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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

This paper introduces innovative solutions to enhance spatial controllability in diffusion models reliant on text queries. We first introduce vision guidance as a foundational spatial cue within the perturbed distribution. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zipeng Qi , Guoxi Huang , Chenyang Liu , Fei Ye

Worldwide Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth. This task has considerable challenges due to immense variation in geographic landscapes. The image-to-image retrieval-based approaches fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

Global visual geolocation predicts where an image was captured on Earth. Since images vary in how precisely they can be localized, this task inherently involves a significant degree of ambiguity. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nicolas Dufour , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton , Loic Landrieu

Place Recognition enables the estimation of a globally consistent map and trajectory by providing non-local constraints in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). This paper presents Locus, a novel place recognition method using 3D…

This work studies the challenging problem of acquiring high-quality underwater images via 4-D light field (LF) imaging. To this end, we propose GeoDiff-LF, a novel diffusion-based framework built upon SD-Turbo to enhance underwater 4-D LF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yuji Lin , Qian Zhao , Zongsheng Yue , Junhui Hou , Deyu Meng

In this work, we present LocGAN, our localization approach based on a geo-referenced aerial imagery and LiDAR grid maps. Currently, most self-localization approaches relate the current sensor observations to a map generated from previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Haohao Hu , Junyi Zhu , Sascha Wirges , Martin Lauer

Accurate visual localization is crucial for autonomous driving, yet existing methods face a fundamental dilemma: While high-definition (HD) maps provide high-precision localization references, their costly construction and maintenance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Li Gao , Hongyang Sun , Liu Liu , Yunhao Li , Yang Cai

Determining the exact latitude and longitude that a photo was taken is a useful and widely applicable task, yet it remains exceptionally difficult despite the accelerated progress of other computer vision tasks. Most previous approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Brandon Clark , Alec Kerrigan , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Vicente Vivanco Cepeda , Mubarak Shah

Worldwide visual geo-localization aims to determine the geographic location of an image anywhere on Earth using only its visual content. Despite recent progress, learning expressive representations of geographic space remains challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Angel Daruna , Nicholas Meegan , Han-Pang Chiu , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Location-aware applications play an increasingly critical role in everyday life. However, satellite-based localization (e.g., GPS) has limited accuracy and can be unusable in dense urban areas and indoors. We introduce an image-based global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Linguang Zhang , Adam Finkelstein , Szymon Rusinkiewicz

The large variation of viewpoint and irrelevant content around the target always hinder accurate image retrieval and its subsequent tasks. In this paper, we investigate an extremely challenging task: given a ground-view image of a landmark,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Zelong Zeng , Zheng Wang , Fan Yang , Shin'ichi Satoh

Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels? In general, the problem seems exceptionally difficult: it is trivial to construct situations where no location can be inferred. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Tobias Weyand , Ilya Kostrikov , James Philbin

Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification is an important issue in remote sensing field with extensive applications in earth science. In recent years, a large number of deep learning-based HSI classification methods have been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Ning Chen , Jun Yue , Leyuan Fang , Shaobo Xia

Visual geolocalization, the task of predicting where an image was taken, remains challenging due to global scale, visual ambiguity, and the inherently hierarchical structure of geography. Existing paradigms rely on either large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hari Krishna Gadi , Daniel Matos , Hongyi Luo , Lu Liu , Yongliang Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , Liqiu Meng

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) is a challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature, where a single low-resolution (LR) input LF image can correspond to multiple potential super-resolved outcomes. Despite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Wentao Chao , Fuqing Duan , Xuechun Wang , Yingqian Wang , Guanghui Wang

Transparent image layer generation plays a significant role in digital art and design workflows. Existing methods typically decompose transparent layers from a single RGB image using a set of tools or generate multiple transparent layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dingbang Huang , Wenbo Li , Yifei Zhao , Xinyu Pan , Chun Wang , Yanhong Zeng , Bo Dai

Image geolocalization is the task of identifying the location depicted in a photo based only on its visual information. This task is inherently challenging since many photos have only few, possibly ambiguous cues to their geolocation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim , Bohyung Han

Place recognition is a challenging problem in mobile robotics, especially in unstructured environments or under viewpoint and illumination changes. Most LiDAR-based methods rely on geometrical features to overcome such challenges, as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Jiadong Guo , Paulo V. K. Borges , Chanoh Park , Abel Gawel

Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, which dividing the Earth surface into grid cells and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhongliang Zhou , Jielu Zhang , Zihan Guan , Mengxuan Hu , Ni Lao , Lan Mu , Sheng Li , Gengchen Mai
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