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Visual geo-localization demands in-depth knowledge and advanced reasoning skills to associate images with precise real-world geographic locations. Existing image database retrieval methods are limited by the impracticality of storing…

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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…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a promising ability in image geolocation, but they still lack structured geographic reasoning and the capacity for autonomous self-evolution. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenjie Yang , Yutian Jiang , Yutong Deng , Chenyu Wu

Geometric understanding - including depth and height perception - is fundamental to intelligence and crucial for navigating our environment. Despite the impressive capabilities of large Vision Language Models (VLMs), it remains unclear how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shehreen Azad , Yash Jain , Rishit Garg , Yogesh S Rawat , Vibhav Vineet

Image geo-localization is the task of predicting the specific location of an image and requires complex reasoning across visual, geographical, and cultural contexts. While prior Vision Language Models (VLMs) have the best accuracy at this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheyuan Zhang , Runze Li , Tasnim Kabir , Jordan Boyd-Graber

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ron Campos , Ashmal Vayani , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Rohit Gupta , Aizan Zafar , Aritra Dutta , Mubarak Shah

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

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown great promise in natural image domains, allowing users to hold a dialogue about given visual content. However, such general-domain VLMs perform poorly for Remote Sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Kartik Kuckreja , Muhammad Sohail Danish , Muzammal Naseer , Abhijit Das , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Next Location Prediction is a fundamental task in the study of human mobility, with wide-ranging applications in transportation planning, urban governance, and epidemic forecasting. In practice, when humans attempt to predict the next…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ruixing Zhang , Yang Zhang , Tongyu Zhu , Leilei Sun , Weifeng Lv

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) such as GPT-4o now demonstrate a remarkable ability to infer users' locations from public shared images, posing a substantial risk to geoprivacy. Although adversarial perturbations offer a potential defense,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xinwei Liu , Xiaojun Jia , Yuan Xun , Simeng Qin , Xiaochun Cao

Recent advances in multimodal large language models(MLLMs) have led to remarkable progress in visual grounding, enabling fine-grained cross-modal alignment between textual queries and image regions. However, transferring such capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Luxiao Xu , Jinliang Lin , Zonghao Guo , Fengxiang Wang , Xue Yang , Kaiwen Wei , Lei Wang

The fusion of language and vision in large vision-language models (LVLMs) has revolutionized deep learning-based object detection by enhancing adaptability, contextual reasoning, and generalization beyond traditional architectures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ranjan Sapkota , Manoj Karkee

This paper presents GeoAgent, a model capable of reasoning closely with humans and deriving fine-grained address conclusions. Previous RL-based methods have achieved breakthroughs in performance and interpretability but still remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Modi Jin , Yiming Zhang , Boyuan Sun , Dingwen Zhang , MingMing Cheng , Qibin Hou

Despite the impressive performance of Large Language Models (LLM) for various natural language processing tasks, little is known about their comprehension of geographic data and related ability to facilitate informed geospatial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Prabin Bhandari , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Dieter Pfoser

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet their capacity for image-grounded geolocation in open-world conditions, a task that is challenging and of demand in real life, has not been comprehensively evaluated. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhaofang Qian , Hardy Chen , Zeyu Wang , Li Zhang , Zijun Wang , Xiaoke Huang , Hui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Zeyu Zheng , Haoqin Tu , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Large Language Models (LLMs) inherently carry the biases contained in their training corpora, which can lead to the perpetuation of societal harm. As the impact of these foundation models grows, understanding and evaluating their biases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Rohin Manvi , Samar Khanna , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Visual grounding seeks to localize the image region corresponding to a free-form text description. Recently, the strong multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have driven substantial improvements in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Seil Kang , Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Seong Jae Hwang

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

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

Predicting the locations an individual will visit in the future is crucial for solving many societal issues like disease diffusion and reduction of pollution. However, next-location predictors require a significant amount of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ciro Beneduce , Bruno Lepri , Massimiliano Luca