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Previous research has investigated the application of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in understanding 3D scenes by interpreting them as videos. These approaches generally depend on comprehensive 3D data inputs, such as point…

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Remote sensing (RS) visual grounding aims to use natural language expression to locate specific objects (in the form of the bounding box or segmentation mask) in RS images, enhancing human interaction with intelligent RS interpretation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yue Zhou , Mengcheng Lan , Xiang Li , Litong Feng , Yiping Ke , Xue Jiang , Qingyun Li , Xue Yang , Wayne Zhang

With the maturity of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, Large Scale Visual Geo-Localization (LSVGL) is increasingly important in urban computing, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the geo-location of a given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Qiang Zhai

Large Language Model-based Vision-Language Models (LLM-based VLMs) have demonstrated impressive results in various vision-language understanding tasks. However, how well these VLMs can see image detail beyond the semantic level remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Chenhui Gou , Abdulwahab Felemban , Faizan Farooq Khan , Deyao Zhu , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi , Mohamed Elhoseiny

We examine the challenge of estimating the location of a single ground-level image in the absence of GPS or other location metadata. Currently, geolocation systems are evaluated by measuring the Great Circle Distance between the predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Michael J. Bianco , David Eigen , Michael Gormish

The proliferation of visual sensors in smart home environments, particularly through wearable devices like smart glasses, introduces profound privacy challenges. Existing privacy controls are often static and coarse-grained, failing to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Shuning Zhang , Ying Ma , Xin Yi , Hewu Li

Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels? In general, the problem seems exceptionally difficult: it is trivial to construct situations where no location can be inferred. Yet…

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Three-dimensional geospatial analysis is critical for applications in urban planning, climate adaptation, and environmental assessment. However, current methodologies depend on costly, specialized sensors, such as LiDAR and multispectral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mai Tsujimoto , Junjue Wang , Weihao Xuan , Naoto Yokoya

Search engines enable the retrieval of unknown information with texts. However, traditional methods fall short when it comes to understanding unfamiliar visual content, such as identifying an object that the model has never seen before.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Zhixin Zhang , Yiyuan Zhang , Xiaohan Ding , Xiangyu Yue

In cognitive science and AI, a longstanding question is whether machines learn representations that align with those of the human mind. While current models show promise, it remains an open question whether this alignment is superficial or…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-27 Craig Sanders , Billy Dickson , Sahaj Singh Maini , Robert Nosofsky , Zoran Tiganj

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have fueled growing interest in automating geospatial analysis and GIS workflows, yet their actual capabilities remain uncertain. In this work, we call for rigorous evaluation of LLMs on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Qianheng Zhang , Song Gao , Chen Wei , Yibo Zhao , Ying Nie , Ziru Chen , Shijie Chen , Yu Su , Huan Sun

As the Virtual Reality (VR) industry expands, the need for automated GUI testing is growing rapidly. Large Language Models (LLMs), capable of retaining information long-term and analyzing both visual and textual data, are emerging as a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhenyu Qi , Haotang Li , Hao Qin , Kebin Peng , Sen He , Xue Qin

Context-aware emotion recognition (CAER) is a complex and significant task that requires perceiving emotions from various contextual cues. Previous approaches primarily focus on designing sophisticated architectures to extract emotional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yuxuan Lei , Dingkang Yang , Zhaoyu Chen , Jiawei Chen , Peng Zhai , Lihua Zhang

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

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant progress in integrating visual and textual inputs for multimodal reasoning. However, a recurring challenge is ensuring these models utilize visual information as effectively as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Estelle Aflalo , Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Tiep Le , Man Luo , Shachar Rosenman , Sayak Paul , Shao-Yen Tseng , Vasudev Lal

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in aligning visual and textual modalities, enabling a wide range of applications in multimodal understanding and generation. While they excel in zero-shot and transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hao Dong , Moru Liu , Jian Liang , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

Deep learning based localization and mapping has recently attracted significant attention. Instead of creating hand-designed algorithms through exploitation of physical models or geometric theories, deep learning based solutions provide an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Changhao Chen , Bing Wang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

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

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

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), despite their recent success, are hardly comprehensively tested for their cognitive abilities. Inspired by the prevalent use of the Cookie Theft task in human cognitive tests, we propose a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xiujie Song , Mengyue Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu , Chunhao Zhang , Yanyi Chen