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Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) plays a vital role in drone-based multimedia applications, enabling precise localization by matching drone-captured aerial images against geo-tagged satellite databases in GNSS-denied environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jian Sun , Kangdao Liu , Chi Zhang , Chuangquan Chen , Junge Shen , C. L. Philip Chen , Chi-Man Vong

Metric Cross-View Geo-Localization (MCVGL) aims to estimate the 3-DoF camera pose (position and heading) by matching ground and satellite images. In this work, instead of pinhole and satellite images, we study robust MCVGL using holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junwei Zheng , Ruize Dai , Ruiping Liu , Zichao Zeng , Yufan Chen , Fangjinhua Wang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Cross-View Geo-Localisation is still a challenging task where additional modules, specific pre-processing or zooming strategies are necessary to determine accurate positions of images. Since different views have different geometries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Norbert Oswald

Cross-view object geo-localization has recently gained attention due to potential applications. Existing methods aim to capture spatial dependencies of query objects between different views through attention mechanisms to obtain spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xingtao Ling Yingying Zhu

Cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the GPS location of a query ground-view image by matching it to images from a reference database of geo-tagged aerial images. To address this challenging problem, recent approaches use panoramic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

Nature disasters play a key role in shaping human-urban infrastructure interactions. Effective and efficient response to natural disasters is essential for building resilience and a sustainable urban environment. Two types of information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Hao Li , Fabian Deuser , Wenping Yina , Xuanshu Luo , Paul Walther , Gengchen Mai , Wei Huang , Martin Werner

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) involves determining the localization of drone images by retrieving the most similar GPS-tagged satellite images. However, the imaging gaps between platforms are often significant and the variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhongwei Chen , Zhao-Xu Yang , Hai-Jun Rong

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

For high-level geo-spatial applications and intelligent robotics, accurate global pose information is of crucial importance. Map-aided localization is a universal approach to overcome the limitations of global navigation satellite system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Chunxi Xia , Xuanbin Wang , Shaoquan Feng

Robust cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) remains challenging despite the surge in recent progress. Existing methods still rely on field-of-view (FoV)-specific training paradigms, where models are optimized under a fixed FoV but collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yang Chen , Xieyuanli Chen , Junxiang Li , Jie Tang , Tao Wu

Cross-view geo-localization is a promising solution for large-scale localization problems, requiring the sequential execution of retrieval and metric localization tasks to achieve fine-grained predictions. However, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zhuo Song , Ye Zhang , Kunhong Li , Longguang Wang , Yulan Guo

Cross-view localization and synthesis are two fundamental tasks in cross-view visual understanding, which deals with cross-view datasets: overhead (satellite or aerial) and ground-level imagery. These tasks have gained increasing attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ningli Xu , Rongjun Qin

Worldwide geo-localization involves determining the exact geographic location of images captured globally, typically guided by geographic cues such as climate, landmarks, and architectural styles. Despite advancements in geo-localization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Furong Jia , Lanxin Liu , Ce Hou , Fan Zhang , Xinyan Liu , Yu Liu

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

Cross-view geo-localization has garnered notable attention in the realm of computer vision, spurred by the widespread availability of copious geotagged datasets and the advancements in machine learning techniques. This paper provides a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Abhilash Durgam , Sidike Paheding , Vikas Dhiman , Vijay Devabhaktuni

Cross-view localization aims to estimate the 3-DoF pose of a ground-view image by aligning it with aerial or satellite imagery. Existing methods typically address this task through direct regression or feature alignment in a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Panwang Xia , Qiong Wu , Lei Yu , Yi Liu , Mingtao Xiong , Xudong Lu , Yi Liu , Haoyu Guo , Yongxiang Yao , Junjian Zhang , Xiangyuan Cai , Hongwei Hu , Zhi Zheng , Yongjun Zhang , Yi Wan

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

The goal of cross-view image based geo-localization is to determine the location of a given street view image by matching it against a collection of geo-tagged satellite images. This task is notoriously challenging due to the drastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Aysim Toker , Qunjie Zhou , Maxim Maximov , Laura Leal-Taixé

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

Ground-to-aerial geolocalization refers to localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to a reference database of geo-tagged aerial imagery. This is very challenging due to the huge perspective differences in visual appearances and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Teng Wang , Shujuan Fan , Daikun Liu , Changyin Sun