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This paper presents a new approach for the challenging problem of geo-locating an image using image matching in a structured database of city-wide reference images with known GPS coordinates. We cast the geo-localization as a clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Eyasu Zemene , Yonatan Tariku , Haroon Idrees , Andrea Prati , Marcello Pelillo , Mubarak Shah

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) matches query images ($\textit{e.g.}$, drone) to geographically corresponding opposite-view imagery ($\textit{e.g.}$, satellite). While supervised methods achieve strong performance, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cuiqun Chen , Qi Chen , Bin Yang , Xingyi Zhang

We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Scott Workman , Richard Souvenir , Nathan Jacobs

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

Visual grounding aims to localize the object referred to in an image based on a natural language query. Although progress has been made recently, accurately localizing target objects within multiple-instance distractions (multiple objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Minghang Zheng , Jiahua Zhang , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

In this paper, we present a neat yet effective transformer-based framework for visual grounding, namely TransVG, to address the task of grounding a language query to the corresponding region onto an image. The state-of-the-art methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Jiajun Deng , Zhengyuan Yang , Tianlang Chen , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Absolute Visual Localization (AVL) enables an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to determine its position in GNSS-denied environments by establishing geometric relationships between UAV images and geo-tagged reference maps. While many previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yibin Ye , Xichao Teng , Shuo Chen , Leqi Liu , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Zhang Li

Remote sensing visual grounding (RSVG) aims to localize objects in remote sensing imagery according to natural language expressions. Previous methods typically rely on sentence-level vision-language alignment, which struggles to exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ke Li , Ting Wang , Di Wang , Yongshan Zhu , Yiming Zhang , Tao Lei , Quan Wang

The task of cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the geo-location (GPS coordinates) of a query ground-view image by matching it with the GPS-tagged aerial (satellite) images in a reference dataset. Due to the dramatic changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Bin Sun , Chen Chen , Yingying Zhu , Jianmin Jiang

Classifying geospatial imagery remains a major bottleneck for applications such as disaster response and land-use monitoring-particularly in regions where annotated data is scarce or unavailable. Existing tools (e.g., RS-CLIP) that claim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Gilles Quentin Hacheme , Girmaw Abebe Tadesse , Caleb Robinson , Akram Zaytar , Rahul Dodhia , Juan M. Lavista Ferres

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

Camera relocalization, a cornerstone capability of modern computer vision, accurately determines a camera's position and orientation (6-DoF) from images and is essential for applications in augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zhendong Xiao , Wu Wei , Shujie Ji , Shan Yang , Changhao Chen

Visual localization is the problem of estimating the position and orientation from which a given image (or a sequence of images) is taken in a known scene. It is an important part of a wide range of computer vision and robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Ara Jafarzadeh , Manuel Lopez Antequera , Pau Gargallo , Yubin Kuang , Carl Toft , Fredrik Kahl , Torsten Sattler

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to locate the most relevant region in an image, based on a flexible natural language query but not a pre-defined label, thus it can be a more useful technique than object detection in practice. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Chaorui Deng , Qi Wu , Guanghui Xu , Zhuliang Yu , Yanwu Xu , Kui Jia , Mingkui Tan

In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to fine-grained cross-view geo-localization. Our method aligns a warped ground image with a corresponding GPS-tagged satellite image covering the same area using homography estimation. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Xiaolong Wang , Runsen Xu , Zuofan Cui , Zeyu Wan , Yu Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) enable text-guided object detection but degrade severely under cross-view scenarios where ground and aerial viewpoints differ in altitude, scale, and spatial layout. These geometric changes introduce systematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhipeng Liu , Chunbo Luo

LiDAR-based global localization is an essential component of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which helps loop closure and re-localization. Current approaches rely on ground-truth poses obtained from GPS or SLAM odometry to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chenghao Zhang , Lun Luo , Si-Yuan Cao , Xiaokai Bai , Yuncheng Jin , Zhu Yu , Beinan Yu , Yisen Wang , Hui-Liang Shen

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

In this work, we aim at an important but less explored problem of a simple yet effective backbone specific for cross-view geo-localization task. Existing methods for cross-view geo-localization tasks are frequently characterized by 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Yingying Zhu , Hongji Yang , Yuxin Lu , Qiang Huang

Global geolocation, which seeks to predict the geographical location of images captured anywhere in the world, is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we introduce an innovative interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyang Dou , Zipeng Wang , Xumeng Han , Guorong Li , Zhipei Huang , Zhenjun Han