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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

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

This work presents a method that is able to predict the geolocation of a street-view photo taken in the wild within a state-sized search region by matching against a database of aerial reference imagery. We partition the search region into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

The existing work in cross-view geo-localization is based on images where a ground panorama is matched to an aerial image. In this work, we focus on ground videos instead of images which provides additional contextual cues which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Shruti Vyas , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah

We propose a method for metric-scale monocular depth estimation. Inferring depth from a single image is an ill-posed problem due to the loss of scale from perspective projection during the image formation process. Any scale chosen is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyao Zeng , Yangchao Wu , Hyoungseob Park , Daniel Wang , Fengyu Yang , Stefano Soatto , Dong Lao , Byung-Woo Hong , Alex Wong

Navigation and localization of UAVs present a challenge when global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are disrupted and unreliable. Traditional techniques, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and visual odometry (VO),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haoling Li , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Wenjia Xu

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

Geolocation, the task of identifying an image's location, requires complex reasoning and is crucial for navigation, monitoring, and cultural preservation. However, current methods often produce coarse, imprecise, and non-interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Zirui Song , Jingpu Yang , Yuan Huang , Jonathan Tonglet , Zeyu Zhang , Tao Cheng , Meng Fang , Iryna Gurevych , Xiuying Chen

We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

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

Recent learning-based visual localization methods use global descriptors to disambiguate visually similar places, but existing approaches often derive these descriptors from geometric cues alone (e.g., covisibility graphs), limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Son Tung Nguyen , Alejandro Fontan , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

The problem of localization on a geo-referenced satellite map given a query ground view image is useful yet remains challenging due to the drastic change in viewpoint. To this end, in this paper we work on the extension of our earlier work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Sixing Hu , Gim Hee Lee

In this work we propose a method that geolocates videos within a delimited widespread area based solely on the frames visual content. Our proposed method tackles video-geolocation through traditional image retrieval techniques considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Salvador Medina , Zhuyun Dai , Yingkai Gao

Visual place recognition is a critical task in computer vision, especially for localization and navigation systems. Existing methods often rely on contrastive learning: image descriptors are trained to have small distance for similar images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 María Leyva-Vallina , Nicola Strisciuglio , Nicolai Petkov

The ground-to-satellite image matching/retrieval was initially proposed for city-scale ground camera localization. This work addresses the problem of improving camera pose accuracy by ground-to-satellite image matching after a coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora

An efficient method is proposed for refining GPS-acquired location coordinates in urban areas using camera images, Google Street View (GSV) and sensor parameters. The main goal is to compensate for GPS location imprecision in dense area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Mahdi Salarian , Rashid Ansari

In this work, we present a camera geopositioning system based on matching a query image against a database with panoramic images. For matching, our system uses memory vectors aggregated from global image descriptors based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Raffaele Imbriaco , Clint Sebastian , Egor Bondarev , Peter de With

Accurately recognizing a revisited place is crucial for embodied agents to localize and navigate. This requires visual representations to be distinct, despite strong variations in camera viewpoint and scene appearance. Existing visual place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Kartik Garg , Sai Shubodh Puligilla , Shishir Kolathaya , Madhava Krishna , Sourav Garg

Geo-localization from a single image at planet scale (essentially an advanced or extreme version of the kidnapped robot problem) is a fundamental and challenging task in applications such as navigation, autonomous driving and disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sania Waheed , Na Min An , Michael Milford , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

Classifying geospatial imagery remains a major bottleneck for applications such as disaster response and land-use monitoring-particularly in regions where annotated data is scarce or unavailable. Existing tools (e.g., RS-CLIP) that claim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Gilles Quentin Hacheme , Girmaw Abebe Tadesse , Caleb Robinson , Akram Zaytar , Rahul Dodhia , Juan M. Lavista Ferres