reason about the world through both visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Zongxia Li , Xiyang Wu , Hongyang Du , Fuxiao Liu , Huy Nghiem , Guangyao Shi

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah