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Worldwide image geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location of an image captured anywhere on Earth, spanning street, city, regional, national, and continental scales. Existing methods rely on visual features that are sensitive to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Junchao Cui , Wenqi Shi , Shaoyong Du , Hang He , Xuanzi Ma , Hao Tang , Xiangyang Luo

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) between UAV imagery and satellite images plays a crucial role in target localization and UAV self-positioning. However, most existing methods rely on the idealized assumption of scale consistency between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yibin Ye , Shuo Chen , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Jisheng Dang , Qifeng Yu , Xichao Teng , Zhang Li

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) aims to accurately localize street-view images through retrieval of corresponding geo-tagged satellite images. While prior works have achieved nearly perfect performance on certain standard datasets, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Le Wu , Lv Bo , Songsong Ouyang , Yingying Zhu

Cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the locations of street-view query images by matching with GPS-tagged reference images from aerial view. Recent works have achieved surprisingly high retrieval accuracy on city-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen

Cross-view image matching for geo-localisation is a challenging problem due to the significant visual difference between aerial and ground-level viewpoints. The method provides localisation capabilities from geo-referenced images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Tavis Shore , Simon Hadfield , Oscar Mendez

Visual Geo-localization (VG) is the task of estimating the position where a given photo was taken by comparing it with a large database of images of known locations. To investigate how existing techniques would perform on a real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Gabriele Berton , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) is pivotal for GNSS-denied UAV navigation but remains brittle under the drastic geometric misalignment between oblique aerial views and orthographic satellite references. Existing methods predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Minglei Li , Mengfan He , Chunyu Li , Chao Chen , Xingyu Shao , Ziyang Meng

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) estimates the location of a ground image by matching it to a geo-tagged aerial image in a database. Recent works achieve outstanding progress on CVGL benchmarks. However, existing methods still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Chen Chen , Safwan Wshah

Cross-view video geo-localization (CVGL) aims to derive GPS trajectories from street-view videos by aligning them with aerial-view images. Despite their promising performance, current CVGL methods face significant challenges. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Manu S Pillai , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we present a high-performing solution to the UAVM 2025 Challenge, which focuses on matching narrow FOV street-level images to corresponding satellite imagery using the University-1652 dataset. As panoramic Cross-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xiaohan Zhang , Tavis Shore , Chen Chen , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Safwan Wshah

This paper tackles the problem of Cross-view Video-based camera Localization (CVL). The task is to localize a query camera by leveraging information from its past observations, i.e., a continuous sequence of images observed at previous time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Shan Wang , Hongdong Li

Geolocation is a fundamental component of route planning and navigation for unmanned vehicles, but GNSS-based geolocation fails under denial-of-service conditions. Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL), which aims to estimate the geographical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianwei Zhao , Qiang Zhai , Pengbo Zhao , Rui Huang , Hong Cheng

Geometric differences between cross-view images, such as drone and satellite views, significantly increase the challenge of Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL), which aims to acquire the geolocation of images by image retrieval. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wei Wang , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Shuang Wang , Yi Li , Pei He , Licheng Jiao

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

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Mi , Chang Xu , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Syrielle Montariol , Wen Yang , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

Cross-View Geo-Localization tackles the challenge of image geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments, including disaster response scenarios, urban canyons, and dense forests, by matching street-view query images with geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Panwang Xia , Lei Yu , Yi Wan , Qiong Wu , Peiqi Chen , Liheng Zhong , Yongxiang Yao , Dong Wei , Xinyi Liu , Lixiang Ru , Yingying Zhang , Jiangwei Lao , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang

To find the geolocation of a street-view image, cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) methods typically perform image retrieval on a database of georeferenced aerial images and determine the location from the visually most similar match. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Cross-view geo-localization aims at establishing location correspondences between different viewpoints. Existing approaches typically learn cross-view correlations through direct feature similarity matching, often overlooking semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Zhenyu Kuang

Cross-modal retrieval aims to measure the content similarity between different types of data. The idea has been previously applied to visual, text, and speech data. In this paper, we present a novel cross-modal retrieval method specifically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Numan Khurshid , Talha Hanif , Mohbat Tharani , Murtaza Taj

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) presents significant challenges due to the view discrepancy between oblique UAV images and overhead satellite images. Existing methods heavily rely on the supervision of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Haoyuan Li , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Li Mi , Huai Yu , Haijian Zhang