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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

In this paper, we focus on the task of multi-view multi-source geo-localization, which serves as an important auxiliary method of GPS positioning by matching drone-view image and satellite-view image with pre-annotated GPS tag. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Siyi Hu , Xiaojun Chang

We propose a novel end-to-end method for cross-view pose estimation. Given a ground-level query image and an aerial image that covers the query's local neighborhood, the 3 Degrees-of-Freedom camera pose of the query is estimated by matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Zimin Xia , Olaf Booij , Julian F. P. Kooij

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) estimates a camera's location by matching a street-view image to geo-referenced overhead imagery, enabling GPS-denied localization and navigation. Existing methods almost universally formulate CVGL as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunus Talha Erzurumlu , Jiyong Kwag , Alper Yilmaz

Despite significant algorithmic advances in vision-based positioning, a comprehensive probabilistic framework to study its performance has remained unexplored. The main objective of this paper is to develop such a framework using ideas from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Haozhou Hu , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

We propose and demonstrate a fast, robust method for using satellite images to localize an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). Previous work using satellite images has large storage and computation costs and is unable to run in real time. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Mollie Bianchi , Timothy D. Barfoot

Recent work by Suenderhauf et al. [1] demonstrated improved visual place recognition using proposal regions coupled with features from convolutional neural networks (CNN) to match landmarks between views. In this work we extend the approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Pilailuck Panphattarasap , Andrew Calway

Geographical data are generally autocorrelated. In this case, it is preferable to select spread units. In this paper, we propose a new method for selecting well-spread samples from a finite spatial population with equal or unequal inclusion…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-08-11 Raphaël Jauslin , Yves Tillé

In the context of social media, geolocation inference on news or events has become a very important task. In this paper, we present the GeoWINE (Geolocation-based Wiki-Image-News-Event retrieval) demonstrator, an effective modular system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Golsa Tahmasebzadeh , Endri Kacupaj , Eric Müller-Budack , Sherzod Hakimov , Jens Lehmann , Ralph Ewerth

The availability of the large-scale labeled 3D poses in the Human3.6M dataset plays an important role in advancing the algorithms for 3D human pose estimation from a still image. We observe that recent innovation in this area mainly focuses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Luyang Wang , Yan Chen , Zhenhua Guo , Keyuan Qian , Mude Lin , Hongsheng Li , Jimmy S. Ren

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

In recent years, street view imagery has grown to become one of the most important sources of geospatial data collection and urban analytics, which facilitates generating meaningful insights and assisting in decision-making. Synthesizing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Khawlah Bajbaa , Muhammad Usman , Saeed Anwar , Ibrahim Radwan , Abdul Bais

Video geolocalization is a crucial problem in current times. Given just a video, ascertaining where it was captured from can have a plethora of advantages. The problem of worldwide geolocalization has been tackled before, but only using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Parth Parag Kulkarni , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

While the satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS) is adequate for some outdoor applications, many other applications are held back by its multi-meter positioning errors and poor indoor coverage. In this paper, we study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Abm Musa , Jakob Eriksson

Humans can robustly follow a visual trajectory defined by a sequence of images (i.e. a video) regardless of substantial changes in the environment or the presence of obstacles. We aim at endowing similar visual navigation capabilities to…

Visual localization techniques often comprise a hierarchical localization pipeline, with a visual place recognition module used as a coarse localizer to initialize a pose refinement stage. While improving the pose refinement step has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ming Xu , Niko Sünderhauf , Michael Milford

Purpose: This paper presents a new dataset of Aerial Imagery from Robotics simulator (abbr. AIR). AIR dataset aims to provide a starting point for localization system development and to become a typical benchmark for accuracy comparison of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Rokas Jurevičius , Virginijus Marcinkevičius

Localization in already mapped environments is a critical component in many robotics and automotive applications, where previously acquired information can be exploited along with sensor fusion to provide robust and accurate localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lorenzo Montano-Oliván , Julio A. Placed , Luis Montano , María T. Lázaro

In this demonstration, we present Country Guesser, a live system that guesses the country that a photo is taken in. In particular, given a Google Street View image, our federated ranking model uses a combination of computer vision, machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Tim Menzner , Jochen L. Leidner , Florian Mittag

Species distributions encode valuable ecological and environmental information, yet their potential for guiding representation learning in remote sensing remains underexplored. We introduce WildSAT, which pairs satellite images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Rangel Daroya , Elijah Cole , Oisin Mac Aodha , Grant Van Horn , Subhransu Maji