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Semantic retrieval of remote sensing (RS) images is a critical task fundamentally challenged by the \textquote{semantic gap}, the discrepancy between a model's low-level visual features and high-level human concepts. While large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 J. Xiao , Y. Guo , X. Zi , K. Thiyagarajan , C. Moreira , M. Prasad

Foundation models have had a significant impact across various AI applications, enabling use cases that were previously impossible. Contrastive Visual Language Models (VLMs), in particular, have outperformed other techniques in many tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Aviad Barzilai , Yotam Gigi , Amr Helmy , Vered Silverman , Yehonathan Refael , Bolous Jaber , Tomer Shekel , George Leifman , Genady Beryozkin

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD), a complex multi-image inference task, traditionally uses pixel-based operators or encoder-decoder networks that inadequately capture high-level semantics and are vulnerable to non-semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xingwei Ma , Shiyang Feng , Bo Zhang , Bin Wang

Training a modern deep neural network on massive labeled samples is the main paradigm in solving the scene classification problem for remote sensing, but learning from only a few data points remains a challenge. Existing methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Haifeng Li , Zhenqi Cui , Zhiqing Zhu , Li Chen , Jiawei Zhu , Haozhe Huang , Chao Tao

Multimodal learning from document data has achieved great success lately as it allows to pre-train semantically meaningful features as a prior into a learnable downstream task. In this paper, we approach the document classification problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Souhail Bakkali , Zuheng Ming , Mickael Coustaty , Marçal Rusiñol , Oriol Ramos Terrades

A robust Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for Earth Observation should maintain consistent interpretation and reasoning under realistic input variations. However, current Remote Sensing MLLMs fail to meet this requirement. Trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rui Min , Liang Yao , Shiyu Miao , Shengxiang Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Shimin Di , Fan Liu

Remote Sensing Vision-Language Models (RS VLMs) have made much progress in the tasks of remote sensing (RS) image comprehension. While performing well in multi-modal reasoning and multi-turn conversations, the existing models lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xu Liu , Zhouhui Lian

Remote sensing image interpretation plays a critical role in environmental monitoring, urban planning, and disaster assessment. However, acquiring high-quality labeled data is often costly and time-consuming. To address this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tong Wang , Guanzhou Chen , Xiaodong Zhang , Chenxi Liu , Jiaqi Wang , Xiaoliang Tan , Wenchao Guo , Qingyuan Yang , Kaiqi Zhang

The development of accurate methods for multi-label classification (MLC) of remote sensing (RS) images is one of the most important research topics in RS. The MLC methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Ahmet Kerem Aksoy , Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh , Begüm Demir

Scene segmentation and classification (SSC) serve as a critical step towards the field of video structuring analysis. Intuitively, jointly learning of these two tasks can promote each other by sharing common information. However, scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Ye Liu , Lingfeng Qiao , Di Yin , Zhuoxuan Jiang , Xinghua Jiang , Deqiang Jiang , Bo Ren

Vision-langugage models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in computer vision (CV), yet their performance on remote sensing (RS) data remains limited due to the lack of large-scale, multi-sensor RS image-text datasets with diverse textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Johann-Ludwig Herzog , Mathis Jürgen Adler , Leonard Hackel , Yan Shu , Angelos Zavras , Ioannis Papoutsis , Paolo Rota , Begüm Demir

To better understand scene images in the field of remote sensing, multi-label annotation of scene images is necessary. Moreover, to enhance the performance of deep learning models for dealing with semantic scene understanding tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoman Qi , PanPan Zhu , Yuebin Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Junhuan Peng , Mengfan Wu , Jialong Chen , Xudong Zhao , Ning Zang , P. Takis Mathiopoulos

Recent progress in VLMs has demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks in the natural image domain. Motivated by these advancements, the remote sensing community has begun to adopt VLMs for remote sensing vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Congcong Wen , Yiting Lin , Xiaokang Qu , Nan Li , Yong Liao , Xiang Li , Hui Lin

Zero-shot classification of image scenes which can recognize the image scenes that are not seen in the training stage holds great promise of lowering the dependence on large numbers of labeled samples. To address the zero-shot image scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Chun Liu , Suqiang Ma , Zheng Li , Wei Yang , Zhigang Han

In this paper, we introduce the task of visual grounding for remote sensing data (RSVG). RSVG aims to localize the referred objects in remote sensing (RS) images with the guidance of natural language. To retrieve rich information from RS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yang Zhan , Zhitong Xiong , Yuan Yuan

The application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing (RS) has demonstrated significant potential in traditional tasks such as scene classification, object detection, and image captioning. However, current models, which excel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zilun Zhang , Haozhan Shen , Tiancheng Zhao , Bin Chen , Zian Guan , Yuhao Wang , Xu Jia , Yuxiang Cai , Yongheng Shang , Jianwei Yin

Satellite imagery differs fundamentally from natural images: its aerial viewpoint, very high resolution, diverse scale variations, and abundance of small objects demand both region-level spatial reasoning and holistic scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Emanuel Sánchez Aimar , Gulnaz Zhambulova , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yonghao Xu , Michael Felsberg

The application of visual instruction tuning and other post-training techniques has significantly enhanced the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in visual understanding, enriching Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingjie Xu , Andrew Estornell , Hongzheng Yang , Yuzhi Zhao , Zhaowei Zhu , Qi Xuan , Jiaheng Wei

This paper proposes Relational Similarity Machines (RSM): a fast, accurate, and flexible relational learning framework for supervised and semi-supervised learning tasks. Despite the importance of relational learning, most existing methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-08-03 Ryan A. Rossi , Rong Zhou , Nesreen K. Ahmed

Remote sensing imagery has attracted significant attention in recent years due to its instrumental role in global environmental monitoring, land usage monitoring, and more. As image databases grow each year, performing automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jielu Zhang , Zhongliang Zhou , Gengchen Mai , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Sheng Li , Lan Mu