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Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based intelligence. While recent advances in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyao Li , Runlong Yu , Qikai Hu , Bowei Li , Min Deng , Yang Zhou , Xiaowei Jia

Due to the advances in mobile computing and multimedia techniques, there are vast amount of multimedia data with geographical information collected in multifarious applications. In this paper, we propose a novel type of image search named…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jun Long , Lei Zhu , Chengyuan Zhang , Zhan Yang , Yunwu Lin , Ruipeng Chen

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

Large language models (LLMs) are being used in data science code generation tasks, but they often struggle with complex sequential tasks, leading to logical errors. Their application to geospatial data processing is particularly challenging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxing Chen , Weijie Wang , Sylvain Lobry , Camille Kurtz

Planet-scale photo geolocalization is the complex task of estimating the location depicted in an image solely based on its visual content. Due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), current approaches achieve super-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Theiner , Eric Mueller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

The application of machine learning (ML) in a range of geospatial tasks is increasingly common but often relies on globally available covariates such as satellite imagery that can either be expensive or lack predictive power. Here we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rohin Manvi , Samar Khanna , Gengchen Mai , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

This paper presents GeoAgent, a model capable of reasoning closely with humans and deriving fine-grained address conclusions. Previous RL-based methods have achieved breakthroughs in performance and interpretability but still remain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Modi Jin , Yiming Zhang , Boyuan Sun , Dingwen Zhang , MingMing Cheng , Qibin Hou

The image geolocalization task aims to predict the location where an image was taken anywhere on Earth using visual clues. Existing large vision-language model (LVLM) approaches leverage world knowledge, chain-of-thought reasoning, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Yuxiang Ji , Yong Wang , Ziyu Ma , Yiming Hu , Hailang Huang , Xuecai Hu , Guanhua Chen , Liaoni Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

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

Cross-view geolocalization, a supplement or replacement for GPS, localizes an agent within a search area by matching images taken from a ground-view camera to overhead images taken from satellites or aircraft. Although the viewpoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Lena M. Downes , Ted J. Steiner , Rebecca L. Russell , Jonathan P. How

Image geolocalization, the task of determining an image's geographic origin, poses significant challenges, largely due to visual similarities across disparate locations and the large search space. To address these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Narges Ghasemi , Amir Ziashahabi , Salman Avestimehr , Cyrus Shahabi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have empowered the advance in graph-structured data analysis. Recently, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 has heralded a new era in deep learning. However, their application to graph data poses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Runjin Chen , Tong Zhao , Ajay Jaiswal , Neil Shah , Zhangyang Wang

Recent advances in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly improve performance in image comprehension tasks, such as formatted charts and rich-content images. Yet, Graphical User Interface (GUI) pose a greater challenge due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziyang Meng , Yu Dai , Zezheng Gong , Shaoxiong Guo , Minglong Tang , Tongquan Wei

The prevalence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) raises important questions about privacy in an era where visual information is increasingly available. While foundation VLMs demonstrate broad knowledge and learned capabilities, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Neel Jay , Hieu Minh Nguyen , Trung Dung Hoang , Jacob Haimes

This paper proposes a novel method for vision-based metric cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) that matches the camera images captured from a ground-based vehicle with an aerial image to determine the vehicle's geo-pose. Since aerial images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Estimating the location where an image was taken based solely on the contents of the image is a challenging task, even for humans, as properly labeling an image in such a fashion relies heavily on contextual information, and is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jesse M. Johns , Jeremiah Rounds , Michael J. Henry

Cross-view geo-localization identifies the locations of street-view images by matching them with geo-tagged satellite images or OSM. However, most existing studies focus on image-to-image retrieval, with fewer addressing text-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Junyan Ye , Honglin Lin , Leyan Ou , Dairong Chen , Zihao Wang , Qi Zhu , Conghui He , Weijia Li

Image geolocation is a critical task in various image-understanding applications. However, existing methods often fail when analyzing challenging, in-the-wild images. Inspired by the exceptional background knowledge of multimodal language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zhiqiang Wang , Dejia Xu , Rana Muhammad Shahroz Khan , Yanbin Lin , Zhiwen Fan , Xingquan Zhu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models achieve strong generalization in robotic manipulation but remain largely reactive and 2D-centric, making them unreliable in tasks that require precise 3D reasoning. We propose GeoPredict, a geometry-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jingjing Qian , Boyao Han , Chen Shi , Lei Xiao , Long Yang , Shaoshuai Shi , Li Jiang

In geographic data videos, camera movements are frequently used and combined to present information from multiple perspectives. However, creating and editing camera movements requires significant time and professional skills. This work aims…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Wenchao Li , Zhan Wang , Yun Wang , Di Weng , Liwenhan Xie , Siming Chen , Haidong Zhang , Huamin Qu